Editing and Intellectual Property

Short essay on observation.  I return yours.  You read and score it in your daybook.

Give it a score from 5 down to 2 in these categories:
Beginning
Main Idea
Organization
Development
Conclusion
Punc/Sp/Grammar

Then decide on an overall score which combines all these:

Then I give you your score sheet.  In your daybook comment on the differences between scores, and my comments, and what you think about your essay as you read it now.

Now, you get the new topic for a short essay, due tomorrow.
 
We look at two videos.  The first is a little radical. The second is very radical.


Then,


TurnItIn for your Informing MLA Style draft:  upload and edit.  Ask me any questions you might have about editing.

Homework:

1.  The Final Version of your Informing paper is due tomorrow.  Bring all related sheets.

2.  During class you will type up a short  five paragraph essay on Intellectural Property -- see the prompt.

3.  No words this week.

Draft #2 Due

First of all, remember why you're writing this paper?  Practice at this. 

But look at the site where this was made. And here is another video of theirs. 

Take some time for a "thinkwrite" on this topic.  If making copies isn't stealing, why is it illegal?  Should this change?  How will video game companies be convinced that copying their games is not stealing them?

Now you read drafts.  Get out the writer's page from Monday, answer the question about your thesis or point (it does NOT have to be stated in the introduction).  But by the end of the paper we should know what your point was.

Homework:

1.  Work on the final version of this Informing Paper.  The Final Version is due Tuesday. On Monday you will post this paper on TurnItIn, so have an electronic version available.

2.  You should have 5 words of your own for TWFTD this week.  Be sure you have a quote showing how the word was used originally.

EasyBib

Mike Mulligan leads to this.

Today you continue to work on your draft for tomorrow.  It is time to put the information from your sources into EasyBib. Hey, come up with a GREAT hook! Give us lots of vivid details, please, especially if you're writing about a trip or a place.  Do NOT bore us with "and then we..."

On Monday you will upload the draft to TurnItIn, so be prepared with the electronic file.

Homework:

1.  Draft #2 due tomorrow.  It must have a Works Cited page with at least two sources on it.

2.  TWFTD:  5 words this week, your choice, from your sources. The next daybook check is not until Dec. 2.