Drafting: the Problem Section
I. Review the handout on citing and introducing citations:
II. Organize your note cards into two piles
Problem Solution
III. Organize your Problem note cards into three piles
Definition Cause Effect
IV. You can now organize these into piles for each of the topics of your paragraphs, as defined on your outline.
V. Now you’re ready to write your paragraphs.
a. Since we’re writing the body of the paper, we don’t have an introduction right now, we don’t need a hook or thesis statement.
Each of your body paragraphs should look like this
Transition to new section (introduce problem section). 2. Topic Sentence of paragraph. 3. Detail from one source (cite). 4. Detail from a different source (cite) 5. Concluding/Synthesis Sentence.
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1. Transition to new section (introduce problem section). 2. Topic Sentence of paragraph. 3. Detail from one source (cite). 4. Detail from a different source (cite) 5. Concluding/Synthesis Sentence.
Example from student sample paper:
1. The last idea that I have is to look at the way laws have been established, and then look into how to make them better or to go ahead and try to get them changed. 2. There are many loopholes which people, such as the president, and others can use to get by with spying on citizens without a warrant. Like Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist stated in an article from USA Today, “ No one here is rooting for terrorists or looking to give them loopholes. But some of the measures used to fight this war have crossed the line” (Domestic 3). 3. The law is proving to be very flexible. Since the events that happened on September 11, 2001, the FISA act has been altered in one form or another, to a total of five times to help with intelligence needs (Leahy 2). 4. There needs to be a law created, or a modified current law to figure out what the government can and can’t do to spy on potential terrorists.
Mr.Holt.....can you please do me a favor and put an example of a source card on your blog
yea putting a source card and/or a note card would be very helpful considering i dont really know the diffeence and i dont get how to make them
All a source card has on it is:
Source # === you give this number
MLA Citation. Use www.citationmachine.net or the Citation Tool on Thomson Gale or page R32 in the textbook or the blue pamphlet in the library.
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