Even though I am a few states away, you've still got a golden opportunity to work on your research paper. Follow these steps and watch my awesome instructional video for guidance on how to do your work today.
- Log in to your CCS account and access your Drive. (CCS Email link above)
- Open up your outline. You will be adding everything into this document.
- For your thesis, use this formula:
- What is your topic?
- Add an active verb (Resource #2)
- What are you trying to prove?
- Add a transition word (Resource #2)
- What are each of your paragraphs going to be about?
- For example,
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- created
- a mythology for Great Britain
- by
- integrating his personal history, creating a new language, basing mythical races on real history, and writing a diverse series incorporating this fantastical realm.
- Finally, use your imagination to create an exciting sentence about your topic that would draw a reader's attention. Some ideas for that are:
- a mind-blowing fact
- a quote from someone famous
- the first line of a short narrative (aka anecdote)
- some zinger of an analytical comment
- Then, connect this attention-getter with your thesis using some well-structured and well-directed sentences.
- For the conclusion, you just do the introduction in reverse. Start out with a rephrased thesis and then work your way back out to a final send-off that relates to the opening remark.
- To find out more on writing an introduction and conclusion, check out this stick-people video!
- After you do all of this, go back and edit your outline sentences. You and I BOTH know that those sentences aren't all grammatically correct. Go ahead and fix them now before you loose a slew of points.
- Once you have finished editing your sentences, go back and edit your citations. You will need these for your Works Cited page at the end of your paper, so you may as well have it done correctly now.
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