What is CDCM

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

• CDs need
• A lead in to introduce the writer or speaker.
• In the story Raymonds Run, Toni Cade
  Bambara writes,
• Quotation marks WITHOUT punctuation
• In the story Raymonds Run, Toni Cade
  Bambara writes,, We stand there with this big
  smile of respect between us. Its about a real a
  smile as girls can do for each other
• A Citation.
• of the trees as I fly by(Bambara 553).

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 authors message.
• YOU ARE THE COMMENTATOR

13
CoMmentary

• This shows that
• This means
• This proves

14
Put it all together

• In the story Raymonds Run, Toni Cade
  Bambara writes, We stand there with this big
  smile of respect between us. Its about a real a
  smile as girls can do for each other (Bambara
  553). This shows that Squeaky has developed the
  ability to respect her competitor.
• Lead-In, CD (Citation 3). CM