Those whe gprs) ae lluben Unaware, Il Ingram Canhe | Side-shadowing This activity will help you analyze your own work, paragraph by paragraph, and then help you see if the structure of your paper “works.” Work with your current draft — the one with 2-inch margins if you have it. First, remind yourself of the folfowing: Arnecica bas helpd cot cantollg pollulsa bub ee oes Your audience = _General_Pbl __Your purpose or thesis = 1, Read through your first paragraph — all the way through. a. Identify the purpose of this paragraph. Does this paragraph exist to introduce or explain a new idea to your audience, or to give detail or an example? Perhaps it is providing context—all the necessary background info your reader needs—to understand something you've said, or your larger purpose? Identify your topic sentence. Does this sentence do its job? Does it clearly tell your reader the purpose of the paragraph and set the tone? If not (or if it doesn’t even exist), how might you revise it? . Do all the supporting sentences in your paragraph directly support the topic sentence? If not, how can your revise? Do you need to move stuff around, or delete something, or add something? d. Identify the concluding sentence. Does it do its job of wrapping up the paragraph and/or connecting its ideas to the next paragraph? Does it prepare your reader to move on without leaving unanswered questions? (Consider this: have you ever read a paragraph in an text, and you're not quite sure why it’s there or what its purpose is? The concluding sentence can be a nice place to remind your reader why that paragraph was purposeful; it can be a place to remind your reader how this paragraph relates to your overall purpose or thesis.) = ° 2. Repeat with each paragraph. 3. When you are finished with each paragraph, take a step back and look at your paper as a whole, cohesive piece. a. Predicting what your audience needs from you is an important rhetorical skill to develop. With your audience in mind, look at the purpose of each paragraph. Is all the necessary info provided? Is any piece missing, such as support for a claim or an explanation of a new concept? Perhaps there is too much info provided in some places, or you get repetitive? b. Look at the organization of the paragraphs. Is everything in the best order? What might you rearrange to fit your need? Would subtitles help? ¢. What are you plans for revision? Why?