Questions to answer about your revision plans:

1. What is your topic? (The overall one, ie; obesity in America, or new uses of technology, or the drive for success.)

2. What is the FOCUS of your topic (ie: obese teenagers and fast food, or how Wii consoles can be redirected as power sources for national security, or how the “success drive” can be measured six different ways.)

3. What is your thesis? Does it reflect your current topic AND your actual focus?

4. Which point do you spend the most time explaining/supporting?

5. Which point have you spent the least amount explaining/supporting?

6. Is the balance right, or do you need more support somewhere it’s not?

7. Check every place you use cited material, whether quoted or paraphrased.

          Think of it as a dialogue: you and the source.  That means you, the author,  must respond  in some way to every piece of outside information in your paper. You can:

·         Explain or interpret  the material the way you want your reader to understand it.                

·         Question some aspect of the material.   

·         Disagree with some aspect of the material. 

·         Discuss or highlight some aspect of the material.

Yes, every single time.  And if you have not cited something, be sure you do!

   8. Write down the revision plans you made based on the reading for today: ideas to help you revise .

Turn these answers in with your final paper on Thursday!