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research into a 18 page rough draft.

  • Outline Block an evening to read the comments I’ve made on your annotated bibliography. Wake up early the next morning. Spread the hard copy pages of your annotated bibliography in front of you, and write an outline that turns the organizing cues in the bibliography into sub-titles, and possibly one-sentence main ideas. Stop working.
  • Storyboard Write the main idea of each section (Introduction, Body 1,2,3…, and Conclusion) on a respective sheet of paper. Tack the sheets of paper on your wall. For three days, as you pass the sheets by, note on the top-half of each sheet what your readers believe, know, and are likely to accept from your research. On the bottom-half of each sheet, work into what they don’t know or are unlikely to believe. The ascending order will help you organize your information.
  • Engage Sources This step is helpful at any point in your process of drafting. I usually end up in this step after I’ve put out my first draft. I go back to the sources of a section and decide whether I am disagreeing, agreeing, or creatively qualifying the source. Then, I read my annotation to see if it reflects that engagement. If it doesn’t, I re-write my annotation. This is a helpful organizing technique when I have writer’s block.
  • Once you have a storyboard and/or outline. On a consecutive Monday, Wednesday and Friday block three early morning or late evening 100-minute rough drafting sessions. Get your timer and before you start it, go to the bathroom and get a glass of water and a snack. Shut yourself in your room and time your work. Whenever you’re distracted, you can add minutes to the timer. You are the only person who can discover the science of how long it takes you to complete a page of writing. And that time will vary on the project and your experience. But tracking it helps you become a more efficient and focused crafts person early in your career.
  • Citation Check Up Once you have written a rough draft you need to plan time to check up all your internal citations. This is an excellent activity to do with a Netflix original in the background

General guidelines to follow when completing this assignment are to focus on getting your argumentation development and reasoning out first. Later we will focus on stylistic choices. Focus on:

  • Coordinating the number and relationship of sub-ordinate arguments supporting the thesis
  • Signposting transitions between paper sections
  • Adhering to the Chicago format, citations are a must
  • Argument construction and narrative developments
  • Drafting 18 pages with all paper components from the introduction to theconclusion minimally developed (go for breadth over depth at this stage, push for completion)

In the final draft, you will revise, focusing on:

  • Soother transitions
  • Sentence mechanics, precision and clarity
  • Lax on vivid word choices and descriptions
  • Sections and subsections
  • Writing compact paragraphs, each of which make a point in less than 2/3 a page
  • Finalizing 20 pages
  • Sections and Subsections You may devise your own format for sections and subsections so long as you keep it consistent. Here’s some guidelines that Turabian suggests:

TOPIC:(Make this about the future of Advocacy consider the following:)

Topic: Electoral democracy and social advocacy

Narrowed Topic: “Get out the Vote” advocacy campaigns and voter ignorance

Narrowed Topic: Why Get out the vote campaigns, like Tinder’s Swipe the Vote, is not good for U.S. democracy

Narrowed: How future get out the vote campaigns can do better for U.S. democracy

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Narrow Down again: ***

o which advocacy campaigns are you studying that have failed? Why did they fail?

oHow would you use the evidence in your section three to improve those failed get out the vote campaigns?