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Friday's Class (10 April 2019): Finishing your Annotated Biblioraphy.

5/7/2019

Finish your annotated bibliographies (they are due on Monday). Post to our class blog the answer to the following two questions (200-300 words):

What have you learned about your topic having done your research that you didn’t know before?
How has it changed your thesis? As you answer this question, please re-write your thesis the way it will probably appear in your paper.

Using the BSU Maxwell Library Database, you a responsible for locating five sources that will help you write your Big Idea Essay. Three of those sources need to be documented using the annotated bibliography worksheets that I passed out in class on Monday (John has extras for those of you who weren’t there).

YOUR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE DUE IN CLASS ON MONDAY, NO EXCEPTIONS. Please note the following parameters when searching for good sources:

You may use Wikipedia or an online encyclopedia as a source to help orient you to your topic, but you cannot count it as one of your five sources and it can not be one of your annotated bibliography entries.
You may use one website on your topic for general information purposes, and you can include it as one of your five sources in your bibliography, but it can not be one of your annotated bibliography entries.
You can use popular newspapers and magazines that you locate through a database and access online for one of your five sources. These sources should be what you use to complete your three annotated bibliography entries.
You have all of Friday’s class to work on this part of the project. You will have no other time in class to locate and annotate your sources. I expect you to be able to come to class Monday with your annotated bibliography complete and printed out ready to be used in class.

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Reading Response Post: How does the author make his argument in Demon In The Freezer?

5/7/2019

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WHAT TO POST TO THE CLASS BLOG ON WEDNESDAY
You should come to class on Wednesday having already read the essay “Demon in the Freezer.” You will have some time in your groups to talk about the essay. You must each post (not as a group, but individually) between 300 and 500 words by the end of class on the questions below.

1.Get into your small groups in class. Have the essay and any notes you have from reading the essay ready to work with.

2.In your small groups, locate the following sources of information in the essay:

Locate a place in the essay where the author is using historical information to help make his argument
Locate a place in the essay where the author is using scientific research to help make his argument
Locate a place in the essay where the author is using an expert to help make his argument

3.As a group, discuss what you find and try to answer this question for each of the three kinds of information: How does this particular kind of information (source) help this writer make his argument, and how would the argument be weaker if that information wasn’t there?

4. Now that you’ve completed the group work, write and post your 300 to 500 words on our class blog. Using the discussion you’ve had with your groupmates, write about the following:

What is the thesis of this essay?
Where and how does the writer use logos (information) to prove that thesis?
Where and how does the writer use ethos (credibility or expertise) to prove that thesis?
Where and how does the writer use pathos (emotion) to prove that thesis?

You have the full hour to complete this work. Folks who don’t post will not be allowed to make up this reading response. That will make it numerically impossible to earn a grade of “B” for the reading response assignment.

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Friday's Class (10 April 2019): Finishing your Annotated Biblioraphy.

Reading Response Post: How does the author make his argument in Demon In The Freezer?

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