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What is CD/CM? When writing about literature, ALWAYS prove your point! Use CD/CM to do that.

What is CD/CM? When writing about literature, ALWAYS prove your point! Use CD/CM to do that. CD. CD = C oncrete D etail What does concrete mean?. Concrete Details INCLUDE. Facts Evidence Illustrations Can Touch It Can Point to It Quotations. Concrete Detail.

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What is CD/CM? When writing about literature, ALWAYS prove your point! Use CD/CM to do that.

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  1. What is CD/CM? When writing about literature, ALWAYS prove your point! Use CD/CM to do that.

  2. CD • CD = Concrete Detail • What does concrete mean?

  3. Concrete Details INCLUDE • Facts • Evidence • Illustrations • Can Touch It • Can Point to It • Quotations

  4. Concrete Detail • Use quotations and parentheses to give credit to the author. • So, Give credit: Using Quotations & Citations • Cite your source with last name and page number of the book.

  5. FOR EXAMPLE • In The Outsiders, Ponyboy says, “I had almost decided that I dreamed the outside world and there was nothing real but baloney sandwiches and the civil war and the old church and the mist in the valley” (Hinton 79). • …mist in the valley” (Hinton 79). • Note the punctuation. • ·The period comes after the parenthesis.

  6. FOR EXAMPLE • In The Outsiders, Ponyboy says, “I had almost decided that I dreamed the outside world and there was nothing real but baloney sandwiches and the civil war and the old church and the mist in the valley” (Hinton 79). • …mist in the valley” (Hinton 79). • Note the citation. • ·There is NO punctuation inside the parentheses.

  7. FOR EXAMPLE • In The Outsiders, Ponyboy says, “I had almost decided that I dreamed the outside world and there was nothing real but baloney sandwiches and the civil war and the old church and the mist in the valley” (Hinton 79). • In The Outsiders, Ponyboy says, • USE A LEAD-IN to introduce the writer or speaker, followed by a comma.

  8. Review • CD’s need… • A lead in to introduce the writer or speaker. Guy de Maupassant writes, • Quotation marks WITHOUT punctuation Guy de Maupassant writes, “She sat waiting on a chair in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, without fire, without a thought” • A Citation. …without a thought” (Maupassant 4).

  9. CM CM = Commentary

  10. CM = Commentary • Opinion • Judgment • Argument • Guess • Slant • Assumption • YOUR VOICE • YOUR IDEAS

  11. Commentary Provide your INTERPRETATION using your own VOICE, IDEAS, and OPINIONS.

  12. CM • Should be interesting • Should be insightful • DO NOT state the obvious • YOU ARE THE INTERPRETOR of the author’s message. • YOU ARE THE COMMENTATOR

  13. CoMmentary • This shows that… • This means… • This proves…

  14. Put it all together Guy de Maupassant writes, “She sat waiting on a chair in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, without fire, without a thought” (Maupassant 4). This shows that the protagonist is passive, unwilling to take action in order to change her fate or station in life. • Lead-In, CD (Citation 3). CM

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