Agenda:

–Conferences

–Source Quality (#5: Rhetorical Analysis. Students can gain points if they state something like:

“this is a high quality source because of the following reasons: the author is named: Edith Wharton is a post-doctoral researcher at North Texas University; she provides a contact email that is associated with a university (EWharton@email.texas.university.edu) she has published 23 articles on the topic of handwriting and intelligence; the journal (Frontiers of Higher Education) is a peer reviewed journal published by Duke University Press; her article has 59 endnotes; the article has been cited 19 times by other scholars; her language seems balanced; and even though the language is academic, the effort here is to provide cutting-edge research without bias.”

—Preparation for Quiz 2

Example: MLA Citation

Witt, Stephen. “How Jenson Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the AI Revolution.” New Yorker, 28

Nov. 2023. newyorker.magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-

ai-revolution. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.

Example: Sentence introducing a direct quotation

When researching AI, it may be helpful to know that in Stephen Witt’s “How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is Powering the AI Revolution,” in May of 2023, “Nvidia’s value increased by about two hundred billion dollars.”

Example: Sentence introducing a direct quotation

Stephen Witt cites an unnamed Wall Street analyst who said, when speaking about the scary power and value of Jensen Huang’s Nvidia, “‘There’s a war going on out there in A.I., and Nvidia is the only arms dealer’” (“How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the AI Revolution”).

 

Homework:

1–Bring your revised RAB and the graded RAB for conferences: A good goal is to have 20 substantial changes made; make sure to highlight the changes on the new draft.

2–Prepare for Quiz 2: citations and incorporating quotations into your own writing.