Evidence

Number in your daybook from 1-3. Write down your own answers as you watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVlaEbpJ7k   

(Mr. Rosling's sources: http://www.gapminder.org/)

Thinkwrite: Where do you get your "facts"? How do you know facts are facts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge

Get out your Bedford Guide book: read pages 40-42. We discuss.

Think about your Problem/ Solution paper and the kinds of evidence you are using to support your view of the problem.  Are you using strong sources for evidence? What are your own preconceptions? Are you using others' opinions?

See page 43 to doublecheck what you use as evidence.

Or, check here:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/24/happy-birthday-politifact-politifact-turns-8/

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/online_tools_for_skeptical_fact_checking 

Homework:

1. Create Draft #2 of your Problem/ Solution paper. You may use other sources. Please do cite them as best you know how. I will not be grading you on how you cite sources; that will come on the second version of this paper, due at the end of the quarter.

2. Be prepared to upload your draft into TurnItIn again, so you can tell how well you are paraphrasing information from other sources.

3. TWFTD:  preconception in the OED