03.04 - Research: Outline to Initial Draft

We started today's class with a discussion on how to take the information found in doing research (now organized into an outline with a thesis and main ideas/topics) and turn it into an initial draft of a poem. To explain this, I introduced the idea of "the three whats."

In class I explained that these three types of what (what? so what? now what?) are some questions that can kind of work like a fractal where the pattern is repeated in the structure of the whole essay and individual body paragraphs. The essay and body paragraphs can be effectively structured by answering the questions each time in order.

Notes from class:

Essay-level whats:

 Parapraph-level whats:

Everyone then had the rest of the period to work on turning their outline into their initial draft of the paper. I was on hand to help students with the writing process and met individually with people to answer questions, address concerns, and work through writer's block.

Relevant material from past classes:

Outline Information
Thesis Statement Information
Main Idea Information
Quotation Information
Paraphrase Information
Summary Information 
NoodleTools: Getting Started
NoodleTools: Bibliography
NoodleTools: Notecards

Video Tutorials:

NoodleTools: Outlines

NoodleTools: Notecards

NoodleTools: Bibliography

Research: Using Marvel and Google

Homework:

Continue to work on turning your outline into an initial draft.
Our goal is to finish these in class tomorrow.

Revise or complete any assignments as necessary.