Day 32 (Friday, 11 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Warm-up: (5 minutes)
• Right Side
• Left Side
2. Quoting/Paraphrasing/Summarizing and their in-text citations (5-10 minutes)
• Activity (15 minutes)
3. Annotated Bibliography Workshop (15 minutes)

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography due tonight by Midnight in the SafeAssign Dropbox
• Here's the grading rubric for you to check your paper against
• Please name the file: 
• "112I_Annotated Bibliography_NetID"

• For Wednesday, please write a 400-500 word reflective essay answering the question(s): 
• How have you become a better researcher through the Unit 2 and Unit 3 assignments? 
• What has surprised you most about doing research?  
• How will you use your sources to analyze the solutions in your final paper? 
• What do you think the biggest challenge was for you in Unit 2 and Unit 3?  
• What do you think will be the biggest challenge in writing the final paper? 

Day 31 (Wednesday, 9 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Fairytale Matrix (5 minutes)
2. Writing a paragraph (15 minutes) 
3. Peer Review (10 minutes)
• Straw Draw!
4. Annotated Bibliography Workshop (20 minutes) 

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography due Friday, 11 April 2014

Day 30 (Monday, 7 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Can you change your outline, topic, or critique of the solutions that you gave on your pre-research portfolio?  
2. Unit 4 - The final paper

Synthesizing Sources

1. PowerPoint
• Three fairy tales
2. Handout
3. Matrix

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography due FRIDAY 
• Don't forget Writer's Help :) 

Day 29 (Friday, 4 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Review and Mini-Lecture (10 minutes)
• PowerPoint
2. How to use the Summarizing Worksheet. (10 minutes) 
• Things to remember: 
• Copying and pasting from the abstract for your summary is plagiarism.  It is very easy to catch.  Please don't do it! 
3. Conciseness (25 minutes)
• What is conciseness? What is our class definition of conciseness? 
• Where does conciseness fit into the writing process? 
• How often do you do THIS step in writing?
• Writing Concisely Activity
• Part 2
4. Peer Review (likely extended into optional homework)

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography Due Friday, 11 April, by MIDNIGHT to SafeAssign on Compass2G.
• Recommended: 
• Recognizing wordiness 1
• Recognizing wordiness 2
• Revising for conciseness 1
• Revising for conciseness 2
• Combining choppy sentences 1

Day 28 (Wednesday, 2 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Summarize one of your sources (15 - 20 minutes)
• Use this article if you cannot access yours. 
2. Did your summary answer these questions? (5 minutes)
3. Group review (10 minutes) 
4. Summarizing Academic Sources Lecture (10 minutes)
• PowerPoint
5. How to summarize worksheet (15 - 20 minutes)

Homework:

• As you can see, there is more in this class than we can fit.  Step 5 on the "Schedule of Events" will almost surely be homework
• Recommended: 
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 1
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 2
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 3
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 4
• Recognizing Common Knowledge in APA papers

Day 27 (Monday, 31 March 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. What was the best part of your break?
2. Post-break Review
1. What have we been talking about in this class?
2. What big project are we slowly working on?
3. What step are we on in this project and what is it's purpose? 
4. What's the next due date? 
3. Annotated Analysis
• Individual Step (5-7 minutes)
• Partner Step (5-7 minutes)
• Whole group check (5-7 minutes)
4. Writing an Annotated Bibliography:
• Write an annotated bibliography for their 5 sources featuring:
• APA reference page citation
• Summary of the source (4-5 sentences)
• Explanation of relevancy of the source to paper topic (3-4 sentences)
• Explanation of reliability of the source (1-2 sentences)

Homework:

• 5 sources by Wednesday, 2 April

Day 26 (Friday, 21 March 2014)

Schedule of Events:

1. What do you think you should consider when deciding what sources to use in a research paper? 
2. Choosing Sources Chart Decision-Making Time (10 minutes)
3. Advanced Source Search (20 minutes) 
4. Adjusting Topics 

Homework: 

• 5 sources (minimum) due by the Wednesday after Spring Break (2 April 2014) 
• Have an awesome Spring Break! :)