Jan. 15 class

Jan. 15 class

Use a coordinating conjunction and a comma for each:

1. My father loves kitchen gadgets.  He buys a new one almost every week.

2.  A few of the gadgets are useful.  Most of them just take up space.

3.  We ran out of space for them in the kitchen.  He started to store them in the living room.

4.  My mother asked my father to please stop buying gadgets. She would throw them out.

5.  Of course, Dad came home the next week with three new ones.  Mom wasn’t upset.

6.  Maybe she realized that buying little gadgets is harmless.  None of them cost a lot of money.

MLA

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of article. Name of Site. Version number. Name of

                institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation

 (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.

Create a works cited entry for “The School Lunch Wars.”

Create a timeline for “School Lunch Wars.”

OWL

Writing a Developed and Detailed Introduction

You know your introduction needs a clear thesis statement. But what else do you put in the paragraph? To answer that question, think about the purpose of an introduction:

• Introduce your topic
• Create interest
• Provide necessary background information
• Identify your main idea
• Preview the rest of your essay

Your thesis statement will identify your main idea and preview the rest of your essay. Remember that this can be either one or two sentences. You will probably place your thesis at the end of your introduction paragraph. You can use the other sentences in your introduction to introduce your topic, create interest, and provide necessary background information.

1.Determine what kind of paper you are writing:

• An analytical paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audience.
• An expository (explanatory) paper explains something to the audience.
• An argumentative paper makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with specific evidence. The claim could be an opinion, a policy proposal, an evaluation, a cause-and-effect statement, or an interpretation. The goal of the argumentative paper is to convince the audience that the claim is true based on the evidence provided.

If you are writing a text which does not fall under these three categories (ex. a narrative), a thesis statement somewhere in the first paragraph could still be helpful to your reader.

2. Your thesis statement should be specific—it should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.

3. The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of a paper.

4. Your topic may change as you write, so you may need to revise your thesis statement to reflect exactly what you have discussed in the paper.

Example of an expository (explanatory) thesis statement:

The life of the typical college student is characterized by time spent studying, attending class, and socializing with peers.

The paper that follows should:

• explain how students spend their time studying, attending class, and socializing with peer  
• Transitions between paragraphs:

The prescription from the doctor fed the festering infection, reinvigorating it in its winning battle against the child’s inner ear.  It was the third different antibiotic that the child’s family tried in an effort to relieve the pain for the two-year-old boy.  As the frustrated parents weighed the option for a fourth stronger antibiotic, they contemplated the question of how far they would have to go to silence the child’s agonized screams in the middle of the night.

During their deliberations, the parents came across a current study which recommended an ancient remedy: “Let it run its course” (Bioaphrodese 17). The report stated that continual use of more and varied antibiotics actually strengthened resistance of harmful bacteria, resulting in stubborn “superbugs” (Biophrodese 22).