Editing and Proofreading

Thinkwrite: Yesterday I asked you to decide how much money you would invest based on the presentation, not the idea itself. How successful were you at doing this? Explain. Can you think of any real-world situations where presentation might be more powerful than the actual product/idea?

Use Turnitin to help you find trouble; also use feedback, or get more.

Please note:

1. You may increase heading size to font 14.

2. Think about how to attribute the sources for your pictures. (Intellectual property!) A note at the end? Of course, on Kickstarter itself, the assumption is they created any pictures for their own product, so the images / video belong to them as well.

3. If you make changes to your paper and want to submit again in Moodle, use Part 2, and send me a message so I will open it for you to see. This is NOT REQUIRED.

Homework:

1. Final Version is due Friday at the beginning of class. Be sure to bring ALL related comment sheets and drafts.

2. TWFTD: "I never look at a movie review before I go see a movie." Use the OED to find a definition for "review" as used in this quote. Give the number of the definition when you do so.

Draft #2 Crowd-Funded Project

We go to Moodle and I show you how to upload your current draft.

Get out your hard copy. On it, draw a star next to the heading of each required element. This is to help your readers find them.

I pass out the comment sheets. We look these over so you know what you are looking for.

Note: Focus your feedback on the presentation, the document, NOT the actual project idea.

You each read and provide feedback for two projects.

Homework:

1. Get your draft uploaded into Moodle/Turnitin. After I look at it, it should become visible to you. Tomorrow class time will be spent on editing/ proofreading.

2. TWFTD: intellectual property (as a phrase)  not in OED

Intellectual Property

"Regular practice simply isn't enough. To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes."     Joshua Foer

I return the Lego paper.

In your daybook,  define plagiarism.  Do you know of any real-world examples? These can be across genres.

Here's a definition. School vs. real world? Three flavors?

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Why did the publisher cancel her contract and destroy her books? Do you think this was appropriate?

 Helene

 2. Why was this outcome SO DIFFERENT?

 Herr Guttenberg

  3. Was this the right outcome for a politician, for Germany?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

 Book covers? 

      4. Was this a case of theft?  Who decides?

 If the courts are in charge... 

       5. Do you agree with the Australian Supreme Court ruling?

If there's time....better news, for some:  music...  TV   iTunes 

       6.  Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow your Draft 2 is due.  Bring one hard copy (or two if you prefer). Also, have access to the computer file of your paper so you can upload it into our class in Moodle -- I'll show you how. 

2. TWFTD: nebulous.