CWoD - SEDULOUS
Once you have corrected the rough drafting errors we looked at yesterday - including in-text/parenthetical citations in your work, following MLA format, and creating a Works Cited page (and Works Consulted page - if necessary) ... you should have produced a hard copy of your rough draft. If not, that is the first order of business today - all of our revising and editing will be done with pen/pencil ON that printed rough draft before we correct it.
The two things we are going to revise today ...
1) Transitioning all writing to 3rd person
This website will let you look at some examples that may help supercharge your writing:
Once you have corrected the rough drafting errors we looked at yesterday - including in-text/parenthetical citations in your work, following MLA format, and creating a Works Cited page (and Works Consulted page - if necessary) ... you should have produced a hard copy of your rough draft. If not, that is the first order of business today - all of our revising and editing will be done with pen/pencil ON that printed rough draft before we correct it.
The two things we are going to revise today ...
1) Transitioning all writing to 3rd person
- As we drafted, I said it would be OK in the rough draft to include 1st and 2nd person pronouns (and it was ... in the ROUGH DRAFT) ... but that is the first thing we are going to clean up. Academic writing centers on YOUR VOICE and KNOWLEDGE - however, since you are the writer and voice, you have no need for "I" or "me." If you make a statement, it is understood to be what you think already. Likewise, if you are making a statement, it is assumed that your reader is the audience and "you" is unnecessary as well.
- CIRCLE all 1st person pronouns in your paper and in the spaces between lines (Which is WHY we double space) revise the sentences to omit all elements of 1st person writing.
This website will let you look at some examples that may help supercharge your writing:
2) Verb tenses - all verb tenses (unless part of a direct quote) should likely be PRESENT tense
- underline ALL verbs (each sentence in your paper should have at least one, right?) and consider the tense of the verb ... if it is not present tense, revise it so that it is - along with other parts of the sentence that might need to be cleaned up to suit the change.
This website will help a little (maybe)...
Remember we are on a short period - so work quietly and productively. Return your printed rough drafts to me, with visible pen/pencil notes and revisions, before you leave.
