Draft #2 Due of Problem/ Solution

You'll read two drafts.

When you finish, read pages 380-381in Everyday Writer. Do Ex. 36.1 by rewriting into your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish the above grammar assignment.

2. Create the Final Version of your Problem/ Solution paper, due Weds. Sept. 9.

3. TWFTD: unintended consequences as a phrase

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

Draft #1 Problem/ Solution

You will read two drafts and fill out comment sheets.

When you are done, read "It's Not Just a Bike" by Lacey Taylor on pages 190-191 of Bedford. Please answer the comment sheet questions about her essay in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish answering the comment sheet questions about "It's Not Just a Bike" in your daybook.

2. Read the feedback you were given, and work on Draft #2, due Thursday. Come talk to me at coffee break in my office if you'd like help.

3. TWFTD:  incorrigible in OED.

Examples of P/S Writing

 From a job requirements list for a Manufacturing Engineer opening:

* Communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in a logical, organized and coherent manner. Ideas are well developed with supporting information and examples.

 * Can be creative problem solver.

 * Breaks down information into fundamental parts using a systematic approach.

Thinkwrite: Explain what the problem is you are writing  this paper about; discuss the causes of that problem. Or what questions do you need to ask/answer in order to discuss the causes?

From Ch. 4 of https://www.cga.ct.gov/pri/archives/2001ricreport.htm

Bedford Guide p. 187.

In your daybooks, groups discuss and answer Q. 2, 5, 7, 8, 9.

Pathos/ Ethos/ Logos ?

Homework:

1. Draft #1 is due tomorrow. Bring a draft that discusses the problem and has a couple ideas about a solution.

2. TWFTD: rehabilitation in OED.