Final Twitter Assignment

1. What was your favorite text we read in class and why?

2. What do you hope to remember about this class once you've graduated?

Extra Credit Tweet

1. How was ENG 102 helped you prepare for writing future papers in college?

Class cancelled tomorrow (5.27)

Class: My son has a fever and needs to stay home tomorrow from daycare. I thus can't make class. On the bright side, this gives you some extra time to finish the novel and work on your essay.

I'm aware I didn't post a Twitter assignment last week. That was intentional. Look for a new Twitter assignment tomorrow. 

Citations and Works Cited Page

For in-text citation, click here:

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BUT what does it look like in a bibliography or works cited page?

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BUT what about citing KINDLE, or YOUTUBE?

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OR TRY:

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Peer Review Guidelines: Essay 3

Peer Review Guidelines

1. Give written feedback that offers specific praise and criticism.

2. Put your name on this feedback and give it to the writer.

3. Keep your written feedback and staple it to your final draft.

Writing Feedback Directions (from the text Tutoring Writing)

1. Open with a general statement about the essay's relationship to the assignment. Be clear about which parts fulfill the assignment and which parts need improvement. When you make a specific, concrete suggestion for improvement, try couching it in a qualifier: "You might try..." or "Why don't you add..." or "Another way of writing the lead might be..."

2. Present comments so the writer knows which problems with text are most important and which are of lesser importance.

3. Use comments primarily to call attention to strengths and weaknesses in the piece, and be clear about the precise points where they occur.

4. Write comments that are text-specific, and uniquely aimed at the blog and the writer. Let the writer know what specific lines, ideas, and stylistic touches you find pleasing.

Attach written suggestions from your peers to your final drafts for full peer review credit.

Reflection on your writing process for essay assignment three. Answer the following questions in a brief letter to the professor. 1. Overall, are you confident that your essay meets the expectations of the assignment? Why or why not? 2. What is the most difficult part of the assignment for you? How are you overcoming it? 3. What is your strategy for doing excellent work for this assignment? 4.What were the two most valuable suggestions made about your paper in the peer review?

Twitter Assignment #9

1. What are the words you'd use to describe Katniss?

2. What is the theme you plan to follow as you read the text this weekend (based on the ones we discussed in class)?

EXTRA CREDIT TWEET

1. What would Ruth say to Katniss?

RESEARCH STRATEGY for PAPER

ENG 102 Research Strategy Guide: The Third Paper (A Raisin in the Sun)

What Your Assignment Needs: 20% of your assignment’s grade will come from your integration of academic, peer-reviewed research into your essay.

What are academic sources? Academic, peer-reviewed sources are those that come from scholarly journals, books, or sources (these are, by definition, non-profit, and contain bibliographies and references to other scholarship).

How do I cite my work? You will use MLA style (click here).

Steps for finding and incorporating research

1.     Go to academic search engines and enter in keywords related to the assignment. This will probably be A Raisin in the Sun, but, given the findings, may also include other keywords from your topic, such as race, gender, and class.

2.     When you find an academic source, first skim it to see how relevant it is. You’ll want to read the introduction, the first sentence of each paragraph, and the conclusion to get a full sense of its relevance, but you may know rather quickly if it’s useful or not.

3.     When you find a useful source, begin to take notes. In general, and for the essay, you will need to know the major arguments, the main ways that source uses evidence, and several potential direct quotations potentially useful to incorporate into your essay.

4.     You will ultimately identify a direct quotation that contains an idea that supports or challenges or deepens one of the main claims you’re making in the paper.

Incorporating research material into your essay

1.     After your thesis statement in your introduction, you will alter the reader to your sources and how you use them in your essay.

2.     One method of incorporating the source is to create individual paragraphs that directly deal with your scholarship. You may also place the scholarship into one larger paragraph. If you do this, you will need a topic sentence claim that states the relationship between this research and the claim or claims you’re making in the paper. Remember, the research may support or challenge the claims you’re making. If it’s a challenge, you will need to defend your claims against the challenge of the research (this is called ‘counter-argumentation.’)

3.     Another method of incorporating research is to integrate the research ideas directly into the paragraphs supporting your thesis, which already contain the textual evidence you’re using to back up your thesis claims.

4.     No matter how or where you incorporate research, you will need to introduce the source to your reader by summarizing the main arguments of the piece, detailing how the source uses evidence, directly quoting from the source, and paraphrase and explain the significance of the quote.

Suggested Research Search Engines

You will find most of what you need to know on the LaGuardia Library Homepage.

Suggested Sources: Getting started

Drama for students. Volume 29 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton.

Title: Readings on A raisin in the sun / Lawrence Kappel, book editor.

Title: Understanding A raisin in the sun : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Lynn Domina.

Title: Understanding blackness through performance [electronic resource] ; contemporary arts and the representation of identity / Edited by Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine, Jean-Paul Rocchi.

Title: Staging the slums, slumming the stage [electronic resource] ; class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / J. Chris Westgate.

Author: Healey, Joseph F., 1945- author.

Title: Race, ethnicity, gender, & class : the sociology of group conflict and change / Joseph F. Healey, Christopher Newport University, Eileen O'Brien, Saint Leo University.

Title: Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics / bell hooks.

Title: Race, class, and gender in the United States : an integrated study / [edited by] Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow, The Murphy Institute, CUNY, with Kelly S. Mayhew, San Diego City College.

Author: Hooks, Bell.

Title: We real cool : Black men and masculinity / Bell Hooks.

Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch [electronic resource] : essays on race and sexuality / Dwight A. McBride.

Take A Raisin in the Sun Books to Class Monday

We'll finish with it before we turn to The Hunger Games.