SOME LAST MINUTE GUIDELINES FOR THE FINAL PAPER

Below are some guidelines we offered in class for shaping up your final papers:

• Do 3 para intro--For the "BooK": Into the Wild, but maybe also Passion project. 
Cook is crucial….For hook you could perhaps choose something that you wrote that  you like that perhaps doesn’t fit into your paper's flow. 

• Paper is due Monday august 12 by 5pm. 
Remember it should also be posted to your site, with “pretty stuff” –links etc,--built into the posted version of your paper---

• “Rule of 3 is the shit”  says Monique—it forces transitions…it pulls more ideas out of you, it works!

• As for quotes…try 2 per para as much as possible….also , remember there are LOTS of poss quotes…inside the many prompts we have---

• Don’t start paras with prompts….no names of prompts in the the 3-4-5 (Dont start a para with a reference to "Into the Wild" for ex. Instead, start off a good 3-4-5 that elaborates on some concept that is FOUND or SUGGESTED BY your prompt, (in this case "Into the Wild") and THEN bring in the prompt as a quote. 

• This idea came from Elliot in the 7 class: Read the paper, see what it is trying to tell you…(overall)---what is the paper about, what is its “feel”—(not really talking about COOK here…)…this FEEL, once you have identified it, can serve to help shape the movement of the paper…you can add aspect of this IDEA/FEEL  to your end of para commentaries for example.

• Make the transition paras big as possible so that you dont have a look of 3 big old paras (for a Rule of 3) followed by a little para.