Getting Ready for Assessment

We check yesterday's "Michelle" questions.

We check the drowning commas handout.

We talk about the SCC Departmental Assessment Essay. This will be written during class on Tuesday of next week. It will be about the reading I hand out today. You may type or hand-write (you need a bluebook if you handwrite). You will have two prompts to choose from. WHEN YOU PASS IT, you get an automatic TWO pages added to your page-count for the class in addition to the amount you write for the essay. (It will be scored by an instructor in Lincoln.)

Thinkwrite:  Think about the characteristics of effective writing. What makes one piece of communication effective and another NOT? Try to pin down some specific tools in a writer's tool box. (hint, hint)

We discuss.

Hand in your daybooks. Include the comma handout and the database handout.

Homework:

1. Read the article "Leave Your Name at the Border" by Manuel Munoz. Annotate it -- mark words, comment on meaning, write down your reactions. On Tuesday you can use your annotated copy as you write your essay.

2. Be working on your Problem/ Solution paper. Choose your sources, and add their voices to your own discussion. The ONLY draft is due Wednesday, and it should have both in-text citations and a Works Cited page. On Monday there will be time to use EasyBib for your sources (not the whole class).

Citing Sources

Hand in your Cliché papers.

In-text citations vs. bibliography: what's MLA style?

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: Tuesday's 4 CRAAP tested sites and Wednesday's Database Worksheet.

Homework:

1. Research.

2. Daybook Check tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: no word.

Library Databases

I hand out the final long 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 and perhaps Opposing Viewpoints.Each one works a little differently, but 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.

Explore the databases 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 NEXT daybook check.

2. TWFTD: paraphrase in OED.

Sources

Who filters your information for you? Thinkwrite: Explain this comic to someone who hasn't seen it.

Have you looked at the other side? aljazeera.com    hawkeyesports.com    globaltimes.cn

Let's take a quiz!

How do you choose a source of information? Below your quiz, please list your sources for news.

Here's the C.R.A.A.P. test for souces for your paper. Take notes.

Currency? Relevance? Authority? Accuracy? Purpose?

Pay attention to these factors as you look at sources.

Using Google, find a search term that gives you 4 interesting sources on the first page (that relate to your paper) . Do the following for each site:

1. 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, using specific criteria (C/R/A/A/P). 

Homework:

1. Complete the above Google exercise in your daybook.

2. Your essay about a cliché is due Thursday.

3. Anyone who missed class last Thursday needs to pick up a handout from me, and do a Moodle activity.

2. TWFTD: relevant in OED