EasyBib for Solo Paper #1

I return the daybooks. We discuss the Language Use in Kickstarter worksheet.

Solo Paper #1 is due tomorrow. Come to class with an electronic copy of the finished paper. Either have it saved on the N drive, or in Moodle files, or attached to an email to yourself. You will hand that copy in using Moodle AND print a hard copy during class. Be sure to bring the purple grading rubric to hand in with your paper.

Thinkwrite: You have been doing some thinking about Kickstarter. Tell me, what do YOU think is necessary to make an effective Kickstarter? Explain. (Note: this is what your paper due tomorrow is about.)

Together we'll use EasyBib to create a Works Cited page for the paper due tomorrow. You are to list any Kickstarters that you discuss in your paper.

Homework:

1. Solo #1 Review of Two Kickstarters is due tomorrow. Bring an electronic copy of the finished paper.You will hand that copy in using Moodle AND print a hard copy during class. Be sure to bring the purple grading rubric to hand in with your paper.

2. TWFTD: provocative (found in Bedford ch. 21).

An Example Paper for Solo #1

First of all, I show you how to hand in your e-file worksheet in the forum in Moodle.

Those of you with paper copies, keep them in your daybook to hand in at the end of class.

Now, we go to Moodle to download the Example Analysis paper there.

1. I want you to rename your copy of the example paper. Type your LAST NAME in front of its name when you do "save as".
2. You are going to use the highlight tool to colorize your copy.
3. Make the title red.
4. Make the introduction and conclusion pink.
5. When the paper discusses example #1, make it yellow. This includes parts of sentences.
6. When the paper discusses example #2, make it pale blue, also including parts of sentences.
7. When the paper discusses BOTH AT ONCE, make it green.
8. Underline the words that refer to the Key Elements being compared. {These are the topics of the paragraphs.}
9. Italicize the thesis or main idea of the whole paper.
10. Make the hook and the clincher bold.

There is some nomenclature going on in the list above-- be sure to ask if you are not sure.

If you finish before the others, use the time to be taking notes about two Kickstarters.

At the end of class, we will upload the colorized document into the same forum in Moodle where you turned in the worksheet today.

Leave your daybooks. Make sure your name is visible on it.

Homework:

1. Read Ch. 21 in The Bedford Guide, pages 420-435. These pages have helpful advice for writing your solo assignment.

2. Decide on two Kickstarters, take notes about them, and begin writing your Solo #1 paper (pale purple sheet).

Figuring Out Context for a Kickstarter

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/05/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-the-illusion-of-products-can-mislead-customers-about-the-realities-of-business/

This caused me to follow the link about the T-shirt. Which brought me back to Kickstarter.

Thinkwrite: How can we tell whether a Kickstarter project has the ability to actually produce its product?

I hand out the assignment sheet for the Solo paper due next Tuesday.


Homework:

1. Finish the "Language Use in Kickstarter" assignment due tomorrow.

2. Finalize your choice of two Kickstarters to write about, and begin the steps of creating Solo Assignment #1. Start with taking a page of notes in your daybook. Then begin identifying Key Elements and levels of effectiveness. If you wish to do this over the weekend, you can add the page of notes into your daybook when I return it.

3. Daybooks are due tomorrow, Friday. I will return them Monday.

3. TWFTD: your choice from a Kickstarter.