Monday, March 07, 2005
3/7
Syllabus:
- 3/7 Finished Draft of Essay I. Workshop: Format/Design and proofing. In Class: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives Presentations. Overview of Wednesday.
Bookkeeping:
- Guest Speakers are unable to attend this week. Class will be held. See below for expectations/requirements.
- Please review web site after class to make sure that I have a link to your blog so that you will receive credit for your work. Also, make sure that you are creating a new post for each section (e.g., Contemporary Cultural or Religious); you will not receive credit for a blog posted as a comment (each entry is difficult to find).
In Class:
Grammar Workshop
- First: Grammar check. Look at the notation marks noted in your proposal. If you haven’t yet, look up these terms in SMH to find out what they are and how to correct them.
- What's the most common error in class? Read off descriptions.
Essay I Workshop
- Count off to find workshop partner.
- Email file as attachment
- Check email ;-) and open file.
- Follow workshop guidelines at cundrie.com; see special note for laptop lab people. You will save the document as a pdf so that the person has a copy. Make sure you know the file location to which you saved the pdf.
- Email reviewed draft in pdf format with revisions showing to the original writer, a copy to you, and one to me (Beaudin A 1 @ southernct. edu). In case you didn’t know, you can do this by sending one email to multiple recipients.
6:15 Section
- MLA Review. Parenthetical citation and list of works citedo what needs to be cited and why
- direct quotes
- summaries
- paraphrases
- any data that you needed to research (either by asking someone, looking up online, referring to a book—any type of research!)
- How to cite
- MLA is a type of reference system. Term used in text (e.g., Smith 101) must be primary index term in WC (e.g., Smith, Thomas H. A History of Queer Literature. New York: Triangle, 2005.)
- All quotes must be introduced, even if cited parenthetically.
- • WHAT NOT TO DO: “The reading and writing you do in college are part of what we broadly think of as research” (Lunsford 39).
- • DO THIS: As Andrea Lunsford notes in the St. Martin’s Handbook, “The reading and writing you do in college are part of what we broadly think of as research” (39).
- • Note that when the source is made clear, the parenthetical citation need only to indicate where in the text the particular quote, paraphrase, or section summary is to be found. The reader knows that he or she can look in your works cited and find an entry that begins “Lunsford, Andrea A.” that will name a text with full bibliographic information so that the reader can, if he or she wishes, turn to page 39 of that book and find that quote and the context in which it was used.
- If a source was located via JSTOR, the OED, or any of the Buley databases, it must be cited according to SMH 20c#40 (Work from an online subscription service). Look at the second example for more information.
- The greatest difficulty with citation is—for most—figuring out the type of source. SMH 20
Looking Ahead to 3/9
6:15
- Essay I due.
- We will discuss Contemporary Cultural Perspectives readings in depth in class.
7:35
- bring in finished draft of essay one on disk/ thumb drive/ emailed to self as MS Word attachment for in class review and workshop.
- We will continue discussion of Contemporary Cultural Perspectives.
// posted by Andrea Beaudin @ 3/07/2005 05:39:00 PM 
