Revisions of your first essay are due Monday, November 4th. If you wish to revise your essay, follow these guidelines:
- Revising is not the same as editing. You want to correct typos and grammatical errors, but doing only this will not improve your grade.
- Be sure you're putting your texts into relationship with each other: put them in the same paragraph and perhaps the same sentence.
- Having done more work, go back to your first paragraph and think about your main idea ("thesis") that responds to the questions in the assignment.
- Use chapters from They Say on summary, quotation, analysis and transitions to add you.
- Consider meeting with me or going to the writing center B200 to work on your essay. You don't need an appointment to go to the writing center: just come at the beginning of a class hour.
- Turn in both the graded version of your essay and the revised version. I'll give you the new grade. If you go from a C- to an A, you get an A. I won't lower your grade no matter what, but if you don't do any real revisions, I won't raise it either.
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