Today's class we had the ability to work on our senior paper outline. Mr. Rivers stressed the importance of time management and reminded us that the draft is due Friday night. As students, we have come accustom to the lifestyle of handing in everything last minute; however, with this huge paper, time management is essential to not only achieving a good grade, but also conducting a well crafted senior paper essay. Mr. Rivers showed us a document called Transition Guide, and he taught us the importance of transitions within an essay. The specific choice can be helpful within topic sentences and among paragraphs when organizing the draft. We learned that transitions establish relationships between or within your paragraphs, and to start basic and then revise by adding specific content. There are many types of transitions and different uses for them. For example, there is sequence/order, similarity, exception/contrast, time, example, emphasis, place/position, cause and effect, additional support or evidence, and conclusion/summary. After the brief transition lesson, the class was able to "get crackin," and "dive in," to our organization. I personally, only had to finish my thesis statement. Typically, a person should draft their thesis statement prior to creating the organizer, but I simply could not come up with the perfect sentence that accurately encompassed my paper's theme. The thesis statement is so critical to a paper and I am still very stuck with the perfect way to word it. I established a draft of it, but I really have to edit it to a strong thesis statement.
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