Today’s Plan:
- Missing Assignments
- Bibliographic Pass
- Creating and Sharing a Google Doc
- Embedding a Link in a Google Doc
- Homework
Missing Assignments
I’ve scored all the Bibliographic assignments submitted to Canvas. Technically they were due at 10am, and I think I got to them around 11:00. I’ll almost always spend 30 minutes or so looking through an assignment before we meet for class.
But remember, if you got a zero in Canvas (or less than 4.3 points) then you can always (re)submit an assignment for credit. You have up to seven days to do so.
Reviewing the Bibliographic Pass
Most you got the gist of the assignment. A few people didn’t analyze a scholarly, peer-reviewed source, but rather a public one (say another article from Scientific American, Nature, or Science). I shaved off a few points if you did that–those articles are significantly easier to read than peer-reviewed stuff. A major purpose of this project (worknets) and this class (ENG 123) is to help you learn how to penetrate denser reading materials.
I did want to share a few exemplary approaches (Salena, Cassi, Peyton, Ben, Isaac).
Creating and Sharing a Google Doc
Some of you have already done this–if so, then great! But some of you haven’t. So let’s go ahead and create a Google Doc. You’ll title this google doc lastname workspace fa2022. We’ll submit that link to Canvas for some free points.
A link to our shared workspace.
Now that you’ve created a Google Doc, let’s talk about embedding a hyperlink.
Semantic Analysis
For Friday’s class, I’d like you to develop a semantic analysis for an academic article. If you did use an academic article for the bibliographic pass, then stick with that article. If you didn’t use an academic article for the bibliographic pass, then you will need to locate and read one to get credit for this assignment.
What are some resources for helping with the semantic pass?
- Identifying specialized vocabulary in the Abstract
- Identifying if the article has designated keywords
- Using a Word Cloud technology
What can we do with this image? First, we can simply write a list of the five biggest words (ignoring repetition). Then we can jot down a few notes about each–what do they mean to the author? What are their significance?
Second, we can look for any proper names other than the author(s)’s–I find two, Henschel and Blythe.
Third, we can try to identify words that stuck out to us during the first pass–what do we remember?
I’m going to ask you to take a few minutes and free write in your Google Doc.
At 2:00, I have a quick writing assignment for your new Google Doc.
Homework
The affinity pass. I’d like you to do some research on the authors or your article (if solo, that’s fine. Otherwise do two). What are we looking for?
- Find a list of the author’s previous publications. Are there other articles on this topic?
- Looking at the titles / abstracts of other publications, are there useful keywords to add to our workspace?
- Looking at their publications, with whom do they collaborate? What are the names of their co-authors (and if you look at their publications, what do they write about)?
You should put this affinity pass into your new Google Doc.
