ENG 122 2.2: Peer Reviewing Proposals

Today’s Plan:

• UNC writing center (by appointment only)
• Proposal Project review
• MLA / APA checklist
• Strategies for workshopping and peer review
• Peer review
• Homework

UNC Writing Center

As you work to finish your projects, I wanted to emphasize the usefulness of the UNC writing center. Let’s look at their list of services.

Proposal Project Review

One more time, let’s review the proposal project. I have a handout!

MLA and APA Checklist

13% of the grade for the first paper concerns MLA and APA formatting. As I have already indicated, you can find the guidelines for MLA and APA formatting on Purdue’s OWL site. Google it.

That said, I wanted to provide you a list of concerns so that you know what to Google, what to look for.

Global Formatting

• Page Margins
• Page Spacing (and extra space between paragraphs)
• Paragraph Gutters (Indents)
• Page Numbers / Headings
• Subheadings to paper sections

strong>Quotation Formatting

• In-text citations, quotation marks, and periods (emphasis: dates in APA have to be incorporated into the sentence after the name)
• Block text citations, quotation marks, and periods (you block any quote four lines or longer in your paper)

Works Cited Formatting

• Heading
• Margins (use your ruler)
• Order
• Two works by the same author
• When to put a title in quotation marks, when to italicize?
• Emphasis: Capital letters in MLA, lowercase in APA

Writing Titles that Don’t Suck

• MLA- Witty phrase: Description of the Project
• APA- Clear Description of the Project

See this in action. MLA journal. APA journal.

Peer Review

Over the course of the semester we are going to spend quite a bit of time reading and discussing each other’s writing in class. Normally this will be done as a workshop, in which we all read one or two drafts and talk about them as a large group. Today, however, I want everyone to get a some feedback on the drafts of their proposals, so we are going to team up for peer review.

Homework

Finish the proposals! Submit to Canvas in “Proposal Final Draft.” Good luck and enjoy your long weekend.