Term Paper Presubmission Exercise (rough rough draft)

1.	Thesis (Topic, Precise Opinion, Blueprint (outline))
(OPTIONAL: Thesis paragraph.)
2.	Quotes from the literary works you plan to use
3.	Quotes from at least 2 peer reviewed articles (less than 5 years old) and
4.	Quotes from at least 1 scholarly book (less than 20 years)
5.	Works Cited page (properly formatted in MLA style)

Form a topic

Literature
Specific works
Literary Criticism
•	Author’s style
•	Time period (genre, style of the period Middle Ages; Ren/Elizabethan; Romantic; Victorian; Enlightenment; Modernism Postmodernism; Postcolonialism
•	Impact on society

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Peer reviewed article
A panel of experts looked at the article, suggested corrections
Accepted, Accepted with Revisions, Revise and Resubmit, Reject
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Thesis
Antithesis
Synthesis

Thesis
1.	Topic/Subject/Area
2.	Claim/Precise Opinion
3.	Blueprint
Argument/Support

Women are better cooks than men. Pro.

1.	Strongest pro argument. [Weakest counter argument.]
2.	…
3.	Weakest pro argument. [Strongest counter argument.]

Antithesis Con.
1.	Top cooks in the world are men; they get the glory (Julia Child excepted) [evidence.] But… [counter evidence.]
2.	Society changed.
3.	Men can reach ingredients on top shelf.

	

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