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View this link for the screen capture lecture on creating Works Cited entries for online sources.
An example:
Works Cited
Matchan, Linda. “Kitty on Top: Her unparalleled popularity at 30 keeps on
showing that
she had us at Hello.” The Boston Globe 28 Oct. 2004. 7 Mar. 2008
<http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2004/10/28/kitty_on_top/>.
McVeigh, Brian. “How Hello Kitty Commodifies the Cute, Cool and Camp:
‘Consumutopia’ versus ‘Control’ in Japan.” Journal of Material Culture 5.2
(2000): 225-246. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Bowling Green St.
Univ. Lib., OH. 18 Feb. 2008
<http://0?search.ebscohost.com.maurice.bgsu.edu/login.asp?profile=web&d
efaultdb=aph>.
Hot tips:
* Works Cited always has the title “Works Cited” if there is more than one source listed.
* Works Cited pages are ALWAYS in alphabetical order and are always double-spaced.
* Use make sure your Works Cited page has proper and exact punctuation.
* Entries that have volume and issue numbers do NOT include Vol. and Issue. It’s just the numbers.
* Library Research Databases just include the home page url, not the url for the specific article that is cited.
March 7th, 2008
View this link for the screen capture lecture on finding credible “outside” sources.
Hot Tips:
* Review Chapter 6’s “Evaluating Internet Sources” in From Inquiry to Academic Writing for more information.
* Always make sure you can identify an author, the organization that supports the site, and the date the site was created BEFORE using the source in your essay.
* Sources such as Wikipedia are NEVER appropriate academic sources.
March 7th, 2008
The Components:
Everything we do in class from here on out will bring us closer to our Researched Essays. Essentially, every piece of writing is building up to our Researched Essays.
The Proposal: A paper proposal clearly stating the issue you are going to write on, you thesis and your argument’s approach as well as a few sources you’re thinking about using
The Source Analysis: A Compare-Contrast Essay about two of the sources you’ll be using in the Researched Essay. The Source Analysis, essentially, is a mini-essay to help us consider connections between sources and practice synthesis once more before heading into The Researched Essay. Ideally, I’d like you to view the Source Analysis as a possible main point for the Researched Essay or at least some writing that could be folded into the Researched Essay.
The Researched Essay: The Final Product of all your hard work.
Presentation: A “virtual” presentation of your Researched Paper.
Hot Tips:
1.) Pick a Topic that is Important to YOU!
2.) Stay away from cliched topics such as abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia, the war in Iraq, etc.
3.) Use Google and Wikipedia for searching possible topics, NOT as sources for The Researched Essay. (Be sure to check out the sources Wikipedia cites for their information. You may find a credible sources among those.)
4.) Look through magazines related to the issues you’re interested in or talk to people who might have more information on issues that interest you. Watch TV. Go for a walk. Non-research activities such as these are important to research too. They can clear your mind and help you arrive at an idea.
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February 13th, 2008
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Article Title Here Article Title Here Article Title Here Article Title Here
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Use this table/grid/rubric to decide which articles have themes that relate to one another. If an article has a theme mentioned, place an “x” in the box next to the theme and under the article title. There’s spaces provided for you to add more possible themes.
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Topic Ideas to Consider
• What are the benefits of technology? How can technology be “helpful”?
• If technology does make us “lazy”, what might be the benefits of that?
• Does popular culture shape attitudes toward racial, gender, sexual, or other stereotyping?
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Hot Tip!: Be thinking of possible issues regarding themes you are noticing between sources because they will help lead you to a thesis statement. What questions are coming to mind as you find common themes? What questions are important enough to you to become possible thesis statements? These questions also might lead you to a working thesis. Remember, your thesis for this essay should be argumentative.
Common Themes Lecture [3:12m]:
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December 20th, 2007
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Here are a few examples of proper citations. Note where the punctuation goes!
Author’s last name, first name. Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title. Date: pages it appears on.
Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Academic Journal Title. Volume.Issue (Year): Page Numbers.
Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Website date published. Date you accessed site.
For more information on the Works Cited page, refer to pages 572-598 in your Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers.
Note: Titles can be underlined or italicized; just be sure to be consistent with either one you choose.
Hot Tip!: For Essay 1, we’re using an Article in a Collection of Reprinted Articles.
If you look in the RED section of our Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers, which is the MLA section, on what page can you find how to cite this article? What number is it? Look to the clue I gave you beside Hot Tip!
Works Cited Lecture [2:26m]:
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December 19th, 2007
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Hard copy example: In his article “Creating Common Ground: Common Reading and the First Year of College” Micheal Ferguson, AAC&U senior staff writer and associate editor of Peer Review, argues, “Common reading programs also supplement small-group discussions with other orientation activities. Campuses sometimes introduce new students to library research by showing them how to locate resources related to the common reading, its author, and the issues it raises” (9).
Online example: In his ONLINE article “Creating Common Ground: Common Reading and the First Year of College” Micheal Ferguson, AAC&U senior staff writer and associate editor of Peer Review, argues, “Common reading programs also supplement small-group discussions with other orientation activities. Campuses sometimes introduce new students to library research by showing them how to locate resources related to the common reading, its author, and the issues it raises.”
Hot Tip!: For this essay, you will ONLY be using an article from our textbook. Therefore, you will be using the Hard Copy example ONLY. For future essays, you will need to know how to site online sources.
For more information on parenthetical citations (of hard sources and online sources), refer to pages 564-571 in your Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers.
Parenthetical Citation Lecture [4:39m]:
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December 19th, 2007
Hot Tips!
1.) Check out the Instructor Evaluation Rubric under the Portfolio button in our Blackboard site.
2.) Trust your gut. Make evaluations that are sincere.
3.) Learning what are NOT appropriate criteria may help you more quickly understand what’s appropriate. Check out The NOT list:
A.) “It’s hard.”
B.) “It’s too long.”
C.) “It’s stupid.”
D.) “It’s boring.”
If you find yourself thinking in terms of inappropriate criteria, turn on your critical thinking skills and see if you can’t reword them to become appropriate criteria. Check out the YES list:
A.) “The word choices in the article are not appropriate for novices to the subject because they are not clearly defined and explained.”
B.) “The article repeats the same concepts and ideas, therefore making it an unnecessarily long read.”
C.) “The article’s content does not relate to a specific audience.” (Make sure you name that audience.
D.) “The lack of sentence variety and monotonous descriptions may deter some audience members from understanding the meaning of the article.”
4.) Look to our class wiki and discussion board for more ideas.
December 19th, 2007
