MLA Style Center

Summary: First, we focused on editing the Works Cited entries from your notes. Then, the students communicated their issue development in pairs.

Outline of our Research Process:

1. Basic Information -Wide reading
2. Causes -Wide reading
3. Further Examples or Case Studies – Close reading
4. Effects -Close reading
5. Solutions -Close reading

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 09 -Write, repeat

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 10 -Revising

Then, you learned about making helpful research questions and categorizing notes for your upcoming essay. Then, I shared Synthesizing your notes on 3 pages with your Work Cited list alphabetically in your Google Doc.

“Research is something that everyone can do, and everyone ought to do. It is simply collecting information and thinking systematically about it.” – Raewyn Connell

An example of Synthesized Notes:

Homework due by 1 p.m. the day before Workshop_07 (Structure Map/Synthesized Notes

1. Please write four or five questions related to your research topic, and categorize your three to four pages of notes in your Google Doc. Please include your references in the MLA style Works Cited after your synthesized notes. Please provide the details of the author’s name, date published, title, and publisher (or organization). I have edited and given feedback on your Google Doc. 

You are not researching new articles but categorizing the eight readings you have read and taken notes on already with MLA in-text citations. Please see the PowerPoint instructions attached below. 

When you construct each section or point, please keep in mind IDEA (Identify, Define, Examine, and Analyze) to ensure you have all four IDEA concepts to have outstanding paragraphs.

3. Required_ 1 Write & Improve essays. All essays are due at the end of the semester. Try at least three submissions of the same essay using the Write & Improve recommendations and put your essay through a spell checker like Grammarly or Language Tool. In the next two weeks, you might be too busy with your synthesized structure map and your first draft of essay writing to do this assignment, but from Workshop 07 or 08, you will have more time to focus on the Write & Improve essays.