Bring your review draft with you to class on Tuesday - we will be doing peer review in class in order to catch up. Your final draft will be due on Thursday.
/jm
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
What you should have done and posted for Thursday 11/12
Template B from the Review Assignment (it's posted on an earlier post on this blog). This should be done by start of class on Thursday as we will go over them in class.
Then we will outline the review in class, so start thinking about how you want to structure your review. Find an example of a review that is similar to yours (keep in mind the plagiarism workshop!) and note how they bring up their criteria. How do they arrange the review? What are some things you like about this review? What do you want to do differently in your own review? You shouldn't borrow criteria from this review - criteria should be more personal. What YOU like in a restaurant, for example, is not what another author might like. But good restaurants do share some common themes - good service, appropriate ambiance (this might be different for a pizza place and a french restaurant!). These (service, ambiance) are CATEGORIES of criteria. So your criteria should be more detailed.
I will see you in class on Thursday.
/jm
Then we will outline the review in class, so start thinking about how you want to structure your review. Find an example of a review that is similar to yours (keep in mind the plagiarism workshop!) and note how they bring up their criteria. How do they arrange the review? What are some things you like about this review? What do you want to do differently in your own review? You shouldn't borrow criteria from this review - criteria should be more personal. What YOU like in a restaurant, for example, is not what another author might like. But good restaurants do share some common themes - good service, appropriate ambiance (this might be different for a pizza place and a french restaurant!). These (service, ambiance) are CATEGORIES of criteria. So your criteria should be more detailed.
I will see you in class on Thursday.
/jm
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Plagiarism Workshop
In your groups, consider the following scenarios. Rate these scenarios on a scale of 0-5, where 0=not plagiarism at all, and 5=probably IS plagiarism. You should also discuss and answer the question -why is this plagiarism (or why is it not)? Also discuss the reasoning behind your decision - is this situation fair? Is it justifiable? Are there perhaps some instances where the University atmosphere CONTRIBUTES to plagiarism?
1. You and a roommate have ENC 1102 papers due at around the same time. In order to save time and have more fun doing research, you choose similar topics and research together. You will certainly write your own papers, but you use the same articles and books.
2. You have a paper due in Technical Writing that is supposed to be a proposal. You are also taking a speech class where you have to write a proposal. You decide to write the paper and the speech on the same topic to save time since you are taking 6 classes.
3. You are taking your first online class, and the teacher's assignments are very vague. For this assignment, you really aren't sure what he wants, but you do know that you are supposed to post something on the discussion board and answer some questions from the module. You look at the discussion board and see that some other students have already posted their assignment, so you look at their postings to get an idea of what they answered in response to the question and feel much better. Now you know what you have to do!
4. Same scenario as number 3 above, but this time you look at their postings, and use one of the assignments as a template. You change their answers and post your response, but then you get an e-mail from the teacher accusing you of plagiarizing the assignment. How could she do this? Your answers weren't the same as the other student's!
For the next part of this assignment, I want you to look up on the UCF Office of Student Conduct website (http://www.osc.sdes.ucf.edu/) what the penalties for plagiarism at UCF can be. Discuss them in your group - do you think that they are fair? Too harsh? Not harsh enough?
Look up (on OSC's website) the Golden Rule on Plagiarism.
1. You and a roommate have ENC 1102 papers due at around the same time. In order to save time and have more fun doing research, you choose similar topics and research together. You will certainly write your own papers, but you use the same articles and books.
2. You have a paper due in Technical Writing that is supposed to be a proposal. You are also taking a speech class where you have to write a proposal. You decide to write the paper and the speech on the same topic to save time since you are taking 6 classes.
3. You are taking your first online class, and the teacher's assignments are very vague. For this assignment, you really aren't sure what he wants, but you do know that you are supposed to post something on the discussion board and answer some questions from the module. You look at the discussion board and see that some other students have already posted their assignment, so you look at their postings to get an idea of what they answered in response to the question and feel much better. Now you know what you have to do!
4. Same scenario as number 3 above, but this time you look at their postings, and use one of the assignments as a template. You change their answers and post your response, but then you get an e-mail from the teacher accusing you of plagiarizing the assignment. How could she do this? Your answers weren't the same as the other student's!
For the next part of this assignment, I want you to look up on the UCF Office of Student Conduct website (http://www.osc.sdes.ucf.edu/) what the penalties for plagiarism at UCF can be. Discuss them in your group - do you think that they are fair? Too harsh? Not harsh enough?
Look up (on OSC's website) the Golden Rule on Plagiarism.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
For Thursday
Post the audience analysis (Template A) by midnight Thursday. Sometimes it helps me to think of the audience as a comparative audience. For a magazine, for example, how would the readers of Vogue and Entertainment Weekly (or Car and Driver) differ? How would older readers view drug ads (the kind that have the back page side effects listed)? How do younger viewers see these ads?
As you think of who they are, think also of who they're not. Would readers of Vogue, for example, be likely to be younger or older women (or men?). Would they be women who are rich (not necessarily - I read Vogue) or who appreciate the art that is fashion?
As you think of who they are, think also of who they're not. Would readers of Vogue, for example, be likely to be younger or older women (or men?). Would they be women who are rich (not necessarily - I read Vogue) or who appreciate the art that is fashion?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Your review assignment
Please note that your review assignment is due on 11/17, but the draft is due 11/12. We will be having conferences that day and for the next three days online in groups. You will be responsible for signing in to a chat room and we will conference that way. Please come prepared to these chats with at least three questions about your draft.
Review Assignment
Please bring your books with you to class during this assignment and during the argument assignment as well. I didn't like the treatment of the Commentary in the books that much (I thought I could do better :)) but I like the way that the author's handle the review material.For Thursday, look me up on Rate my Professor, and read the chapter in ACW on Reviews.
Review Assignment
Please bring your books with you to class during this assignment and during the argument assignment as well. I didn't like the treatment of the Commentary in the books that much (I thought I could do better :)) but I like the way that the author's handle the review material.For Thursday, look me up on Rate my Professor, and read the chapter in ACW on Reviews.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Office Hours (NOT class!)
We will be having class as usual today, but I wanted to let you know that I have to cancel my office hours today because I am substituting for another teaching during that time. I'll be back to regularly scheduled hours on Tuesday from 10:30-11:30.
J Moody
J Moody
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Citing Sources
For this paper, we will be doing informal citations. For the argument paper, I will be VERY concerned with your research accuracy and your citation format, but for this paper I'm more concerned with the accuracy of your research than I am the format of your citations.
The general rule is that if most people don't know this information (general knowledge), you have to cite where you found it. So anything that you learned for this commentary, like information on skateboarding at UCF, how many students go here, or results from your interview with fellow students, has to be cited.
For the interview, use the following information:
Lastname, Firstname. "Personal Interview on xxxx (date)." When you refer to the person's interview in your paragraph, for instance to say that your partner thought that skateboarding was equally dangerous, you could say something like "According to Shelly Larson, who was run over by a skateboarder as she headed to class, skateboarding should be totally outlawed on campus." And then you cite the source on a separate works cited page.
For newspaper or magazine information, in the commentary itself, reference it like this: "In a recent Newsweek article, skateboarding was the number one cause of fatalities on campus." and in your works cited page, list the article like this:
Author's last name, Author's First Initial (if the author's name is listed). "Title of the Article." Newsweek. May 7, 2009. (23-29 (page numbers)).
For a website, in the commentary, say something like "On cancer.gov, the leading cause of lung cancer is listed as smoking." and in your works cited page, you would post a link to the actual page where you found the information, as well as the date you accessed the page.
If you have any questions about citing a source, as well as whether you need to cite a source, please ask in class on Thursday, as most of the class needs to know as well.
In the Lunsford book use the MLA format section for information on how to set up the works cited page (you can also find information on how to set up all of the citations here as well).
The general rule is that if most people don't know this information (general knowledge), you have to cite where you found it. So anything that you learned for this commentary, like information on skateboarding at UCF, how many students go here, or results from your interview with fellow students, has to be cited.
For the interview, use the following information:
Lastname, Firstname. "Personal Interview on xxxx (date)." When you refer to the person's interview in your paragraph, for instance to say that your partner thought that skateboarding was equally dangerous, you could say something like "According to Shelly Larson, who was run over by a skateboarder as she headed to class, skateboarding should be totally outlawed on campus." And then you cite the source on a separate works cited page.
For newspaper or magazine information, in the commentary itself, reference it like this: "In a recent Newsweek article, skateboarding was the number one cause of fatalities on campus." and in your works cited page, list the article like this:
Author's last name, Author's First Initial (if the author's name is listed). "Title of the Article." Newsweek. May 7, 2009. (23-29 (page numbers)).
For a website, in the commentary, say something like "On cancer.gov, the leading cause of lung cancer is listed as smoking." and in your works cited page, you would post a link to the actual page where you found the information, as well as the date you accessed the page.
If you have any questions about citing a source, as well as whether you need to cite a source, please ask in class on Thursday, as most of the class needs to know as well.
In the Lunsford book use the MLA format section for information on how to set up the works cited page (you can also find information on how to set up all of the citations here as well).
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