Assignment 3 must meet the following guidelines in order to earn full credit:
 A description of an important image/object (along with a photograph or drawing of the image) and a description of a specific moment when you were doing the thing you are good at.
 Sense details and information details throughout that allow readers to “be there” with you (i.e. red wheelbarrows, white chickens and answers to who, what, when, where, why, and how questions).
 Commentary on how you acquired your skill in your topic area. (If you want help with your commentary on how you became “good” at or “successful” with your topic, you can use our first-day writing sample excerpt from Flower and Hayes and their analysis about what makes someone a “good writer” or “successful artist.”
 A quotation from a research source to help you comment on and analyze your story.

Some writing tips to help you do good work:
 Write a true revision that makes improvements throughout the paper and not just in one or two places.
 Use signal phrases for all quotations and paraphrases (like this: In her NYT.com article, “Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think,” Alison Gopnik says, “The young brain is remarkably plastic and flexible.”).
 Use parenthetical page citations (page numbers only) for all quotations and paraphrases from sources that have page numbers, for example, In The Mind at Work, Mike Rose says, “one has to consider factors beyond knowledge alone” (64).
 Include a basic Works Cited that lists the author (last name first), title of work, and name of the publisher (Gopnik, Alison. “Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think.” New York Times).
 A guaranteed way to make your paper better: read your essay out loud several times from a printout while editing with a pen before you turn in a typed final version.