Sentence Level Work and Problems

First of all, I return your Kickstarter papers. Put in portfolio.

Open your Summary/ Eval/ Response paper in Turnitin (in Moodle). NOW you can click on the middle button and see comments I have made, and see some proofreading by the software.

We discuss.

For your daybook today, find one sentence using coordination and one using subordination from your own paper, and copy them down.

Now we look at Exercise 25.2 on page 292 in The Everyday Writer. You may type or write these, but they go in your daybook for Monday. You may drop off words, but try to preserve the meaning.

Last ten minutes:  The next paper you write is called the Problem/ Solution paper. This weekend, as you finish up your Summary/ Eval/ Response paper, be thinking about a problem that you'd like to think more deeply about solving.

Here are a selection of sources that point to problems. You could use one of these, or come up with your own. Note: I prohibit gun-control related papers.

"Humans Need Not Apply" video by CGP Grey.

"Injustice in Ferguson, Long Before Michael Brown" from Bloomberg's Business Week.

"The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes" by Hank G.

"Incarceration Nation" By CNN

"The Skills Gap" by Siemens

"Alcohol is Still the Deadliest Drug in the United States, and It’s Not Even Close" The Washington Post

Homework:

1. Final Version of your Summary/ Eval/ Response due with ALL yellow sheets.

2. Daybooks Due.

3. Look through the problem examples and be thinking about your next paper.

4. TWFTD: riot in OED.

Draft #2 Summary/ Eval/ Response

Upload your draft to Turnitin.

Every paper should now cite the article in the introduction. [ Give author and title.]

Every paper should have BOTH quotation and paraphrase going on. It should be clear which ideas belong to whom. This is tricky if your author mentions information from OTHER people.

Your opinion is part of both the evaluation and the response. Can your reader tell what you are doing?


Homework:

1. Look carefully at the matches in Turnitin and make sure that your quotes have quotation marks, and your paraphrasing is unique to you.

2. TWFTD:  plagiarism in OED. Can you figure out the original meaning of the word (in Latin)?

Mindmapping Some More

First of all, we look at Turnitin in Moodle. Upload your draft there, to see how it works. You will upload tomorrow's draft into Part 2 by the end of class tomorrow. We are looking for a 5-15% match for this paper. That means you ARE quoting and paraphrasing appropriately.

BTW, are we all clear on the difference between quoting and paraphrasing?

Then you return to your text2mindmap project of outlining Bedford Ch. 22.  When you finish all sections of the chapter, choose DOWNLOAD PDF and print for the next daybook check.

Homework:

1. Draft #2 Summary/ Evaluation/ Response Due. Have it as close to done as possible so that Turnitin will help you.

2. Be ready to upload the efile of your draft into Turnitin in Moodle.

3. TWFTD: your choice from Bedford or article.

Draft #1 Due of Summary/ Evaluation/ Response

I return the Agger summaries. Many people did NOT:

1. Construct an introduction.

2. Mention the source of Agger's information. He was NOT sharing his ideas, he was mostly doing summary/ reaction about Nielson's research.

Fill out the Writer's Page about your draft.

I pass out the comment sheets, and you gather into groups. Read and fill out sheets.

Homework:

1. Work on revising your draft.

2. TWFTD:  your choice from Bedford Ch. 22.

How Writers Develop Their Ideas

Open up The Bedford Guide to Chapter 22.

Now click on this link: https://www.text2mindmap.com/

This chapter is full of information that can help you create a paper AND analyze the writing of others.

Your task is to read and outline this chapter using text2mindmap.  I show you how to use the thing.

The red heading from the book will be headings in the mindmap. Under each you should type at least TWO quotes from the section that are key "explainers" of the heading.

I strongly recommend that you read a section, then type your notes, then go on to the next. We will save and work on these in class again Wednesday.

Homework:

1. Draft 1 due tomorrow of your Summary/ Evaluation/ Response paper.

2. TWFTD: evocative from Bedford Ch. 22.