Be thinking about the various tasks you need to remember in making your portfolio an excellent demonstration of the skills you've acquired this semester.
We will discuss the details in class and make a checklist together.
Research Paper Peer Responses
For this paper's peer comments and responses, please direct your attention to the writer's integration of outside sources. You should read the entire paper again, and you may make comments on content and organization, but the priority is to give each other feedback on the use of sources.
- Is each source set up and introduced so that it fits nicely with the writer's own ideas?
- Are the words of each source included in a larger sentence and consistent with the grammar of that sentence?
- Does the writer comment on the idea from the source after including it in order to transition back to his or her own discussion?
- Does the writer use FIVE different sources?
- Does the writer use correct MLA citing format?
Research Paper Workshop
For the next week, we will be doing in-class workshops to help you manage your progress on and get feedback about your Research Paper.
By now, you should already have sources you have located and even decided on some ideas you might incorporate into your paper, so the tasks that you can work on during class include the following:
By now, you should already have sources you have located and even decided on some ideas you might incorporate into your paper, so the tasks that you can work on during class include the following:
- Continue reading articles or book chapters that you might include in your paper and taking research notes.
- Compose the sentences you need in order to work an idea from a source into your paper.
- Make changes to your paper that open it up to different angles and questions you have not considered before.
- Properly format MLA citations for your sources. You need to place these in the Works Cited in alphabetical order.
- Create links to your sources for your Works Cited page. Not so tricky if you are using online magazines, but somewhat tricky if you are linking to a book or article inside Galileo.
Housekeeping Update
In your groups today, do the following:
Clean up your Google Drive:
Clean up your Google Drive:
- Make sure everyone can see the peer responses you wrote for them
- Create a folder called "LastName.FirstName.1101.Portfolio.F12"
- Put this folder next to, not inside, your essays folder
- Share the new folder with me (see Sharing Addresses)
- Move the peer responses done FOR you into your new portfolio folder
- Leave the peer responses that YOU did for others in your essays folder
- Whatever effort is required, exert it for as long as it takes!
- Every detail counts!
- Review assignment instructions and confirm that you are following them
- Your next one is due on Tuesday, so this is a chance to make sure you know what you're doing
- Look over the Technology Articles
- Each of you should choose your top three
- As a group, determine which three have the most votes
- Let me know your group's top three
Reading Notes
When we have assigned reading for class, you will take hand-written reading notes, covering at least a full page of notebook paper for each reading.
To receive credit for these notes you must follow some guidelines that will help you become a more engaged reader:
To receive credit for these notes you must follow some guidelines that will help you become a more engaged reader:
- No summaries or long lists of data or ideas from the reading
- Whenever you want to record an idea in your notes, you must quote the author (exact words, with quotation marks) and give a page number (or paragraph number for online articles)
- Quoting the author is not enough in itself; you must record your thoughts about your quotations
- If you write big or leave lots of white space, you'll need to go way beyond the one-page minimum
- Be sure to record ideas from various parts of the article so that I can tell you read the entire piece
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