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Due: Par 5 Revision

Essay 2 Revision Workshop

Due: Par 6 Draft

See the Par 6 Prewriting exercise for details.

Par 6 Peer Review

Due: Essay 2 Revision

Note -- Also revise ILP.

Hypertext workshop.

Don't believe everything you read. You're probably already aware that people can post pretty much anything they want online. Just because a page looks professional and appears in Google's search results does not mean you can trust what's on the page.

In order to emphasize the point that anybody can make a web page, paragraph 8 -- an "informative hypertext" -- asks you to do just that. The effective use of hyperlinks can change the way you write (making it much more efficient). But before we get to that, we'll need to spend some time on making hyperlinks.

Reasoning Blueprint

A reasoning blueprint is a brief list of the terms, concepts, or ideas that will determine the structure of a well-written academic paragraph. An efficient blueprint is part of the thesis sentence: "A is better than B, because of X, Y, and Z."

A paragraph is a detailed treatment of a single idea. A thesis statement is a non-obvious claim about a precise topic. If your reader sees any list of items in the vicinity of the thesis statement, that list will look like the reasoning blueprint, and an attentive reader will expect the rest of the paragraph to follow that blueprint.