The reading for Thursday is all about making evaluative claims. This is very important for your classical argument paper and a valuable skill to develop.
The reading for Tuesday is about the Classical Argument. You should REALLY pay attention and make sure you understand what this is saying so that you can write a good classical argument paper. As always, comment here as you like.
The reading for this Thursday is all about incorporating sources into your research papers. In class, we’ll cover Summary, Paraphrase, and Quote; APA style; and Using Sources in your paper. On Thursday, I’ll bring in the schedule for the rest of the semester for reading and due dates. Also, I have a new version of [...]
The reading for Tuesday is about your next paper: Proposal/Annotated Bibliography. As always, comments and questions and information should be posted here.
The reading for Tuesday is to review AB 121-140 (about Strong Responses) and to read AB 346-368 about Analysis and Synthesis.
The reading that is due Thursday is a review of the summary/strong response paper chapter from 1010 and information about revising papers and peer reviews.
The reading for Tuesday is all about grammar. I don’t expect you to read ALL of it, just the parts that you feel you need to work on or learn more about. However, you should read the first several pages in AB and DK very carefully in case there is a quiz (hint!). Also, comment [...]
The reading for Thursday is to review chapters 3 and 4 in AB. You are additionally supposed to finish reading chapter 9, about Informative and Surprising writing – with several pages of examples. You also have a few pages in DK to read (34-37, 146-147) about research questions. Comments or questions, as always, welcomed here.
The reading for the 8th is a review of chapters 1 and 2 from 1010 and the rest of Chapter 9, about the Informative and Surprising Paper. Comments or questions welcome.
This post is for commenting on the reading for Thursday about finding sources, narrowing your topic, and evaluating your sources. Also, for Thursday, you need the Research Study Guide completely filled out. To get the guide, do the following: Go to the library home page. Click on the tutorials link in the middle, left side [...]