Week 6 Overview

The source evaluation is Priority 1 this week; the final draft will be due Monday night.  Once that's done, we'll take what we did in extended form for that essay, and shrink it down to apply to many more sources. 

The Annotated Bibliography will be our next big step towards completing the Research Essay Project, and it will ask you to find, evaluate, and cite a number of sources.  You can incorporate the sources you've found so far and turned in for earlier assignments, so you won't be starting from scratch.

The Annotated Bibliography won't be due until Week 8, but it's a good idea to get started on it early, as it's a big project.

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The other new element this week will be the "Discovery Draft" as a way to get the ball rolling on the research essay text.  This is a very free-wheeling assignment.  All I ask is that you dedicate one solid hour this week to work on your research project, in the form of this discovery draft.  Make sure to build time into your schedule to do this. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this week, you should be able to:

  1. Analyze potential audiences for a project and select an appropriate one
  2. Use a set of ellipses to edit quotations
  3. Provide an in-depth evaluation of a potential source for your research project

 

FOR FURTHER PRACTICE

These resources are not (usually) mandatory, but will often prove valuable in helping you complete other assignments within the unit.   Use them at your discretion.

 

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