PAGE FRIGHT!!!!!

Students,

I have been out of town all weekend in Evansville, IN. I can see from some comments and calls that I've received that the outlines have caused some confusion. That's why you are bringing them to class tomorrow!

Nathan said he had seven paragraphs. Are you averaging 300 words per paragraph? I'm thinking that you should have more than seven paragraphs for a research paper, so we will probably need to take a look at that and see where you might need to divide up some large paragraphs into smaller ones.

One student emailed that the outline on the blog is different from what was in class. The outline in class was very broad because everyone has a different subject/career. You have to fill in the blanks and decide on your subtopics from the information that you have collected.

Do the best you can, and bring it in tomorrow as ready as you can get it.
DO NOT BRING IN OUTLINES THAT YOU HAVE NOT WORKED ON.
I want to see that you have put some thought into this and done the best you could do. I want to see that you have organized your material and tried to group it into topics and subtopics that would fit the broad categories we talked about in class. Basically, I want to see that you have given it your best shot. Think of this way:

"We’ve got to work, work
to work this out
We’ll make things right,
the sun will shine
If we work, work
there’ll be no doubt
We can still save this outline
If we work this out!"

The outline is the foundation of your paper. A good outline means a good paper. So we will work on them together and get you squared away to complete your rough draft this upcoming week, capeesh?

Someone else asked about thesis statements. These will not be exactly the same in a research paper. We'll talk about it more tomorrow.