Instructions
This process will help you take your resources (articles, books, videos, etc.) and find themes as supporting details or key concepts/points for the body of your essay.

  1. Download and review the Pre-writing Template. Be sure to review the model, provided at the end of the template, as you create your own.
  2. Review the rubric for assessment criteria.
  3. Read and review each of your selected resources (from 3.3 and 3.4) one at a time.
  4. Complete the pre-writing template by noting the key concepts or information related to your topic from each of the resources. Make sure you are writing the expert information from the resources, not your own opinion of it.
  5. Find themes that will help you describe or support your topic. This will require you to synthesize your information. Synthesis means combining parts into a whole; details into key topics. Look for the big ideas in one resource or several common ideas in multiple resources. It may be helpful to use different colors or different ways of marking to highlight similar ideas or points across resources. Group key points or details into these themes. These themes will become the supporting details for the body of your essay.
  6. Practice three kinds of citations using at least one of your resources: a long quote of 40 or more words, a shorter quote, and a paraphrase.
  7. Submit your template with the information, three themes, and three in-text citations using the Dropbox by the end of the workshop.

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