Week 8 Overview

Time always accelerates towards the end of the quarter, and pressure from all courses you're taking is rising.  Keep your balance as best you can, because some significant projects will be due in this time.  Let me highlight the good news, though: the big projects you'll be turning in are cumulative, building on what's come before.

We'll be adding another 750 words onto our Rough Draft, to start with.  Again, this is just content--doesn't have to be particularly well-crafted or even make sense to anyone except yourself yet.

Library books.By the end of the week, you'll be submitting the final draft of the Annotated Bibliography.  The "annotation" paragraphs that follow each source's citations are like mini versions of the Source Evaluation essay, with a little summary thrown in.  You should be well-versed in these skills by now, and can quickly assess the relative value of each source on this list.  Remember, they don't all have to be keepers.  This list is to value the whole research process, and we expect you to find a lot of junk along with the good stuff.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

  1. Locate appropriate images that advance your research thesis
  2. Identify the value of infographics in conveying information quickly
  3. Cite a variety of sources in polished MLA format
  4. Annotate your citations with brief paragraphs defining the relative value of a source to your own research goals

 

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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