Day 9
Tues. Nov. 26
Speakers: Share ideas from Essay 2
Austin summarizes Drive Chapter 3
Citations and references (part 1)
Homework
➤ Read your partner’s paper and meet them to talk about it
Read your partner’s paper and think up three honest questions to ask them. Find a time to talk with your partner face to face, in person — no WeChat conversations! — and ask them your questions. Hopefully this will result in an interesting conversation that gives you new ideas or causes you to rethink your ideas in some way.
Based on this conversation, try to add at least one new paragraph to your paper. Also, you’re welcome to rewrite your paper any way you wish.
Note: the final due date for this paper will be 12 noon this Friday (leave the paper in my blue box).
➤ Speakers
Wenwen, Xiong Xin
Tell us about the conversation you had with your partner. What did you talk about? What were the most interesting questions? Did you make any substantial changes to your paper? If so, what?
➤ Read TSIS Chapter 6
Graff and Birkenstein’s main point in this chapter is that raising and answering potential objections is a good way to make your essays better. As you read, ask yourself: Why do Graff and Birkenstein believe this? And what is their advice for how to do this effectively?
➤ Observe citations and references
Look at the citations and references in the MLA sample paper in Keys for Writers, and try to notice patterns about them. Be ready to share what you noticed next class. Bring Keys for Writers to class, too.
Citations
What pieces of information do the citations generally include?
When do they include the author’s name, and when don’t they include the author’s name?
References
How is the formatting of the references different from the formatting of paragraphs in an essay? (How do they look?)
What comes first in every reference?
What determines the order of the references? (How are they organized?)
