Summary: We worked on specific academic writing issues for the MLA introduction of two paragraphs, the entire paper, and you spoke about your synthesized research in pairs. I appreciated your writing questions that helped others too.

 

Homework due via email 01/18/2024 at 10 AM before class if you were on-time and I have given you feedback by Wednesday. If not, there will be two days time before your 2nd draft check:

Do WAVE for your essay before emailing your second MLA draft!

W = Put your paper through MLA Essay Write & Improve

A = MLA Style -Owl Purdue

V = Veritus Certify! Check against Plagiarism -Leander Hughes

E = Check all Explanations attachments, download “Instructions-for-MLA-Writing_AEW2,” and type your paper directly in the document. Once finished your draft, please email it to me.

“Explanations” Attachments:

MLA Sample Paper on Propaganda (Same as the Synthesized Notes Sample)

OWL-Purdue-MLA-9th_PPt-1Download

Student Sample MLA Paper on Brexit

Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9th Edition

MLA 9th Quick Guide

1. Please download the ‘MLA and Works Cited’ MS Word document attached below and type directly in the paper.

2. Using your ideas from the five questions, you have made and five articles you have taken notes on, write your essay. Please refer to the formatting guidelines and MLA Sample Paper also attached below.

3. If you are referring to your readings and it is not your original idea, please do an in-text citation of the author’s last name and page or paragraph number like this (Suzuki 22) or (Tanaka par. 3) at the end of the sentence before the period. 

4. Your paper needs to be typed with double-spaced lines, and at least 1,100 words and no more than 1,500, so please use the word count tool in Microsoft Word and type the word count number at the end of your paper before the Sources Cited section like this:

An option to do Write & Improve practice essay:

Five improved essays are due by 01/31/2024. You can choose the essays and the time of writing freely, but write and improve on no more than one essay each week, and try to improve your score.