Writing Project 4 Revision
- Look at your thesis. Does it reflect the role you are adopting? What is that role, and is it appropriate for a researched argument? How might you bring your role into the thesis more?
- What are you asking your readers to do in your paper? Possibilities include learn something new, change their attitudes or beliefs, take some kind of action. How might you reflect this goal in your thesis statement?
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- What points need to be made to prove/support your thesis? How do these reasons/claims/points support your thesis? How can you connect them to your thesis more fully (without bringing in a road map)?
- Look at your current paragraphs and underline the point you are making in each. Does each have a clear point? What point do you need to bring in? How can you use these points to appeal to your readers?
- Have you addressed opposing viewpoints or counterarguments? What are some of these for your issue? It might not be completely against your viewpoint, but a different idea of how to handle the issue. What objections might a reader have to your argument, and where do you need to address those concerns?
- There are many ways to organize an argument. Based on your goal, role, and thesis, what would be the best way to organize yours? (Ex: chronology, description, definition, cause/effect, process explanation, pro/con, multiple perspectives, etc. see the PowerPoint for full list)
- Consider how each point and idea in your paper connects to each other and to the thesis. What does this tell you about organization? How does this imply transition options?
- Read through to make sure your logic and explanation are sound, and that you’re not using any logical fallacies accidentally that might make it seem as though you are engaging in lazy argument. Did you find any? What changes need to be made?
- What is a reader going to need you to explain? Consider an unfamiliar reader and your intended audience, and consider where you might need to put more information, explain more, or better integrate sources. Mark these places and note what needs to be included.
- Consider each individual paragraph/point and decide what order they need to be addressed in your researched argument organizationally. Number them, and state why.
- Review your incorporation of sources. Are you introducing each source with a summary? Are you explaining and connecting your sources to the point you are making? Review the quote sandwich and PowerPoint on source incorporation for help with this, and rewrite a paragraph of your paper to properly incorporate the source you are using.
