ENG001 Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking
Literature Review 2nd Draft
Make sure you access the feedback you were given on the 1st drafts of your essay. Open your document to view them. These took me a little while to get through because I give you a lot of feedback. In your 2nd drafts I look closely at your data and your introduction of your sources.
Directions (please read):
Your draft must include at least six full pages of your essay.
Revise your first draft and then add the discussion of one or more research questions that you had not included in your first draft.
Do not include a visual in this draft. If you want feedback on a potential visual you will use, put it at the very end of your essay so that it doesn’t interfere with your page count.
Make sure you add direct quotes from your sources into the discussion of your research questions.
Your drafts are run through Turnitin to check for plagiarism. I want you to see early on in the writing process of this essay whether your writing is too similar to what your sources say. You are not penalized in any way if your draft has some similarity. The direct quotes should be exactly similar to what is stated in your sources; however, the paraphrased portions of your essay (where you summarize what the source says when not using direct quotes) should not be similar. You can access your similarity report by going to the assignment submission link for each of the drafts you uploaded and click on the Turnitin document listed underneath the directions for the assignment. You can’t check it in the grade book portion of Canvas. This process is to help you before you submit your final drafts. You cannot revise any plagiarism after you submit your final drafts. Email me if you need more help on this.
Tips for the 2nd Draft:
Avoid long quotes (longer than two lines of text). Try to summarize what the author is saying in your own words and provide the quoted material of critical statements by the author.
Add direct quotes to your discussion of your research questions. This provides examples of what your sources say about the topic.
Formally introduce your sources before you begin using them.
Example:
BAD One million people in the world will experience breaking a bone in their body. Most of these people will see a doctor and get the appropriate treatment (Smith).
GOOD According to Mark Smith in his article “Bones Will Be Broken” published in the Journal of Medicine in 2016, one million people in the world will experience breaking a bone in their body.
Add in-text citations when you use quoted material:
According to Mark Smith in his article “Bones Will Be Broken” published in the Journal of Medicine in 2016, one million people in the world will experience breaking a bone in their body. Most of these people will see a doctor and get the appropriate treatment. Smith states “some people may not realize they broke a bone and let it heal naturally” (para 3). He goes on to say that in many cases, broken bones can heal if not set. Feet bones are commonly broken and not placed into a cast.
Make sure you “unpack” the quote. Discuss what the author is saying in his or her quote:
Most of these people will see a doctor and get the appropriate treatment. Smith states “some people may not realize they broke a bone and let it heal naturally” (para 3). He goes on to say that in many cases, broken bones can heal if not set. Feet bones are commonly broken and not placed into a cast.
State what kind of source it is and where it is published. If it is a website, describe what kind of site it is to lend credibility:
On the website Breaking Bones Is Natural, where doctors discuss experiences treating patients who break bones, Mark Smith discusses…
If your source does not have a specific author, use the title of the source in the in-text citation:
(“Bones Will Be Broken” para 1)
Everything you say in the discussion of each research question needs to come from a source. You shouldn’t have any information that comes from you.
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