The focus of our lesson today was punctuation: How to use commas, colons, quotations, and ellipses.
I hope your essays are going well. Rough copies will be checked tomorrow in all sections, but 8.5. For 8.5, introductions and first two arguments will be checked for completion.
The dead line for a poster submission is tomorrow! Tomorrow...tomorrow.......tomorrow. I want that to echo in the brains of those who may need to complete one.
Good luck writing. If you have questions place them in the comment box, and I will do my best to answer.
Have a good night.
I hope your essays are going well. Rough copies will be checked tomorrow in all sections, but 8.5. For 8.5, introductions and first two arguments will be checked for completion.
The dead line for a poster submission is tomorrow! Tomorrow...tomorrow.......tomorrow. I want that to echo in the brains of those who may need to complete one.
Good luck writing. If you have questions place them in the comment box, and I will do my best to answer.
Have a good night.
I'm having trouble writing my last argument and conclusion is there anyway we could work on it before school?
ReplyDeleteLeda,
ReplyDeletewe can work on it tomorrow in class. But remember, in a conclusion you restate your thesis and arguments briefly, then try to leave the reader with something new to think about. Something new, or an idea you think is important to conclude with.
Keep trying, and if you get nowhere there's always tomorrow.
Is it okay if I have 1038 words in my thesis? Or around that?
ReplyDeleteWow. 1038!
ReplyDeleteFor your Good Copy, try to cut out some of the words or ideas that you think might be repetitive or unnecessary. This is fine for now. Take a long break. Maybe tomorrow in class we can look for some words to cut.
Good work, Katie.
I was just wondering what poster you were talking about? Also, can I have some help tomorrow at lunch to work on what to call my arguments? It wouldn't take long. Thanks if you can or if you can't.
ReplyDeleteJulia,
ReplyDeletethe poster is for students who did not present with their groups. Students who did not present were asked to create a poster in place of their presentations.
Tomorrow at lunch is fine, but we should have time tomorrow in class.
Either works for me.
I was wondering how you would cite a PDF file. I don't really know which category it would it fall under (books, articles, or online sources). And the PDF file is statistics, it has title of article, name of publisher/organization and that's it.
ReplyDeleteGood question.
ReplyDeleteTreat a PDF as an online source. If there is no known author, then categorize it by title. So your Works Cited page would list the title of the article, the publisher/organization of the article, the date of the article, the medium of publication (web), and the date you retrieved the article from the internet.
Hope this is helpful.
For an In-text Citation, just place a piece of the title in parenthesis at the end of the sentence with the quotation or statistic. The period for the sentence will come after the parenthesis.