 | Think deeply. Take time to think. Make connections.
Show your insight and understanding of Romanticism in what you write.
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| Get in touch with your own feelings about the topic of each
paragraph, and about Romanticism in specific in the movie you chose.
Let those feelings come across to the reader so that your reader sees what
you see and feels what you feel. |
| Write clear topic sentences for your reader to follow your argument |
| Include transitions |
| Select quality details which are important and relevant. Be
specific. |
| Describe... Show rather than tell. |
| Comment about what those details show |
| It is better to introduce an idea or a reason and prove it
completely than to introduce three ideas and not develop them. |
|
"Voice: Keep
your language honest. Your
paper should sound like you (Miss Carnie's note:--but you--writing to an
academic audience). Understand,
paraphrase, absorb, and
express in your own words
the information you have
researched. Avoid phony
language.
" (from Thompson Gale's reference information about how to write a
successful research paper) |
| Make sure you make a Xerox of any page you quote from. Make
sure you print only that page if you are taking something off the
Internet. |
| For the Works Cited page you are going to create, write down
the URL if you have to cut and paste the information into a Word Document.
(Get the whole URL.. not just part.) Write down your access date.
Check for a Last Update date. Look for an author (or corporate
author)if there is one. Write down the title of that "page" if there
is a title. |
| Cite the quote or paraphrase following the directions outlined
here. (If you don't cite your source, you will receive no
credit because of plagiarism.) |
Read that
article about
writing your first draft and revising it. )
Make sure that each body paragraph has a transition of some kind, a topic sentence about an aspect of
Romanticism, and then start putting in your concrete details (facts or
quotes.) Introduce your quotes; don't just stick them in there. After your quote or fact, put in your
own thoughts, (your commentary), helping the reader understand what that
quote or fact proves. Your commentary should reinforce what your topic sentence is saying, as
well as providing the vehicle for you to explain why the Romantics liked
that aspect so much... why it was important to them. Keep adding
concrete details and commentary until you have proved your topic sentence
well--Probably about three good proofs about the major component of
Romanticism that paragraph deals with--. Finish with a
conclusion sentence that ties up the paragraph and makes your most important
point about that aspect of Romanticism. Then repeat the process with
the next paragraph.
Pay special attention to the discussion on transitions below.
One of your grades over the project is over organization. Transitions
really help your organization improve. Also, look at the
evaluation page if you have questions about what good organization (or
ideas or conventions) looks like.
For more
info about using transitions well
Easy!!
One step at a time.. 
