If you did happen to be absent Monday, (I know that by Daily Blog is for today, but if you also happened to miss yesterday) the class took notes on MLA and APA format for our senior essays. Those formats will be used for the Literature Review section of the senior paper (HINT: that is due TONIGHT). Rivers will be expecting you to apply the correct format and presentation for the assignment, whether that be MLA or APA. (Rivers says that he wants the review to look as clean as possible)
If you haven’t done so already, Rivers also wants you to make sure that you are following the rubric that he posted for the Literature Review on Google Classroom. Here is a picture of the exact rubric:
RUBRIC
CONTENT:
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Specific
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Clear
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Introduce major speakers/topics/events
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Distill current state of conversation
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Call for research
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EVIDENCE
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Integrated & Analyzed
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Evidence from academic sources
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Evidence from cinema
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PRESENTATION:
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Consistency
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MLA/APA Format, 500-750 words, INSTRUCTIONS REMOVED FROM THE PAGE
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The one thing that Rivers made very clear is that not everyone’s essay is going to look the same. However, when writing your literature review, Rivers wants to make sure that all of his students are applying the information from your research in the same way (HINT: By using the rubric above)
Also, Rivers made it very clear that in your Literature Reviews you should be citing as much as possible, even when you are paraphrasing. The more citations and the more sources that you have in your Literature review, the more credibility it will show for the Synthesis section later in your essay. However, if you are going to use a quote, Rivers asks that you integrate the quote instead of just sticking a quote in the middle of a paragraph. He wants it to sound as if there aren’t any quotes at all. If the quote is too bulky or too huge, paraphrase it. Rivers wants to see our voices come through in these papers. Twenty points of the assignment is all about presentation, to see if you are using MLA or APA format appropriately, which also includes where the works cited/references are. If you do not have your references or a works cited page, that will be an automatic zero.
Last but not least, Rivers wants you to make sure that you turn in your Literature Review in the assignment on classroom that is titled : “#7: Lit Review”. He purposefully mentioned this to make sure that none of his students just share a Google doc with him. The assignment needs to be turned in on Google Classroom.
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