The Krebs Cycle will not take place if . You will now be asked to demonstrate your knowledge of connectives and paragraphs.

Select one of the following topic sentences and write a paragraph that develops this topic. End the paragraph with a clinching sentence that refers to and repeats the idea (but does not use the same words) of the topic sentence.

My favorite food is .
I cannot concentrate when .
Sports are overemphasized in school and should be eliminated.
Sports are necessary for a good education.
The problem I would try to solve first if I were President is .

When you have completed the paragraph, number the sentences you wrote. Send the project to your teacher to review.

Once you have received the report back from your teacher, rewrite the paragraph. In rewriting, you should apply not only what you have learned about connectives but also your knowledge of paragraph development. When you are finished revising, send your completed paragraph back to the teacher.

Before you submit your paragraph, you should look for and evaluate these points:

complete sentences (no fragments)
topic sentence
support of topic sentence (every sentence should help develop main idea)
clinching sentence

breathe, think and analyze the situation, pull them aside and talk to them about it

technical documents should be clear and precise. basically, clarity is the key element in a successful technical document.

i think it is called the president's cabinet.

what: when quoting a source, use the author’s words verbatim, or word-for-word. this means you shouldn’t change any grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. put quotations around the words to tell your reader where the quote begins and where it ends.

you also need to acknowledge the author. for example, if using mla format for your research paper, you should have in-text citations with the author’s name and page number listed at the end of each quote.

when: use quotations to provide concrete examples to support your claims. using direct quotations is a great way to build your credibility on the subject. it’s also a good idea to quote your source when the author states things in a powerful way. if you think he or she said it best, then use the exact words to share the ideas.

example: in the short story “a jury of her peers”, mrs. hale compares mrs. wright to her caged bird, saying “she—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. how—she—did—change” (glaspell).

paraphrasing

what: paraphrasing differs from quoting because you restate the passage in your own words. since you don’t use the author’s words, you don’t need to use quotation marks. however, you still need to acknowledge the author for his or her ideas.

when paraphrasing a text, you should communicate the full meaning of the text; don’t change the meaning. it can be a condensed version of the text, or it could end up being longer than the source it’s paraphrasing.

when: you use paraphrasing when you take notes, or explain a chart or diagram to someone. paraphrasing highlight the important parts of a larger text. it also allows you to simplify the ideas for your readers.

example:

original: “it was no ordinary thing that called her away–it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in dickson county. but what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted and half unsifted” (glaspell).

paraphrase: as mrs. hales walks around mrs. wright’s home, she notices that the kitchen is in disarray as if she was in the middle of baking bread (glaspell).