Things You'll Need:
- paper
- pen/computer
- creative ideas
- topic to respond to
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Step 1
After you read a book or article or whatever, think about it. Do you have a topic in mind? If you do, read the following. Make a bulleted list of ideas if your mind is swimming with ideas. If you don't have that many ideas, pick one idea and expand it. For example, if the article is about birds who fight a war, an idea to write about may be why they engaged in the war and the outcomes of the war.
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Step 2
After your ideas are on paper, start writing a draft. Organize your ideas and begin writing them on paper. Make sure every idea has supporting details so your teacher will give you a good grade. When you're through, move on to step three.
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Step 3
Now, it's time to revise. Read through your dialectical response and see if the grammar, punctuation, spelling, ideas, and sentences are right. If not, now is the time to change them. At this point, it's okay to mark on your draft. I prefer using red pen or another catchy color. Feel free to mark all over your draft. Just don't mark so much that you can't read it.
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Step 4
Now, since your revisions are made, it's time to write a clean copy. This is your draft two. After you have copied it, read through it again. If there are still corrections to be made, make them now. You don't want to be given a low grade just because you didn't want to correct a few silly mistakes. If your dialectical response is perfect and polished, you're almost ready. See the next step for more help.
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Step 5
If you really want to impress your teacher, this is the step to read. Here's the secret: Other students may not think of doing this, but if you type your paper, yours will stand out from all other papers and your teacher won't be able to resist from giving you a desirable grade. This doesn't take much time either. Just sit in front of the computer and start typing. Organize everything carefully and reread it over and over before printing. Make sure your name is on the response. You don't want your paper that you've worked so hard on thrown away because you didn't put your name on it. Type your name. If the whole response is typed but the name is handwritten, it will make the entire paper seem like it's sloppy. Of course, you don't want that.
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Step 6
If you really want to impress your teacher, add a cover to your response, especially if you have multiple responses. Put your response(s) in a small binder with a title in the front of the binder. Don't put the usual like "My Dialectical Responses." Write something creative, such as "Birds in War," if you're doing my topic. Lastly, when you place your response in your backpack, be sure to take good care of it. You don't want your entire response messed up just because of a fold in the paper. The instructions are over. Good luck writing dialectical responses!
Comments
stevencvms said
on 7/9/2009 nice article, i had trouble at that when i was in 7th grade