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Week 5, Discussion 1

Week 5, Discussion 1

Q Initial post (by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, November 18th): For this discussion, you will develop one BODY paragraph of your research paper. Your paragraph will begin with one of the topic sentences from your sentence outline. (Feel free to revise the topic sentence if you think it would be beneficial.) It will then provide major and minor details to develop the idea in the topic sentence. Consider where evidence from your sources will help support your ideas, and make sure you comment on the evidence to show how it supports the topic sentence. Post your paragraph here. Peer Response (first peer response due by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 20th; second peer response due by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, November 22nd): Choose a paragraph posted by your peers. Then find an example of evidence used in the paragraph and consider it in light of the reading on Using Evidence. What characteristics of weak or strong evidence, or of effective or ineffective quotation do you observe? Please be constructive in your comments, so that if you find areas for improvement, you point them out respectfully and include suggestions for more effective use of evidence.

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