Close Reading

You are working on Solo #3 (yellow handout yesterday). Here is the assignment sheet for the last project with feedback, Problem/ Solution with Sources (bright yellow, aka goldenrod).

Schedule for the next weeks.

Now, what do you do to your article, once you find it?

Print, read  and annotate your article. Use Google to verify?

Annotation: 
1. Chunk the text. 
2.  Circle key words -- especially if they are repeated.
3. Underline and define any terms you are uncertain of meaning.
4. Left margin: short summary of each chunk.
5. Right margin: use an -ing verb to describe what the writer is doing in each chunk. (Explaining? Describing? Defining? Comparing? Contrasting? Ranting? )

Begin filling out the CRAAP test worksheet on it, as well. Comment on as many of the questions as possible. This will be part of the last daybook check.

(http://www.juniata.edu/services/library/instruction/handouts/craap_worksheet.pdf)

Homework:

1. Tomorrow (Friday) is a work day. Continue annotating and evaluating your article. Class will not meet (I am serving on an interview team).

2. On Monday your Summary/ Evaluation of the article is due. You must turn in the annotated hard copy of the article with ONE printed copy of your essay (MLA style). You should have a Works Cited page with this paper, as well.

2. TWFTD: your choice from your article.

Problem/ Solution Due--Database Intro

Hand in your papers.

1. Meet Mike Mulligan! Which leads to this article.

2. One source of credible material is a library database. (Maybe. CRAAP test still necessary.)

Go to The Hub and click on the Library (LRC) link (bottom of MENU items on top left).

We will all look at the top two databases, specifically Gale.

3. I hand out the assignment sheet for the last Solo paper.

You will have some time tomorrow to look for and print out an article on your topic.

Homework:

1. You are looking for an article in the database that you can write Solo #3 about AND use in your Problem/ Solution with Sources.

2. TWFTD: annotate in OED.

Daybooks Due

Papers returned.
1. Copy down strength and weakness.
2. What is your most common proofreading error?
3. Copy out an example of a sentence you wrote that uses subordination to connect two clauses. 

How is your use of quotation marks? Which is correct?

a.  According to Jones, the Hulk is "overgendered and undersocialized, half-naked and half-witted, raging against a frightened world that misunderstood and persecuted him".

b. According to Jones, the Hulk is "overgendered and undersocialized, half-naked and half-witted, raging against a frightened world that misunderstood and persecuted him."

c. Jones describes one example, "a middle-class 'nice girl'," in order to demonstrate just how serious he is.

d.  Jones describes one example, "a middle-class "nice girl"," in order to demonstrate just how serious he is.

See Everyday Writer Sec. 43.

 Put paper in TurnItIn. Proofread.

Daybooks due.

Homework:

1. Your Final Version Problem/ Solution paper is due tomorrow. Please bring all drafts and comment sheets to class, with one printed copy of your final version.