Key Elements and Your Essay

Today your Professionalism essay is due.  Open the file on a computer. "Save As" the file with "Highlighted" added to the file name.

Now your are going to highlight the key elements of your essay according to the following instructions:

1. Make the title red.

2. Make the hook blue.

3. If you have one sentence that states your point (thesis) make it yellow.

4. Make the main point of each body paragraph green.

5. Make your final sentence (the clincher) bold.

6. If you have any transition words or phrases that help connect ideas between paragraphs, underline them.

When you are done, go to our class in Moodle and click on the Forum to Turn In Highlighted Professionalism Paper. Follow the directions and attach the highlighted copy of your paper there.

Then you should print the final version of your paper to hand in with the blue rubric (on the back of the prompt).

To keep you thinking about the relationship between the key elements of a genre and effective writing (rhetoric in action), our next two writing projects involve another genre that none of us has written before.

Look at Kickstarter.com.

Some projects I've found....#1 and #2 and #3 and #4.

I collect your daybooks.

Homework:

1. Spend some time tonight on the Kickstarter website. Figure out how to look at current projects and old projects (play with the search tool). See if anybody from Nebraska has created a Kickstarter. See if there's anything you would spend money on. Find out what you have to do to put a project up.