1. today’s goals Review the most important elements of our WTI essays
Discuss how to include media and format our documents for the final draft of the WTI essays
Introduce strategies for closed form prose structure

2. Class discussion- WTI review
What are the sections necessary for our WTI essays?
What else should we include in the final draft of our essays aside from text?
What are the grading criteria that will be used to evaluate our WTI essays?
What kind of information should we provide in the body paragraphs of our essays?

3. WTI- grading criteria Purpose & Structure – 20%
Informative Writing – 20%
Background research – 20%
Genre conventions – 20%
Mechanics – 20%

4. WTI important concepts
Thesis placement
Soft lead
Hard lead
Buried lead
Organization of body paragraphs
Inverted pyramid (most important to least important)
Chronological
General to specific
Formal writing style

5. WTI-multimodal document design
Top banner from website
Main media (picture or video)
(Optional) Supporting media (graphs or additional photos/videos)
(Optional) Side banners from website
(Optional) Author mini-bio
(Optional) Reply and comment section
(Optional) Ads and sponsored links
Note: make sure to cite any picture or banners you take from the web)

6. Class discussion – closed form prose structure
What are unity and coherence?
What are transition words?
What are some example transition words?
What are forecasting and fulfillment?

7. Closed form prose vocabulary
Topic sentence
Unity
Coherence
Transitions

8. Unity strategies What is the main idea of my essay?
Does every detail/piece of evidence support the main idea?
Are any sentences unnecessary or repeating old information?
Do the essay present any evidence that counters the thesis or related topic sentence?

9. Coherence strategies
What is the last sentence of my preceding paragraph? What is the first sentence of my new paragraph? Is there a clear link between these ideas?
What part of the essay am I currently writing/reading? Is that clear from the topic sentence of that paragraph?
Am I using transition words and phrases between paragraphs and ideas?
Am I repeating too many of the same transition strategies?

10. Transition words and phrases
First of all
moreover
In addition
Furthermore
Even though
In conclusion
Nevertheless
As well as
The second criteria
Despite
On the other hand
Building off of
Of equal importance
In the first place
Whereas
Initially
More importantly
Previously

11. Class discussion- evidence in writing
What kind of evidence did you provide in your body paragraphs?
When providing evidence or examples in the body paragraphs of our essays, how much evidence is enough?

12. Evidence in writing 2 main types for the rhetorical analysis essay:
Quotes
Paraphrase
One piece of evidence is never enough!
Don’t select any random quote or paraphrase to support your claims; pick the BEST example you can find that represents your evaluation

13. Wti – Body paragraphs Will usually follow inverted pyramid structure
Answer the 6 main questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how
Should use quotes or specific examples
In-text citations are not necessary, but every specific piece of information should have an attributive tag: “According to . . .”

14. Group activity- wti intro analysis
In your unit 2 groups
Share the hook and theses you have developed for your WTI essays. For each student tin the group:
Is the student using a soft lead, hard lead, or buried lead strategy?
How engaging is the student’s hook? Give this a rating on a scale of 1-5.
What rhetorical appeal(s) might be involved in the student’s hook?

15. Group activity- WTI peer review
Exchange drafts with one other student (3 students per group iff one person is missing their draft)
Read through the draft and answer the questions below
What kind of structure do the body paragraphs follow? (Consider: inverted pyramid, chronological, general to specific)
How many pieces of direct evidence are included in the essay? Would you describe these as quotes or paraphrase (give a number and identification for each)
Does the student provide information about the 6 main questions? (Who, what, when, where, why, and how) For each question word, give a brief answer.
Check the separation between each paragraph to evaluate the essay’s coherence (using the last sentence of one paragraph and the first sentence of the next paragraph). Does each have a smooth transition or use transition words?

16. homework WTI Draft 2 300+ words
Should include the essay’s introduction, body, and conclusion
Should have multimodal elements to mimic the design of your chosen publication
Due to Turnitin.com by Thursday 3-9