Today’s Plan:
- MLA / APA Expectations
- Writing Center
- Rubric Norming / Peer Review
- Homework
MLA and APA Expectations
On Wednesday I shared a link to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab–the OWL. It has all the formatting information you need for MLA and APA. Here is a link to the list of formatting concerns–make sure you can check off all of those concerns before you turn in the paper.
I know many of you will be tempted to use MLA because that’s what you were taught in high school. That’s fine–the choice is yours for this paper. BUT let me encourage you to base your major on your intended path of study. I don’t think anyone expects you to walk into a University knowing APA or Chicago Style. However, they expect you to learn it by the time you finish ENG 123 next semester. You might as well go ahead and get started on that now.
Things I Read about this Morning
How this class can work:
- A Denver Post article on proposed cuts to social security. Compare to an article at the Wall Street Journal from February. Compare to an article in the Washington Post (also from February).
- Baseball fans: A Radical Pitch to Save Baseball. A response to that article. A Podcast that will surely talk about it tomorrow.
- Feminists are pretty upset about the French Open and Serena Williams. NPR. Nike on medical reasons (but should they matter?) Is there a double standard?
- Education experts are dealing with plans to arm classroom teachers with guns and an inaccurate report released by Devos and the Dept. of Ed
- Movies folks might want to look into the proposed “Pop Culture” category, which seems to be (WARNING: MY OPINION) a structurally-racist strategy to not have to award Black Panther best picture
Pro-Tip: if you hit a paywall for an article, log into the library, search for the publication, and find the article.
Norming / Peer Review
What we are here for. What we are not. Learning to read rhetorically: What does a period do?
Homework
Since we are not meeting until next Wednesday (thanks to Labor Day holiday), I’ll move the due date for the proposals to Monday morning at 11:59am. Google Docs ONLY.
