1 2 EXERCISES ENGL 1302 HEILIG WARMUP EXQUISITE

1. 2 EXERCISES ENGL 1302 HEILIG

WARM-UP: EXQUISITE CORPSE • Take out a piece of paper • Write a three line story, one sentence per line of paper • Fold over the top two lines, pass it to a group member • Using only the first line, the next group member will continue the story for two lines

TRANSITIONS • The bridge between paragraphs • Does not need to be only one sentence! • Ties together your concepts Transition Check: Underline or highlight in green all the transitions in your literature review

TOPIC SENTENCES • Serve as mini-thesis statements for your paragraph • Should provide a forecast for the concepts your paragraph will cover Topic Sentence check: Circle or highlight in red any topic sentences that include the name of a source

TRANSITION + TOPIC SENTENCE EXERCISE • Tear a piece of paper into slips (one for every paragraph you have in your lit review) • On every slip, write down a topic sentence from your lit review (one per slip) • When you are done, shuffle your slips and give them to a partner • Partner, arrange the topic sentences in the order you think

SYNTHESIS CHECK • On your draft, cross or black out everything that is not: – Your thesis statement – A topic sentence – A transition – Synthesis How much of your literature review is left?

COMMON MISTAKES REVIEW: ACRONYMS • Explain any terminology which you think may not be familiar to the reader – or which they may not necessarily know you know. • Always write a long name in full the first time you use it, regardless of how well known it is. • After it’s introduced, you may use it in your essay as its abbreviated form. Example: Where the patient exhibits these symptoms it is appropriate for the doctor to request an electrocardiagram (ECG). An ECG may help to establish…

COMMON MISTAKES: USING NAMES • If you’re referring to a specific person in your text, always introduce them by their full name and then reference them by their last name. Example: – George Lucas envisioned a modernized version of “A Hero’s Journey. ” Lucas, a screenwriter for… • Always include the person’s relevance if they are not a household name Example: Isaac Asimov, a HUGO award winning novelist, states…

COMMON MISTAKES: LADIES, LADIES • Make sure that your terms for both genders are parallel • For instance: Men and girls are not parallel terms. Men and women are, or boys and girls. • When referring to human beings, remember that male and female are adjectives, not nouns – Bad example: The females enrolled in chemistry. – Good example: The women enrolled in chemistry. – Good example: The female students enrolled in chemistry.

COMMON MISTAKES: QUOTATIONS • Always introduce a quotation before you use it. A direct quote should not be a topic or concluding sentence. • Quotes should not be a standalone sentence—your own words should function as a frame either at the beginning, end, or both beginning and end of a sentence. • When writing slang or colloquial phrases, don’t use the air quotes to frame it, this makes it appear as if you are quoting someone and not crediting the source Example: In conclusion, “you win some, you lose some. ”

MECHANICS OF QUOTATIONS

COMMON MISTAKES: AFFECT VS. EFFECT Leah affected you by pushing you into a river. The end effect is that you are now in the river.

COMMON MISTAKES: IN-TEXT CITATIONS • If it’s not common knowledge, you need them! • Pgs. 127 -143 in First-Year Writing • Plagiarismmmmm • Also, your graders won’t know if you are synthesizing information