SECOND SUBMISSION OF A PAPER SECTION: first part of the Confirmation

For this assignment you will submit the next section of your paper: the first part of your “confirmation.” This section is defined in detail below.

Confirmation

This is what you might normally call the body of your paper. This is where you explore the problem and offer the arguments you want to use to convince readers that you’re right. This part is where you really make use of the “They Say, I Say” structure. That is, you share something you learn from your research (“They Say”) then you offer your interpretation about why this bit of research is important (“I Say”). Then you offer a second related piece of knowledge you learned in your research (“They Say”), and your interpretation, including how this new knowledge is related to the last piece of knowledge you shared (“I Say”). Again, this is where much of the work of your argument gets done — and the longest section of your paper.

Please Note: Be sure to use the kinds of metacommentary you learned in Graff & Birkenstein’s They Say, I Say. I will be evaluating your submission on how well you use the “they say, I say” techniques.

And because it’s the longest part of your paper, we’re dividing the work into two sections. So this week you’re submitting the first part of the confirmation, and next week you’ll submit the remainder of the confirmation.

Due Now

Use a separate document (you’ll be combining the sections later in the term) submitting the first part of the confirmation — aim for about TWO to THREE pages.

What you turn in here must contain:

1) at the top, please post your central thesis.

2) in the text, include correct in-text citations.

3) be sure to include a relevant Works Cited page at the end. If you use only one source, then your Works Cited page will have one source.