Summary: The teacher provided a good example of a paper and its sources. The class focused on MLA in-text citations, strong topic sentences, and exploring writing more descriptive sentences.

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 10 – Revising

Homework due via email by 1:00 p.m. based on the feedback that the teacher provided to improve your formatting and in-text citations:

Do WAVE for your essay before emailing your 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_AEW1,” and type your paper directly in the document. Once finished your draft, please email it to me.

“Explanations” Attachments:

Session_11_Instructions-for-MLA-Writing_AEW1

Session_11_AEW1__MLA-Final-Assessment-Guidelines

Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9th Edition

MLA 9th Quick Guide

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

Student Sample MLA Paper on Brexit

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

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

3. Your paper needs to be typed with double-spaced lines, and at least 900 words and no more than 1,200, so please use the word count tool in Microsoft Word and type the word count number at the end of your paper before the Works Cited section, like this:

Word Count: 1,135

4. New! No more than four direct quotations in your paper. The teacher hopes to read your paper and not chunks of other writers’ work copy/pasted. 

5. Please make sure that your name, draft number, AEW course name, date, and title are in the attachment file  like this: 

‘Your Name’_AEW1_2nd Draft