Week 12: March 23-27

TURNING IN YOUR PAPER

Your paper is due at 10pm on Wednesday, even if you are absent. 
Late papers will be deducted as follows:

• 10% deduction -- submitted by Friday 3/27 at 10pm
• 20% deduction -- submitted by Monday 3/30 at 10pm
• 30% deduction -- submitted by Friday 4/3 at 10pm
• Papers will not be accepted after Friday 4/3

TURNITIN.COM INSTRUCTIONS

• Go to www.turnitin.com and log in to your account.
• OR if you do not have an account, click on Create Account in the upper right hand corner.  Scroll below the entry boxes (do not fill these out), and click on the "STUDENT" box.
• Enroll in the class with the following class ID and password:
  class ID: 8988191
• password: AmLit15
• If you are just starting an account, you will need to enter your personal information and click submit
• Find the assignment (American Voices Research Project), and click the SUBMIT button
• Be sure to choose "SINGLE FILE UPLOAD," not the "Copy and Paste Upload" (if you upload it with Copy and Paste, it will destroy your formatting and you will lose points!
• You may either upload the paper from Google Drive or you may download it from Google Drive to a Word Doc and then upload the Word Doc
• After you preview the paper, select SUBMIT
• Make sure you get the confirmation page before you close the window. 
• If you would like to check your plagiarism level, select “go to portfolio page” to view the originality report. On the portfolio page, click on the title of your paper to load the document viewer. Be sure to disable the pop-up blocker (on the upper bar of the browser, right click on ‘allow pop-ups for this website’). In the upper left corner of the document viewer, select the originality tab. It will give you a percentage of plagiarized material and it will highlight the plagiarized material.
• PLEASE NOTE – Turnitin.com sometimes reports titles and quotes as plagiarized, so do not be alarmed for a percentage of 10% or less. I only use this service as a tool to look at what is going on in your paper – a high percentage is not an automatic suspicion of plagiarism. It just means that I will take a closer look at your work.

WRITING AND REVISION RESOURCES

Revision and proofreading -- remember that re-vision is about seeing your work anew, so you need to take a break from your paper so that you bring fresh eyes to it so that you can recognize the areas where you need to add more detail, elaboration, thought, and commentary. Also, you might recognize areas that now seem out of place or unrelated. I will go to my grave saying that good writing happens on revision. So be sure to give yourself time to write and rewrite. Use the following revision steps to start with big picture concerns like depth of thought and development; then you can work on style and mechanics.

1. Drafting to express your point with four introduction options
2. Basic Paper Requirements Checklist
3. Peer Revision Checklist -- Big Ideas, Cohesion and Development
4. Self Revision Checklist -- Lead-Ins, Citations, Word Choice
5. Introductions and Conclusions
6. Quote Blending and Lead Ins
7. Revising wordiness into conciseness
8. Paragraph Logic and Transitions
9. Strong Verbs
10. MLA Formatting and Works Cited page  --
    To cite your interview, use the following format:
    Last Name, First Name. Personal Interview. Date of Interview. For example:
    Swift, Taylor. Personal Interview. April 16, 2014.
11. Here is the POWERPOINT that I have been using this week -- it is a long document but it goes in order of the revision activities we have completed
12. Rubric