Journal Six

For reading journal six, take a look back at your Paper One: read the paper from start to finish, as you go note at the end of it. Then, think about what you would do differently if you were writing this paper today. The steps below should help, and you can use these numbers in your reading journal entry:

1. What was your  Purpose? This  should be the paper's thesis statement, but sometimes the actual purpose of a paper gets away from or doesn't actually support the thesis statement. If yours is not the thesis statement, state what it is in a phrase or two.

2. Compare your  Purpose to the actual paper assignment: do the two align (is the  Purpose Relevant to the assignment? If not, what would you need to change about the  Purpose or thesis statement of your paper to actually answer the paper assignment?)

3. How did you set out to prove the thesis statement? What specific  Concepts did you point to? What  Information/examples did you give? Is it  Precise/specific,  Clear, and  Relevant? If so, give an example. If not, tell what you might do differently.

4. How did you analyze the examples you gave (#3)? Give  one example where you think your analysis was  Deep and/or  Relevant. Give  one example where you think your analysis could be more  Clear, Relevant, Deep, or  Broad. What would you do differently?