As I listened to the comments and the papers be read, I consistently noticed that many students did not embed their quotes. Most people thought they had but were confused on how to do it correctly. Another thing most people need to work on is not using plot summary in their commentary. Its hard to start out the quote and then have to think of something new to support it. Many of my peers need to choose topics that made it easy to find quotes that they could easily support. Also another big problem was using transition for the concluding sentence. It was like people almost forgot that they needed to have a transition at the end, but if they would have reread it with the check list, they would have caught their error. When it comes to writing topic sentences, people need to think "okay, what am I trying to prove? does my topic sentence clearly show what that is?" If you answer those questions with a yes, your good to go. If not, you need go back and read your topic sentences over again and fix your mistake. When your writing your concrete detail, you need to introduce it with a little back round information so the audience knows what your about to say. Then before you use your quotes, set it up so it isn't awkward to read. Go back to that part of the story and start it off from there. Then when you are writing your commentary, you need to make sure it is all your own ideas. If it sounds like it came from the story, change it to your own thinking. That's the key to having good commentary. Also if your commentary makes sense and goes with explaining the quote.
I didn't get to read my paper. I do not know what I need to work on.
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