Research, Research, Research

For today's blog post, I want you to just provide an MLA-formatted list of the resources you are using for your persuasive essay. This is a pretty easy post for the day AND it helps you prepare your works cited page for your essay.

Style

Read Section II in The Elements of Style, "An Approach to Style (With a List of Reminders)" (pages 66-85). Just as exciting as the last ones, right?

OK, so which of these are helpful tips? Which ones make you say to yourself, "I never thought of that before, but it really just makes sense," like you should have known it all along? Which parts seem counterintuitive to you—the ones that go against what you think about writing? How will they help you in revising your paper (due Monday, btw).

Effective Argument, Continued

Since "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" is kind of long, and I want you to really pay attention to it, and since you're all busy on your first drafts, we'll just say that Friday's blog topic is your blog topic for today, too. You don't need to do two separate blogs for it. Just make sure you do the one. Cool?