Today we are in the English Lab. You have the period to work. IF you turned in your section draft on Friday, then you can retrieve a reviewed copy of it by logging into your OneNote folder and going to the Paper Drafts section. It should be saved in there. Open it, look over any notes/marks on it, and proceed with revision. (It may help to have your screen split with the PDF document and the working draft side by side.) If you do not have the draft in your section, then you probably did not submit it last Friday or you have not shared your notebook with Mr. Tucker.
On many of your papers, I commented to check out the Comma Rules post on this blog. Just scroll down this page to the May 9 entry, and there it is. They are numbered 1-7 for easy reference. Here is some general feedback about common issues seen with Section 2, which is what most of you turned in:
-You must make reference to specific facts/information. Several of you just discussed your personal feelings about a career path. You need to include specific information. Salary, education fees, job demand data, etc.
-If you mention debt from student loans or from business loans, you must mention how long it will likely take to pay those loans off.
-Most of you gave a brief overview of what your chosen career does, but you need to also go into more detail in a following paragraph with a more detailed look at the typical workday in that profession. A reader should feel like he has a solid grasp of the what someone with that job does after reading this section. Yes--part of Section 2 is providing a career profile of the career you have focused on. Don't just mention it.
-You can take a paragraph to mention your plans regarding spouse, kids, hobbies, etc. Do NOT make a whole paper about this!
All along, you have been instructed to keep track of your sources. With a research paper, you MUST tell where you got any information that you make reference to in the text. In English classes, people usually use the MLA In-Text Citation style of identifying where you got your information. A research paper without any real research is, well, not a research paper. A research paper with research findings that are mentioned but the author doesn't tell exactly where that info came from is, well, plagiarized.
* You have already been told that the last page(s) of you project will be a works cited page. This is simply an alphabetical listing (by author's last name) of all the different sources used/referenced in your paper. There is a very specific way to write out the needed information from each source. (Most of the papers you write in college will require some method of citation.) The easiest way to follow the correct MLA citation format is to use the web site www.easybib.com.
* The part that may be new to some of you is in-text citation. When you are using info from a source, directly or indirectly, then at that spot in the paper you need to indicate whose information that is. You have a listing of all your sources on the works cited page already, so all you do within the paper, at those spots, is write the author's last name, as well as a page number, if from a book or article. You put that info in parenthesis.
Additional info HERE.
On many of your papers, I commented to check out the Comma Rules post on this blog. Just scroll down this page to the May 9 entry, and there it is. They are numbered 1-7 for easy reference. Here is some general feedback about common issues seen with Section 2, which is what most of you turned in:
-You must make reference to specific facts/information. Several of you just discussed your personal feelings about a career path. You need to include specific information. Salary, education fees, job demand data, etc.
-If you mention debt from student loans or from business loans, you must mention how long it will likely take to pay those loans off.
-Most of you gave a brief overview of what your chosen career does, but you need to also go into more detail in a following paragraph with a more detailed look at the typical workday in that profession. A reader should feel like he has a solid grasp of the what someone with that job does after reading this section. Yes--part of Section 2 is providing a career profile of the career you have focused on. Don't just mention it.
-You can take a paragraph to mention your plans regarding spouse, kids, hobbies, etc. Do NOT make a whole paper about this!
All along, you have been instructed to keep track of your sources. With a research paper, you MUST tell where you got any information that you make reference to in the text. In English classes, people usually use the MLA In-Text Citation style of identifying where you got your information. A research paper without any real research is, well, not a research paper. A research paper with research findings that are mentioned but the author doesn't tell exactly where that info came from is, well, plagiarized.
* You have already been told that the last page(s) of you project will be a works cited page. This is simply an alphabetical listing (by author's last name) of all the different sources used/referenced in your paper. There is a very specific way to write out the needed information from each source. (Most of the papers you write in college will require some method of citation.) The easiest way to follow the correct MLA citation format is to use the web site www.easybib.com.
* The part that may be new to some of you is in-text citation. When you are using info from a source, directly or indirectly, then at that spot in the paper you need to indicate whose information that is. You have a listing of all your sources on the works cited page already, so all you do within the paper, at those spots, is write the author's last name, as well as a page number, if from a book or article. You put that info in parenthesis.
Additional info HERE.