What is CDCM

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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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CD

• CD Concrete Detail
• What does concrete mean?

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Concrete Details INCLUDE

• Facts
• Evidence
• Illustrations
• Can Touch It
• Can Point to It
• Quotations

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Review

• CDs 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).

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CM

• CM Commentary

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CM Commentary

• Opinion
• Judgment
• Argument
• Guess
• Slant
• Assumption
• YOUR VOICE
• YOUR IDEAS

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Commentary

• Provide your INTERPRETATION using your own VOICE,
  IDEAS, and OPINIONS.

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CM

• Should be interesting
• Should be insightful
• DO NOT state the obvious
• YOU ARE THE INTERPRETOR of the authors message.
• YOU ARE THE COMMENTATOR

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CoMmentary

• This shows that
• This means
• This proves

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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