Day Four Class Notes

Housekeeping

Organize groups and explain future group process (30 min)
Upload Wikipedia Debate drafts to course wiki.
Discuss process and issues with code ("cleaning" documents by using Notepad (.txt); copy-and-paste the .txt. version into wiki) and wiki.

Peer Response

Read Peer Response Overview

Discuss process and Wikipedia Debate peer response guidelines
--using color (highlighting and font) for editing; the comments function

In-class norming and practice peer response (groups and individual)

MLA

(Using drafts)

signal phrases
punctuation
in-text citation

• In-text Citations: The Basics (Purdue University)
• Citing sources in the text (Cornell University)
• Documenting Sources: MLA In-Text Citations (dianahacker.com)

Works Cited

Introduction to summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting.

For suggestions about the art of summarizing check out the following resources:

• How to Summarize (University of Pittsburgh)
• Learn to Summarize (University of Houston- Victoria)
• Summary: using it wisely (University of North Carolina)

Check out these resources for more information on paraphrasing:

• Paraphrasing (Duke University)
• Paraphrase and Summary (University of Toronto)
• Successful vs. unsuccessful paraphrases (UW-Madison)
• Paraphrase: Write it in your own words (Purdue University)
• Paraphrase or Quotation? (Monash University)

[photo: audience by Herr Josh]