The CRAAP Test

You will be using online sources both to explain your problem and defend your solution/s.

The most important part of that process is taking the time to choose carefully the sources you use.

Use The CRAAP Test when you do so. The CRAAP Test Prezi.

1. Take notes in your daybook.

2. Get a copy of the CRAAP Test Worksheet.

3. Use that sheet to score TWO different sources that you have visited online about your topic. Write on the one sheet for both sites (label two columns?) and come up with a final score for each.

If you have done NO web investigating on your topic, start googling.


Homework:

1. Finish the above activity using the CRAAP Test. This will be due Friday with the daybook check.

2. Draft 2 of your Problem/ Solution paper is due tomorrow, typed, in essay format.  

3. At some point tomorrow you will also turn in the e-file of the paper in Turnitin through Moodle. You will be able to see how you're doing with paraphrasing/quoting source information.

4.  TWFTD: relevance in OED see def. #3.

Draft #1 Due Problem/ Solution

Thinkwrite:  How often do you change your mind? Can you think of a recent example? What does it take to change your mind?

Today you read drafts and give feedback.

Homework:

1. Revise and improve your paper. Please think of the audience of your paper as someone who would take the opposite view of the problem from you. If you don't like your topic, you may change it, but get busy. Draft #2 is due Thursday.

2. TWFTD: fact in OED

Using Evidence

Thinkwrite: Your brother is shopping for a car. He has found two cars on Craigslist that he likes. You think one of them is a horrible choice. What kind of evidence will you present to him to prevent a BIG MISTAKE on his part?

Read pages 40-42 in Bedford. Let's sort them.

How about evidence for your problem/ solution? As you draft this paper, include links to ANY sources you use.

Now we look at another example of this kind of writing: Bedford pages 187-189.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 Problem/ Solution is due tomorrow. Look for evidence online to help you make your points. Just put hyperlinks to your sources in the draft as you write. 

2. TWFTD: rehabilitation