Blogging the Peer Review

The paragraph about science

Creating a topic sentence for this paragraph can be tricky. Try a template like, "Before I explain the reasons why I believe New York is/isn't prepared for climate change, I'd like to describe what aspects of climate change are most important to understand as a New Yorker. Climate change is caused by...Perhaps the most important science to understand as a New Yorker is....


Quotations and Paragraphs: does every paragraph need a quotation?

Not the introduction.
The conclusion is your choice.
The paper would be most interesting with a quotation in every other paragraph. You could possibly get away without one in the paragraph about the science of climate change, but you might be risking your reader's interest and your authority as a writer.

Every paragraph that supports the thesis must have evidence - in other words, it must have a direct quotation.

Topic sentences

Watch out for the topic sentences. Go back to your notes from last week. Topic sentences contain the main idea of the paragraph, but they also make a claim (a mini-argument) that supports your thesis, too. The evidence you use in your paragraphs supports the claim found in the topic sentence.

What are the rules for citing websites, such as the Plan NYC-30 website?

I'm going to post the citation rules in a second. We'll discuss it later this week or next.

CLICK HERE for citations based on electronic sources that go in bibliographies (list of sources at the end of your paper.)

CLICK HERE for in-text citation rules. How to site websites is toward the bottom under "Citing non-print sources from the internet.)