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Current Reading:
Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers
"Chapter
Six: Investigating" and "Chapter Eight:
Evaluating"
The Perfect
Storm: "The
Barrel of the Gun" |
"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and
fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and
strength of purpose and particular skill."
Edmund Morrison
EXPLANATORY ESSAY DUE TODAY
Agenda for Today:
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We'll look at some video from Turnitin.com. |
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12.1. Create your account at Turnitin.com. Follow
directions here.
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12.2 Review the Compare and
Contrast PowerPoint.
Review the following:
criteria
judgment
evidence
Make certain you understand the outlines for
SEQUENCING and for BLOCKING/or CHUNKING. It is best to
copy down the outline format, since you'll need it in a
minute. Then review the EXAMPLES of Chunking
and Sequencing below. Plug each example into your
outline format, identifying the CRITERIA, JUDGMENT (if you
find it) and EVIDENCE/EXAMPLES/ILLUSTRATIONS OF THOSE
CRITERIA. Examples of
Chunking and Sequencing (or on a day when your teacher
is tired, "Cheeking and Sunquencing!"). |
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Do some planning for your Evaluation Essay. Fill out the "Evaluating Essay Collecting and Shaping
Handout." This will
help remind your about the critera, evaluations, and judgments needed in your
paper, and may also serve as an outline. |
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Hacker site quizzes: Under "research exercises", click
"MLA" and take the first two avoiding plagiarism quizzes.
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| View presentation on
Writing Arguments. |
| Review Timeline and assignment for persuasive research
paper. |
| Do a library search
for a possible topic for your
persuasive research paper.
ëCreate
a Working Bibliography (Works Cited) page either writing by hand or using the
computers. Use correct MLA style. You should have at least four entries, but
of course you need to expand your research further to write your paper.
ëWrite a VERY DESCRIPTIVE title.
ëIf you run out of things to do, work
on creating an outline, a logical plan, or a first page for your paper. |
Homework:
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Read
"Investigating" in your text and "The
Barrel of the Gun"
in The Perfect Storm. Watch for writing techniques that we have
studied (spatial order, chronological order, definition, classification, etc.)
and underline them if you find them.
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Have Evaluation Essay first draft ready for peer review.
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Check timeline for Research paper to see what is due Wednesday.
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