Students submitted Vocabulary Energizers Chapter 5.
Mr. Stone gave an introductory lecture on drafting an expository research report.
Your paper will have a minimum of seven paragraphs. You will begin tonight by writing your thesis and the first two body paragraphs of your paper.
Introduction
* Make the general answer to your primary research question your thesis statement.
(Remember that you are writing an expository paper, not a persuasive paper. Your paper's thesis will not express an opinion; rather, it will express a general answer to your primary research question in one declarative sentence.
*Start with just your thesis.
*Write the rest of your introduction once you have finished writing the rest of your paper (days from now).
Body Paragraphs
*Follow your outline.
*Feel free to make adjustments to your outline as you draft.
*Use a ratio of two sentences of concrete details (CDs) to one sentence of commentary (CM): 2CDs:1CM. We will refer to this combination of concrete details and commentary as a chunk.
*Include three "chunks" in each body paragraph.
Body Paragraph Pattern
TS (topic sentence)
CD
CD
CM
CD
CM
CD
CM
CD
CD
CS (closing sentence)/TrS (transitional sentence)
Commentary in this expository paper is not like the commentary in a persuasive paper, such as your book reviews. The commentary in your book reviews expressed your interpretation/analysis of the book. The commentary in your factual report clarifies the meaning of the concrete details and their connection(s) to the paragraph's topic sentence and other concrete details.
Be sure to provide your readers with worthwhile content. Make your concrete details as specific as possible.
Students received a printout of their third quarter grade.
Homework: Type out your thesis and two body paragraphs of your research report.
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