EasyBib for Kickstarter

Let's look again at the example paper.

Fun with figurative language:  Why English Teachers Die Young. Note that snopes.com is one place to find out the truth of some internet oddities.

Take the handout and copy down your two favorite "lame analogies" in your daybook. BE SURE TO CREDIT THE SOURCE --THE PERSON WHO MADE IT UP.

We cite the source because of this: Joe was frustrated, like a man who thought his claim to fame was occasional appearances in a weekly humor contest, but in fact is known to millions as a stupid high school student who writes unintentionally humorous bad analogies. (Joseph Romm, Washington)

Next 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. Note: Use the closing date of the Kickstarter for its date of publication.

Homework:

1. Your Solo Paper #1 is due tomorrow. Bring the blue assignment sheet (that has the grading rubric) to hand in with your printed paper.

2. TWFTD: ubiquitous

Language Use in Kickstarter

Thinkwrite: Hopefully, you have made some progress on the paper due Thursday. Take some time now to explain what YOU think are the required characteristics (or criteria, or elements) for a successful Kickstarter presentation. (Note: this is what your paper is about.)

We look at Everyday Writer Sec. 23. Slang? Being pompous? Euphemistic? Using jargon? How formal should a Kickstarter essay be?

How about using specific and concrete language? Let's transform "We took a test."
Do Ex. 23.5 on page 267, writing the answers in your daybook.

How about metaphors and similes? http://www.ted.com/talks/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking?language=en

Now I explain the "Language Use in Kickstarter" assignment in our class in Moodle. It is due Monday Aug. 3. [Go to Moodle, scroll to the highlighted section, click on "Language Use in Kickstarter." Directions are on the sheet that downloads.]

Homework:

1. Continue working on your paper, due Thursday. Refer to the helpful information in Ch.21 Bedford as you think about your introduction/ conclusion/ transitions/connections.

2. Keep an eye out for the items on the "Language Use in Kickstarter" as you think about your examples.

3. TWFTD: synesthesia 

Thinking about Kickstarter Campaigns

We look  at the forum questions from Friday.

1. 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: What can we look for in a Kickstarter's campaign to help decide whether a Kickstarter project has the ability to actually produce its product?

Now on to the topic of writing/ language use.

2. Open The Everyday Writer to Section 23a-d. This section is FULL of nomenclature relating to writing. Take notes in your daybook over these sections. Write down each green heading and then explain it in your own words. Tomorrow there will be an assignment using this information.


Homework:

1. Complete taking notes on Section 23a-d in Everyday Writer.

2. Be working on your Solo Paper #1.

3. TWFTD: your choice from Section 23 in Everyday Writer.

Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse