FinalProjectPhase1


Your Final Project

Phase 1: Support your thesis in a Google Doc

 


 

Files needed for your Final Project 

Final Project overview

Thesis statement generator

See how the Google Doc part of the Final Project is marked

Last week handout

 

The final project recalls all you have learned in this course this semester

It should be minimum 300 words and counts 50% of your Final Mark


Class period 1 (Jan 17-19) Write a thesis and 3 reasons

 

Goals for the class

 

 

 

 

 


What you produce during this class

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Class period 2 (Jan 22-23) Write a paragraph about each reason to support the thesis

 
Research your topic
In your shared Google Doc

 

 

 
It may be that one or more websites you found the day before don’t really have information to support your topic.  In that case, you’ll have to replace them.  
Use a minimum of three websites.  Four or more is better (higher mark)

 

 

In this class you must write one paragraph for each reason explaining exactly what you found in those websites that help you develop your thesis.

 

Be sure you write this in your own words.  Do NOT simply copy and paste from web sites.  You need to show what YOU understand, and how your relate the facts you find to your thesis.

 

 

At the end of this class period, your Google Doc should have 

 

 

 

 

Class period 3 (Jan 24-26) Complete 5 paragraph essay in Google Docs

Write your report in your Google Doc.  You should have 5 paragraphs, minimum 300 words.

Paragraph

 

 

 

 

 

 

For day three of the project, you expand your work in Google Docs to 5 paragraphs, and also make your other three paragraphs longer.  To do that, use information from the websites you have found (at least one website for each reason).  

 

If you use words directly from the website, put quote marks around them and indicate in parentheses where you got those words exactly, like this: “Put words you copy from websites in quote marks like this.” (in parentheses, write from http:// etc.) 

 

 

How your Google Doc is marked

 

See how this part of the Final Project is marked

 

  NC 13 Final Project Mark
Full marks Phase 1 Marking in Google Docs (5 points each)
5 Introduction explains topic and why it is important
5 Introduction states the thesis
5 Introduction indicates how thesis will be supported in the essay
5 Your first Reason 1 supports your thesis
5 Your paragraph is at least 3 sentences
5 It is written in own words
5 Words not yours appear within quote marks
5 References are given for the source of any quoted words
5 Reason 2 supports the thesis
5 3 sentences
5 written in own words
5 Words not yours in quote marks
5 Reference given for source of quoted words
5 Reason 3 supports the thesis
5 3 sentences
5 written in own words
5 Words not yours in quote marks
5 Reference given for source of quoted words
5 Your conclusion is effective, at least 3 sentences
5 Your conclusion summarizes how your thesis was supported
100  
   
This is how your Academic Composition final project Google Docs 
will be marked.  Your Google Doc is due now, and will not be
remarked once you have submitted your Word Document version.