As you revise your writing for the eight-page ENG 103 assignment, please consider the following steps:
1. Reflect on the thesis you plan to use for your final essay. What material from your current writing can support that thesis? You may want to highlight it somehow. You may also want to outline the "claims" that support your thesis in your current drafts. Of all the paragraphs you've written, you'll want to select the strongest and be sure that each topic sentences supports the overall thesis. The same is true for the evidence you plan to quote and cite.
2. Your essay will also have to demonstrate three new pages of research material. At this point, you should have already found *most*, if not *all*, of the articles and information you plan to incorporate into your essay. As with any text, it will be your responsibility to finish reading these sources, extract the information useful to you, frame that information, quote it, cite it correctly, paraphrase it, and evaluate it.
3. This essay will be an occasion for you to present:
* a paragraph with counter-arguments or critical thinking with counter-arguments
* a mixed voice introduction, conclusion, and/or critical thinking
* an analysis of visual material.
For today's lab and for your future revisions, you should take these steps one at a time. Since writing about research involves you composing new paragraphs, you may decide to start there. Likewise, you may want to begin cutting and pasting from your writing during the semester and figuring out where you plan to place information to support your thesis.
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