A reminder and a few bits of valuable information...
If you submitted a rough draft for out of class essay #1, please remember to attach it to the back of your final draft before submitting on Wednesday.
As you are completing your final editing and proofreading of out of class essay #1, please consider the following:
- Check for unacceptable errors as well as for other sentence level errors mentioned on the bottom half of your handout on unacceptable errors.
- Underline your thesis statement.
- Eliminate wordiness and repetitiveness.
- Write clear transitions between paragraphs.
- Give your essay a title. Center it and do not type it in all caps, do not underline it, do not type it in a different font. and do not put quotations around it.
- Be sure each paragraph has a concise, specific and focused topic sentence and discusses one main topic only.
- Run a spell check program.
- Type your last name and the page number in the upper right hand corner of each page.
- Since it is a narrative AND an analysis essay, it is perfectly acceptable to use the pronoun "I" but do not add unnecessary words to your sentences such as "I think" or "I believe." For example, do not write: I think my grandmother's house was the truest home I experienced in my childhood. Instead you would write: My grandmother's house was the truest home I experienced in my childhood.
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