MLA/APA Scavenger Hunt

Use the reference sheet to complete the practice at the bottom of this post. 

Reference

Practice

MLA Essay Template

Restoration and Writing Test Review

Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Notes and Practice

The slides below will walk you through the notes and practice activities over summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing.

Argument Essay Outline and Labeled Sample Essay

Argument Essay Articles

School Safety


Police Brutality


Student Debt


Body Image and Social Media

Argument Essay Assignment Packet

Argument Topic Activity/Brainstorm

In this activity, you will work with your group to explore the possible claims and issues involved in the provided prompts for our argument essay. This activity is meant to help you develop some background knowledge for each prompt and decide which prompt you would most like to write about. Below are the four articles over each of the four prompts.



Here is the handout we will work on in class. This is a graded assignment and should be turned in. If you are absent on January 10th, be sure to turn it in upon your return or attend tutoring for assistance in completing it.

Argument Thesis Notes

Argument Basics Notes

This quarter, we will be focusing on the essential question how can persuasion and rhetoric be used to manipulate our sense of morality and perception of reality? We will be examining how we can use rhetoric in an argument essay to prove and convince a reader we are correct and also reading texts in which individuals use lies, deceit, and persuasion to play on people's sense of right and wrong.

To begin our unit, we discussed the process of developing the general outline of an argument essay. You can find the fill-in-the-blank notes and the slides to go with them below.

College Essay Revisions and Formal Writing Expectations

On block day of this week, we revisited our college essay and discussed how we can use it as a baseline for the rest of the formal writings we will do this year. We began with reflecting on what we expect from teachers who read and grade our writing. Most classes gave answers regarding feedback, constructive criticism, and suggestions for improvement.

Ultimately, we expect our teachers to take time, care, and consideration when grading, not just slapping a number on it and calling it a day.



Then, we researched into what teachers and college professors expect of the writing their students submit. We did this using this article.

From here, we compiled a list of general advice we could give to someone regarding what to do when writing a formal paper.



Compiling all of this advice together, the most important point is this.

If you expect the professor to grade your work fairly and carefully, you should put the same amount of effort and care into preparing your essay!

With that in mind, we began compiling our "non-negotiables" for formal writing for the year. These are things that we all know make good formal writing and we should all be expected to do it.



With this in mind, we moved on to editing our college essays. You can access my specific feedback by viewing your document on Turnitin.com and then editing the document via Google Drive or the computer you saved the essay to. You should complete the reflection sheet below first and then move on to making specific revisions.



Then, you will email or Google share your revised essay with me using my school email address.