Week 9:

• Dates: Monday, 10/30 and Wednesday, 11/1
• Meeting Info: This course meets in person for 100 minutes twice per week, Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:00-1:40pm, in Namm 602A. By the end of each week, I will post an agenda that will outline the next week’s work. It will include instructions for you and links to readings, discussion questions, and other work. We will work on developing community both in our classroom and in our online written community.

Objectives

• To draft introductions and conclusions for Project 2
• To continue Project 2 research
• To draft citations and annotations for our sources
• To revise our research questions as needed

To Do Before Week 9

Just in case you haven’t already, please:

• Catch up on any readings or discussions you’ve missed–you can review the Weekly Class Agendas to see what we covered.
• Be sure to share your research question, introduction, first source, and next sources to allow me to give you feedback as you work.
• Check your midsemester grade
• If you haven’t yet submited Project 1: Education Narrative and the cover letter (paper copy distributed in class), please reach out to me to discuss a plan.

To-Do This Week

Monday, 10/30

Texts:

• texts for your research project–remember you want to read more than 4 to find the best sources for your project.
• Writing/Rhetoric resource video: “Ethos, Pathos & Logos” from Texas A&M Writing Center
• Writing/Rhetoric resource video: “How to use rhetoric to get what you want” TED Ed

Writing:

• draft citations and annotations for your final two sources for Project 2
• Begin drafting your conclusion, using the Project 2 details and the sample Reflective Annotated Bibliographies to guide you. Share your draft in a discussion about RAB conclusions.

In Class:

• CHANGE IN DUE DATE: drafts (as complete as possible!) still due in class for Wednesday, 11/1. Final versions due on our site by the start of class on Monday, 11/6 so we can write cover letters in class.
• share NYTimes account information
• What belongs in the conclusion to Project 2?
  • review the Project 2 details
  • consult with the Reflective Annotated Bibliography examples
    • “Black Holes” by Hashim Khan
    • “Why Haven’t we Found a Cure for Diabetes?”  (uncredited)
    • “When a School is a Cemetery” by Sabina Uddin, in City Tech Writer
  • What do they do that we want to do? What do they leave out that we want to do? What do they do that we want to leave out?
• Evaluating sources
  • are they recent? time period: eg early middle late pandemic
  • are they relevant? to your topic/question, and to you
  • are they reliable, both its information and its security?
  • does it add to your knowledge base?
  • is it from a known source/author?
  • can you verify the information?
  • purpose and intended audience, authority and credibility, accuracy and reliability, currency and timeliness, and objectivity or bias
• What kinds of sources are we finding?
  • how do we know if we want to use a source?
  • genres
  • quality
• How do we connect to our audience?
  • Writing/Rhetoric resource video: “Ethos, Pathos & Logos” from Texas A&M Writing Center

• Writing/Rhetoric resource video: “How to use rhetoric to get what you want” TED Ed

• How do we incorporate information evaluating our sources in our annotations? In the rhetorical analysis or in the reflection.
• Spend some time adding to your annotation to take these new ideas (evaluating sources, plus the three appeals–logos, ethos, pathos) into account.

Wednesday, 11/1

Texts:

• texts for your research project–remember you want to read more than 4 to find the best sources for your project.
• review your draft and your classmates’ drafts

Writing:

• continue drafting Project 2

In Class:

• peer review
• You can visit the Writing Center in G608. or on the Writing Center’s OpenLab site
• Remember you can go to the Library website and use the Ask A Librarian for 24-7 support.
• Also, you can go to the Reference Desk in the library to get help or make an appointment to get help. If you want to meet with Eirini specifically, she’s available M/W/F 9am-2pm on the reference desk.
• These were the databases we learned about: Pubmed; SpringerLink ejournals; Business Source Complete; Academic Search Complete; Gale Academic OneFile Select; for media: ArtSTOR, AVON; for video: Kanopy (for documentaries), SWANK (movies); NexisUni for news sources and more; New York Times Digital, New York Times Historical.
• How to submit Project 2:
  • Write a post (like you did for Project 1)
  • in your post, include all of the parts of Project 2 (even if you worked on them in different documents, you can copy and paste from all of them into your post
  • choose the category Project 2 Work
  • consider adding a tag
  • Publish your post by the start of class on 11/8

• Checklists:
• What belongs in the introduction? Use the detailed instructions and also the grading criteria to make a list of what you need to do
  • Introduce your research topic and question.
  • Explain how or why you got interested in your question.
  • Explain what you already know as a foundation for your research.
  • Explain what you expect to find in your research (a hypothesis).
  • Write this in paragraph format (1-3 paragraphs, approximately 300 words)
  • Content: Is it readable and informative? Does it teach us about the topic?
  • Presentation: Can someone else understand what you’ve written? Did you use formatting to help a reader make sense of your writing?
  • Citation: If you quote something in your introduction that’s from any of your sources or one of our readings, did you cite it? Do your citations include enough information for someone else to find that resource? Do you link out to your source or use parenthetical citations?
• Citations for 4 sources
  • are you using MLA or APA?
  • Did you find out which is used in your field eg Nursing uses APA
  • did you follow the citation formatting for your chosen style?
• Annotations:
  • a summary of the source’s content
  • a brief rhetorical analysis
  • your reflection on that source
  • 1-3 important quotations
  • 2-4 keywords or tags
  • Content: Is it readable and informative? Does it teach us about the topic?
  • Research: Did you look for sources that don’t just agree with what you thought you would find? Were you open to being surprised and contradicted? Did you look further than the first four results on Google?
  • Genre: Remember that your four sources must include at least 2 different genres.
  • Presentation: Can someone else understand what you’ve written? Did you use formatting to help a reader make sense of your writing?
  • Citation: If you quote something in your introduction or conclusion that’s from any of your sources or one of our readings, did you cite it? Do your citations include enough information for someone else to find that resource?
• What belongs in the conclusion? Use the detailed instructions and also the grading criteria to make a list of what you need to do
  • approximately 300-400 words), in which you
  • summarize what you learned about your topic
  • explain how your thinking on your question deepened or changed
  • explain (with specifics!) why you think what you learned is important and who needs to hear about it
  • identify what genre you will use to convey your newly learned information to that audience. This will help you get started for Project 3!
  • Content: Is it readable and informative? Does it teach us about the topic?
  • Research: Did you look for sources that don’t just agree with what you thought you would find? Were you open to being surprised and contradicted? Did you look further than the first four results on Google?
  • Presentation: Can someone else understand what you’ve written? Did you use formatting to help a reader make sense of your writing?
  • Citation: If you quote something in your conclusion that’s from any of your sources or one of our readings, did you cite it? Do your citations include enough information for someone else to find that resource?