· Get prepped for your advisor meeting
· Organize your notes and update your bibliography
· Read the Elements handout
· Start drafting an outline to show your advisor
We’ll spend a few minutes at the start of class going over the introduction to Tucker Leavitt’s senior project paper. What is the thesis for his paper? You’ll discuss this in pairs. Then we’ll look at this annotated version of his outline and see how the rest of his paper rolls out. The purpose of this is for you to start wrapping your head around the outline process. Some of you will start your outline today; some of you will start in the next couple of days. Deciding on a thesis is a process and it will take a while. We’ll talk more about this in the next couple days.
Note that Tucker’s paper is scientific in nature and involves collecting experimental data. This makes his paper and his thesis a little different a literary analysis. Some of you might be doing something similar, and I just wanted to introduce this format to give you a model to follow.
Okay, keep moving with your reading, organization, and outlining. If you are at the outlining stage, read the “Elements” handout.
Once you're done with your draft outline, let me know by writing your name under the "Outline" ready to check column.
I will finish meeting with everyone that I didn’t touch base with yesterday and start proofing your bibliographies.
Homework due Wednesday, April 1st
No homework. Just kidding…tomorrow’s April Fool’s. You should keep digging into your notes. Push yourself so you have a refined outline ready by the end of the week.