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Pre-Drafting Essay II: Student Source Use

I) Part of this essay will likely involve support from personal experience.

What research/writing experiences will you draw on from memories of researching/writing a source-based essay in EN 101 (or in another college class). These experiences may help you establish the problem your paper/thesis addresses or may help you establish the cause or solution of the problem your paper addresses. Will you use a narrative (describe yourself making choices and decisions in real time) and/or will you quote or cite from your previous work? In any case, we want lots of specifics here. Let’s try to write a personal experience narrative that supports your thesis. Put yourself at a desk, researching or writing or using sources (or trying but failing to do these things).

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II) Part of this project will involve support from the in-class readings.

What two (or more!) in-class readings are you using? Are you using the article to help you establish the problem your essay addresses? To help you establish the causes of the problem your essay addresses? To help you argue that composition scholars often overlook one important cause of or solution to the problem your essay addresses?

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III) Creating a Basic Outline