Draft #2 Due

First of all, remember why you're writing this paper?  Practice at this. 

But look at the site where this was made. And here is another video of theirs. 

Take some time for a "thinkwrite" on this topic.  If making copies isn't stealing, why is it illegal?  Should this change?  How will video game companies be convinced that copying their games is not stealing them?

Now you read drafts.  Get out the writer's page from Monday, answer the question about your thesis or point (it does NOT have to be stated in the introduction).  But by the end of the paper we should know what your point was.

Homework:

1.  Work on the final version of this Informing Paper.  The Final Version is due Tuesday. On Monday you will post this paper on TurnItIn, so have an electronic version available.

2.  You should have 5 words of your own for TWFTD this week.  Be sure you have a quote showing how the word was used originally.

EasyBib

Mike Mulligan leads to this.

Today you continue to work on your draft for tomorrow.  It is time to put the information from your sources into EasyBib. Hey, come up with a GREAT hook! Give us lots of vivid details, please, especially if you're writing about a trip or a place.  Do NOT bore us with "and then we..."

On Monday you will upload the draft to TurnItIn, so be prepared with the electronic file.

Homework:

1.  Draft #2 due tomorrow.  It must have a Works Cited page with at least two sources on it.

2.  TWFTD:  5 words this week, your choice, from your sources. The next daybook check is not until Dec. 2.

MLA and Databases

We look at the answers to "Til Death Do Us Part."  Then you read another example of this kind of paper:  "My Friend Michelle."

In your daybook, answer these questions:

1.  Underline all in-text citations.  2. Does each in-text citation lead clearly to a source on the Works Cited list?  3. Is every source listed on the Works Cited actually cited in the text?  List any problems you find.

Then we go to the lab and you continue to find information to include in your paper.  Draft #2 is due Friday.  It should have a Works Cited page and information from two or three sources included in it.

Remember the pig in the flood in the Philippines?  Well, it's been flooding in Thailand and it's still flooding there....

Homework:

1. Work on this paper, finding information and writing your draft.  Draft #2 is due Friday.

2.  TWFTD:  find 5 words for this week from your sources.

Intro to Databases

We go over yesterday's grammar assignment.

This leads to the library databases. Copy off the board the flowchart for using the databases.

Then we talk about search terms by looking at this. And then we try this.

Now try to come up with a statement that leads to three search terms with synonyms and write it on your handout.

Then we go to the lab.  You are to search three of them:  Gale, Wilson, and Ebsco.  Write the information from a source from each one on the handout.  These may end up being useful in your paper, or they MAY NOT.

Homework:

1.  Fill out the handout for three sources, one each from Gale, Wilson and Ebscohost.  Then look further for sources that would be useful for your paper. We will be working on this tomorrow, as well.

2.  Be on the lookout for TWFTD words in your sources;  you must find five words for this week on your own. You may use any dictionary for the definition that matches the context.

Draft #1 Informing

Fragments?  Do Ex. 37.1 and eliminate them.

Now you read drafts.

Homework:

1.  Finish Ex. 37.1.

2.TWFTD: you find a word from ANY source that you are not sure about, and quote the context.  Ideally, you will be finding words in the sources you use for research this week. You may define using whatever dictionary you like.

3.  Continue to add to this draft.