Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Sum/ Eval/ Response Paper Due

Turn in your Final Version with all drafts and comment sheets.

Critical Thinking practice: problems.

Define plagiarism in your own words.

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

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Identify a problem in this story. State it.

Helene

2. Why so different? Is there a problem here?State it.

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the "right" outcome? Is there a problem here?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Is there a problem?

If the courts are in charge...

Down Under

Comparison.

5. Do you see a problem here?

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"?  Is there a problem?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1. Be thinking about problems that interest you. Your next paper is a "Problem" paper. You choose the problem. (One prohibition: gun control as a problem.) Possible ideas:  issues with emissions/ fuel/ consumers.  GMOs. Global trade issues. Technology? Robotics? What's a problem that's bugging you? Politics?

2. TWFTD:  intellectual property from Wikipedia?

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Preventing Accidental Plagiarism

What's plagiarism, again?

 But what about this: http://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes   

Thinkwrite: Do you agree or disagree with this short? Explain.

But you "Always give credit where...."

Not only do you need to quote accurately, you must avoid this tricky problem:

Student paraphrase: He is scarcely able to hold a knife to a raw chicken, let alone someone’s throat.

Staples' essay:  As a softy who is scarcely able to take a knife to a raw chicken -- let alone hold one to a person' throat -- I was ....

How would you fix this situation?

Now we see what TurnItIn can do to help you check that you are citing your sources clearly.

Open your draft in the Turnitin document reader.
In your daybook, copy down one of YOUR sentences that uses coordination to connect two or more clauses, and one sentence that uses subordination to connect two clauses.

You have time to do some final proofreading/editing and create your bibliography page using EasyBib.

Homework:

1. The Final Version of Summary/ Evaluation/ Response is due tomorrow. Bring ALL drafts/ comment sheets to turn in.

2. TWFTD:  stint in OED (used in Kate's example paper).

Monday, February 15, 2016

Draft #2 Due

We go over the sub/ coord worksheet.

You post your draft in TurnItIn in moodle.

You read each others' drafts.

DAYBOOKS DUE.

Homework:

1. Work on your paper. If you make large changes, submit the newer version to TurnItIn in Part 2 .