Draft 1 Due/ Example Paper/Reading for In-Class Essay

You get out your draft with annotations about changes.  Sources?

I give you the handout for the Shared In-Class essay test on Tuesday, March 12.  You should read and annotate it.  Here is the link to the reading online: "Always Go to the Funeral."

Then you read and answer the questions about "Til Death Do Us Part."

Homework:

1.  Have at least three sources for class on Monday.  I will help you enter them into EasyBib, so you can create your Works Cited page.

2.  Tuesday you will need to bring a bluebook to class if you wish to handwrite the essay test.  If you want to type, you may.

2.  TWFTD: coercion in OED.

Time for Research

First of all, this.  Then, for a review, this.


Now, you have time for looking into databases, finding sources, or asking about revisions to your paper.

Homework:

1.  Have Draft 1 with some sources ready for tomorrow.  On Monday, you need several sources becauses I will show you how to use EasyBib.

2.  TWFTD:  cite (verb only) in OED.

MLA Style

In-text citations vs. bibliography.

You read "My Friend Michelle."

Please underline every in-text citation.

Please check each in-text citation against her Works Cited list.

Answer these questions in your daybook:

1. Does each in-text citation lead to a source on the Works Cited list? Give details.

2.  Does each source that is listed on the Works Cited list get mentioned in the essay? Give details.

3. If you wanted to look up the alcoholism test in the book Getting Them Sober, what page would you go to?

4. Look at the Works Cited list on page 636 in Bedford. Does "My Friend Michelle" use any online sources? Does Juliet Schor use any online sources? Which list indicates this more clearly and how?

Time to research. Remember the TWO daybook tasks related to sources: Monday's 4 internet sites and Tuesday's database handout.

Homework:

1. Research.

2. TWFTD: a word that you run into as you look at sources

Library Databases

You turn in your short essay on a cliché. I hand out the next paper's assignment sheet.

Now an example of giving credit where credit is due: Virginia Lee Burton. Who leads us to this story.

We look at the SCC databases. You go to the LRC on The Hub (under Student Services) or click here. Click around on the different collections; the most useful to you will be EBSCOhost and Gale/Cengage. Each one works a little differently, but each inside each one, if you find something useful, find the button that emails it to you. That way you don't have to remember anything about it; it's in your email.

I hand out a worksheet. This must be filled out before this research is done. You may or may not use the sources you list here; this is to practice finding the information. You do NOT have to fill out all the blanks; they don't all apply to every source.

Then off to the lab to look at possible sources and fill out your worksheet.

Homework:

1. Find three sources through databases and record them on this worksheet. These may or may not be used in your paper. The worksheet will be part of the LAST daybook check.

2. TWFTD: paraphrase in OED.

Sources: The CRAAP Test

Thinkwrite: You are shopping for a used car.  What sources of information about that car will you use?

What is it about the internet? Sources and reliability. Google: famous failures. See this? Compare to this.  Quality of information matters.

Let's think about the C.R.A.A.P. test for this site. Take notes.

Currency? Relevance? Authority? Accuracy? Purpose?

Pay attention to these factors as you look at sources.

Using Google, find at least 4 different sources that apply to your topic. Two of them should be reliable, according to the CRAAP test, and two should fail the CRAAP test on some point.

1. You must provide name of the site.
2. Describe the site, who created it, how it looks, how big it is, etc.
3. Explain how it either meets or fails the CRAAP test.

Hand in your daybooks to be checked. If you need it for typing your essay, you may give me the daybook tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Your short essay - typed - about a cliché is due tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: reliable in OED.