Special for you today! I have put a couple examples (good, bad, and ugly) on Blackboard. Just remember to focus on analyzing the rhetoric or how the author says something. Don’t focus on what the author says (expect to do a summary). Make sure to give specific examples to back up what you say. Some [...]

We have reading in AB and DK due for class. This gets us caught up on the reading (except for the Graphics and Data lesson). You also need to have your peer reviews done before class. Based on what I’m seeing in the Analysis and Synthesis papers, I am also asking everyone to read through [...]

I apologize for the late notice on this – my internet went down over the weekend. Of course, this is all in the syllabus, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise. On Tuesday, we are going to be talking about Reviews of Literature and Categorizing. These are both important for the Proposal part of the [...]

Sorry about the delay in getting this up – it was a very busy weekend for Cub Scout stuff. Your assignment for Tuesday was to read over the Teacher Drafts of the example Analysis and Synthesis papers (they are on Blackboard) You are supposed to email me and attach a document with a paragraph or [...]

Since I had to go through this so fast in class, here are the requirements for submitting your Teacher Draft of the Analysis and Synthesis paper. You can submit your peer draft either electronically or printed. If you are submitting the peer draft electronically, do the following: Open the version you are submitting for your [...]

The reading for Tuesday is to review AB 121-140 (about Strong Responses) and to read AB 346-368 about Analysis and Synthesis.

Some of you may be wondering about the Article Summary assignment that is also due on Monday. I failed to mention anything about it in class, but here is the information. You are to take one of your sources and summarize it in 150 words or less. Give the name of the text and the [...]

This paper is sometimes called the Rhetorical Analysis paper. You are to use 2 texts from your research (you can use the one you already used for the Informative and Surprising essay), and analyze their rhetoric and ideas. Then, analyze them both together by comparing and contrasting, and finally, synthesize the information into your own, [...]