Crowd - Funding Project Due

 You turn in your papers.

Find the error in this sentence:

Motor Trend uses several criterias when they do a road test on a vehicle.

If you have not posted your document from yesterday to the forum, I show you how. Even if it's not done, you will post it now. {For full points, finish it and reply to your own post, attaching it the reply.}

Thinkwrite:  You spent time yesterday reading reviews. What do you think every review should do? What did you see happening in the reviews you read yesterday? What key elements or sections are in every review?

We discuss.

You will be writing a review of one of these:

1. The Problem with Patents -- Infographic

2. Copyright: Forever Less One Day -- video

3. How I Beat a Patent Troll -- video

I give you a handout to fill out AFTER looking at the one you choose to review.

On Monday I'll give you the assignment sheet with today's key elements for the review you will write.

On Monday we will use your handouts to discuss criteria across "infomedia."

Homework:

1. You choose one of the above informative pieces and read/watch it. Begin to fill out the handout about it (you have no daybook), but there will be some time in class for this Monday. You MUST watch the videos on your OWN time.

2. No word today.

3. Turn in your daybook. It should have (1) a white word quiz sheet and (2) a blue Why is English Hard to Spell? sheet in it.

A New Genre of Writing: The Review

Thinkwrite: Have you ever looked for a product review online before buying something? Tell about how and when you do this. If not, why not? If you want to find out more about a product before buying, what do you do?

We look at this.

Your next paper (short project, no drafts in class) is going to be  a review. Tomorrow you will find out what your choices are to review. TODAY we begin to figure out how to write a review.

What are the KEY ELEMENTS of a review? What is its purpose/audience/ rules of the genre?

You are going to do some online investigation to find out. I expect you to help each other today with the forum details, but each of you will find your own example reviews to analyze. Ready to explore? We go to Moodle.

Homework:

1. Finish your Key Elements and attach to a reply in the forum.

2. Have your Final Version of the Crowd-funding Project ready to hand in. Bring all drafts and comment sheets.

3. Have your daybook ready to hand in. There are two handouts you need to include: the spelling quiz and the English history notes.

4. TWFTD: criteria or criterion (any dictionary and quote)

Editing and Proofreading

Thinkwrite: Yesterday I asked you to decide how much money you would invest based on the presentation, not the idea itself. How successful were you at doing this? Explain. Can you think of any real-world situations where presentation might be more powerful than the actual product/idea?

Use Turnitin to help you find trouble; also use feedback, or get more.

Please note:

1. You may increase heading size to font 14.

2. Think about how to attribute the sources for your pictures. (Intellectual property!) A note at the end? Of course, on Kickstarter itself, the assumption is they created any pictures for their own product, so the images / video belong to them as well.

3. If you make changes to your paper and want to submit again in Moodle, use Part 2, and send me a message so I will open it for you to see. This is NOT REQUIRED.

Homework:

1. Final Version is due Friday at the beginning of class. Be sure to bring ALL related comment sheets and drafts.

2. TWFTD: "I never look at a movie review before I go see a movie." Use the OED to find a definition for "review" as used in this quote. Give the number of the definition when you do so.

Draft #2 Crowd-Funded Project

We go to Moodle and I show you how to upload your current draft.

Get out your hard copy. On it, draw a star next to the heading of each required element. This is to help your readers find them.

I pass out the comment sheets. We look these over so you know what you are looking for.

Note: Focus your feedback on the presentation, the document, NOT the actual project idea.

You each read and provide feedback for two projects.

Homework:

1. Get your draft uploaded into Moodle/Turnitin. After I look at it, it should become visible to you. Tomorrow class time will be spent on editing/ proofreading.

2. TWFTD: intellectual property (as a phrase)  not in OED

Intellectual Property

"Regular practice simply isn't enough. To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes."     Joshua Foer

I return the Lego paper.

In your daybook,  define plagiarism.  Do you know of any real-world examples? These can be across genres.

Here's a definition. School vs. real world? Three flavors?

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Why did the publisher cancel her contract and destroy her books? Do you think this was appropriate?

 Helene

 2. Why was this outcome SO DIFFERENT?

 Herr Guttenberg

  3. Was this the right outcome for a politician, for Germany?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

 Book covers? 

      4. Was this a case of theft?  Who decides?

 If the courts are in charge... 

       5. Do you agree with the Australian Supreme Court ruling?

If there's time....better news, for some:  music...  TV   iTunes 

       6.  Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow your Draft 2 is due.  Bring one hard copy (or two if you prefer). Also, have access to the computer file of your paper so you can upload it into our class in Moodle -- I'll show you how. 

2. TWFTD: nebulous.