By Monday morning, your feedback and grade on your outline will be available for viewing on turnitin.com. You will have class 1 and class 2 to write your rough draft this week. Based on my feedback, the most common problems are students writing descriptively rather than argumentatively and not having dived deep enough into their research, resulting in vague generalizations in the outlines.
Remember that the Writer's Center (C307) is open and available to help you. The hours are:
Mondays: 9:10-2:35
Tuesdays: 8:50-3:50
Wednesdays: 8:50-3:50
Thursdays: 8:00-2:30
Fridays: 12:20-1 (lunch)
Drop in whenever it is open, or sign up for a conference up to one day in advance. The Writer's Center is open every day at lunch, every Tuesday open period, and every open assembly period. You may tell them that papers must be in past tense throughout, the thesis should come at the end of introduction, topic sentences should be in the form of mini-thesis statements, it should conform to Chicago style with footnotes, and you may not write with "I, we, me, you" and should use strong verbs throughout (documents do not "talk" or "say" anything).
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