1. A “Road Map” for Success

2.   Use evidence from the text to support your ideas about your goals and plans for success.  Review the five (5) readings we read and annotated in class this year:  “ Freshmen Year: The Make-It-Or-Break-It Year” (2007)  “You Can Grow Your Intelligence” (2002)  Chapter 1:“The Mindsets ” (from The New Psychology of Success) (2006)  “Time Management for Teens” (published 2010)  “Snooze or Lose” (from New York Magazine) (2007)  Determine which information did you annotate then that you could use now to support your essay. Using Research

3. Articles we’ve read and annotated this school year in WOC

4.   Review the annotations you made for each of the five articles.  Identify FIVE (5) quotes/excerpts that could be used to support your goals for either HS, College, Career, and/or Personal  ONE (1) from EACH article= Five total  Write these on a separate sheet of paper  List the TITLE of the ARTICLE, its AUTHOR, and its DATE of PUBLICATION EXAMPLE: According to the article, “You Can Grow Your Intelligence,” it states that, “The more that you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow” ( Health & Science: News You Can Use, 2002 ). On The “Write” Path

5.   Consider how these articles can act as sources for you to create a convincing argument for the goals you’ve selected as well as why you deserve to achieve them.  Using evidence to support your claims only makes your argument stronger and more convincing to your audience.  It shows your audience that you actually know what you’re talking about and that you’re not just all talk with no action.  When you sound like an expert, you tend to start to act like one, too! Why Cite Research?

6.   Select at least three (3) references from at least three different sources.  These will act as your evidence to support the claims you make about your goals.  For each reference, be sure that you follow a general “formula” for incorporating research into your writing.

7.   State your claim ( this is also known as the central argument, purpose or thesis)  Introduce the text you’ll be referencing ( mention the title, the author and/or its most recent date of publication )  Cite the evidence  You may either paraphrase or put the idea in your own words, or you could cite the text exactly putting quotation marks (“ “) around your evidence.  Explain why the evidence you selected is the best to illustrate (or support, or prove) your claim. How to Cite Evidence