Peer Edit Activity:

The Amazing Polychromatic Paragraph

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Use the following key to highlight sentence types within each body paragraph
By the end of the activity, every sentence in every body paragraph should be highlighted...right?I mean, if it's not summary of the subject matter, and it's not your original analysis...then what could it be? And what would it be doing there?

Discuss with your partner any questionable areas or non-highlighted sentences
After color-coding, focus on what ISN'T being said...for example, did your partner neglect to discuss some aspect of analysis that YOU focused on in YOUR paper? Though you might've read different articles...a lot of the main things that I expect to show up in the papers were applicable in ALL articles.

Thesis statement:

·The umbrella under which all body sentences must fall.

·Must be a provable sentence...something you can back up; support.

·All topic sentences directly support this idea.

Topic sentences:

·First sentence of each body paragraph.

·Supports the thesis statement in more specific detail.

·Each body sentence under the topic sentence should support the topic sentence.

oIf it does not, it must be revised or removed.