Problem/Solution Part 2

You need The Bedford Guide for class today.

Open your daybook to last night's brainstorm about problems.

Thinkwrite:  Start telling a short story involving an imaginary person facing one of the problems you brainstormed about. Be descriptive.

Do you know Jay-Z? His is a story of growing up surrounded by problems. We read it.

Here's a problem/solution presentation: INCarceration Nation

Now let's look at an example of a problem/solution essay on the same topic. Bedford Guide pages 185-187.

You answer these questions in Bedford about the reading: Q. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 on page 187.

Homework:

1. Read the assignment sheet for your next paper. Be ready to answer questions about it.

2. Be deciding what you will write this next paper about.

3. TWFTD: incarcerate in OED

Problem/Solution

Neither book is needed today.

We are surrounded by Problem/Solution presentations. Here are two:

Copyright: Forever Less One Day

Thinkwrite:  What does CGP Grey think the problem is? What is his solution?

The Problem with Patents  Open this on your screen and make it a size you can read.

Questions:

1. What do you think is the main problem with the company Intellectual Ventures?

2. What are TWO problems that currently exist in our patent system?

3. Does this infographic propose any solutions?

4. What do you think could be done to solve some of these problems with the patent system?



Begin thinking about a problem that is bothering you. It can be personal (and expand into a larger topic). It cannot be so big that you have no personal connection with it. Could you discuss its causes and impact? Can you think of possible solutions? (Note: since I'm reading/grading these, gun control  is not an option. It is painful to grade papers on that topic.)

Homework:

1. Spend a half-page brainstorming about possible topics that you could write  a substantial Problem/Solution paper about.

2. TWFTD: ethical in OED

Intellectual Property

Hand in your papers.

In your daybook, define plagiarism. How does it relate to intellectual property?

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

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. Identify one problem relating to intellectual property (or plagiarism) that you are familiar with. Write a paragraph that describes what that problem is and some of its effects.

2. TWFTD: patent in OED.