CHECK YOUR FACTS: ELIMINATE OPINIONS
“Baseball is nicknamed ‘America’s favorite pastime’, but football is a much more exciting sport to watch.”
You’ve been working on a research paper about sports for your writing class. You have completed all of your research, typed up all of your facts and explanations, edited, and revised your paper. You're going to get an A+ no doubt. Your paper is due at the end of class, just 45 minutes away. You are walking to turn in the paper to the turn-in basket, but your teacher makes one last announcement…”You can only have facts and explanations in your paper. DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR OPINION.” Oh no! You know there are facts all throughout your paper, but did you also include your opinion? So, STICK TO THE FACTS: you have 45 minutes to go back through all of your research and make the last revisions to your paper that follow all directions in order to get the A+.