New MLA Sample Entries and Homework for Thursday

Here are some of the new MLA format samples, and here is your homework assignment:

Please post on this blog before Thursday Morning:

1) Your updated Works Cited for Draft 1.2 that includes all 3 sources

2) One correct In-Text Citation.

Lastly, remember to BRING ONE BODY PARAGRAPH TO CLASS NEXT THURSDAY for Peer Reviews.

 

MLA 2009 SAMPLE ENTRIES:
Book-
Mason, John.  The Tailor of Panama.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Print.

Scholarly Publication (Journal)-
Aldrich, Frederick A. and Margueritte L. Marks.  “Wyman Reed Green, American Biologiost.”  Bios 23.1 (1952): 26-35.  Print.

Online Periodical-
Lubell, Sam.  “Of the Sea and Air and Sky.”  New York Times.  New York Times, 26
Nov. 2008.  Web. 1 Dec. 2008.
Cohen, Elizabeth.  “Five Ways to Avoid Germs While Traveling.”  CNN.com. CNN, 27
Nov. 2008. Web. 28 Nov. 2008.

Online Database Scholarly Journal Article-
Berger, James D. and Helmut J. Schmidt.  “Regulation of Macronuclear DNA Content
in Paramecium Tetraurelia.”  The Journal of Cell Biology 76. 1 (1978): 116-126. JSTOR.  Web. 20 Nov. 2008.

Online-Only Publication-
Kessl, Fabian, and Nadia Kutsche.  “Rationalities, Practices, and Resistance in Post
Welfarism.”  Social Work & Society 6.1 (2008): n. pag. Web. 10 Oct. 2008.

 

See you guys Thursday!

Helpful Websites for Conclusions

Here are the two websites that we went over in class; they should be a help!  However, remember to include a specific strategy from the book in  your revised conclusion!

—   http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/conclusions.html

—   http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Conclusions.html

 

 

TO BRING TO CLASS

Hi All,

Similar to last week, please bring to class 2 copies of your conclusion from your Draft 1.1 to workshop in class this Thursday, 11/5.  Remember, this is part of your portfolio grade and it counts for your attendance for the day!

 

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT AND POWER POINT

Here is the POWER POINT from last Thursday’s class:

peer critique lesson

So, remember to do 2 critiques, and each of those should be 400-500 words, so about 800-1000 words total for this assignment!

 

For next class period, remember to bring in 2 copies of your introduction for your peer editing groups!

Draft 1.1 Questions and Power Point

I hope these are helpful to you!  They do a pretty good job of explicitly stating what Draft 1.1 is looking for and how to get started.

Draft11 explanation

Questions to Consider When Analyzing a Text for Draft 1

🙂 enjoy!

Draft 1.1 Starting-Off Questions

Questions to Consider When Analyzing a Text for Draft 1.1:
•    What is the tone of the article-casual/conversational, formal, objective, academic, angry/harsh, sentimental/personal, etc.?  What specific passages support this opinion and show the tone?
•    How do the authors organize their ideas and present them?  Does the author make a statement and methodically support it? Is there repetition?   Is there no structure at all?

o    Are there bulleted points?  Is the information straight-forward?  Does it move smoothly from point A to point B to point C?
o    Is the information jumbled?  Are there multiple points/main ideas to the text?
•    What type of terminology does the author use?
o    Are there any repeated words?
o    Are there emotionally loaded terms?
o    What is the effect of these terms?  Why would the author have included them?
o    Are there specialized terms? i.e. jargon→  What is the effect of these specialized terms?  Does it create a larger or a       smaller audience (does it exclude different types of people, or does it erase communication barriers)?
o    Does the author use the terminology of pop-culture?  (This, in some ways, is a specialized language.)
•    Does the author use figurative language? i.e. similes/metaphors/analogies/anecdotes

•    Does the author use logical fallacies? (Note that these are all STRUCTURAL issues, not content.)

o    Ad hominem—do they attack the person rather the issue?
o    Emotionally Loaded Terms
o    Faulty Cause/Effect
o    Either/Or Reasoning
o    Hasty Generalizations—did you catch the ones in Rodriguez?
o    False Analogy
o    Begging the Question
o    Non Sequitur
o    Oversimplification
•    How does the author address the audience?  Do they?
o    Does the author relate himself to the audience and group himself with them?  Or does the author even have a “persona” in the text?

BA6 Guidelines to Follow

BA6–Follow These Directions Carefully!

Purpose: Quotations pose several challenges for writers. The purpose of this assignment is for you to select quotations from sources you plan to use in your analysis essay, evaluate their usefulness, and discuss how and where you might use these in your upcoming draft.
Description: Take two of the articles from Chapter 10 that you plan to use in your paper and the text that you plan to analyze, use the most specific thesis statement that you wrote in BA 5 or write a new one, and then select 5 quotations from these articles and texts that you plan to use in your draft. Write a brief assessment of why each quotation would be useful to you in composing your draft. Your assessment of each quotation should include your answers to the following questions:
Where will this quotation fit in your organization?
Does it support or refute your thesis?  (basically, which part of your thesis does this quote respond to?  i.e.  if this quote is about word choice, tone, analogies, repeated metaphors, then what part of the thesis does this support?)
Will you use it as a quotation or paraphrase the selection, and why?
NOTE: You may find that in identifying and evaluating your quotations, you modify your original thesis statement.

Your BA 6 should look something like this. . .

Thesis: This is where you will write your working thesis.
Quotation 1:
“Blah blah blah blah blah” (Rodriguez 345).
Analysis: This is where you answer all three questions from above about this quotation.

Quotation 2:
“Blah blah blah blah” (Tan 389).
Analysis: This is where you answer again all three questions from above about this quotation.

Quotation 3:
“Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah” (Tan 392).
Analysis: This is where you answer again all three questions from above about this quotation.

Quotation 4:
“Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah” (Tan 393).
Analysis: This is where you answer again all three questions from above about this quotation.

Quotation 5:
“Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah” (Tan 394).
Analysis: This is where you answer again all three questions from above about this quotation.

Works Cited
You will include any articles you used quotations from and the article you used to write your thesis. You must put them in alphabetical order.

BA6 Assignment

Objective: To identify and evaluate quotations for use in your analysis essay.

Purpose: Quotations pose several challenges for writers. The purpose of this assignment is for you to select quotations from sources you plan to use in your analysis essay, evaluate their usefulness, and discuss how and where you might use these in your upcoming draft.

Description: Take two of the articles from Chapter 10 that you plan to use in your paper and the text(s) that you plan to analyze, use one of your thesis statements that you wrote in BA 5, and then select a certain number of quotations (between 5 – 8) from these articles and texts that you plan to use in your draft. Write a brief assessment of why each quotation would be useful to you in composing your draft. Your assessment of each quotation should include your answers to the following questions:

Where will this quotation fit in your organization? Does it support or refute your thesis? Will you use it as a quotation or paraphrase the selection, and why?

NOTE: You may find that in identifying and evaluating your quotations, you modify your original thesis statement.

Some Examples…

Good example (but not excellent):

The character of Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, in the fiction and film versions of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, may be compared and contrasted on the basis of the role, relationships, motives and goals, self-image, and tone.

Some bad ones:

→Such as between companies of different countries still learning each others language but wishing to work together. Information can quite literally be lost in translation. In international Engineering there are language barriers in communication between engineers of different backgrounds and disciplines and of those in countries that do not currently have engineers but that are trying to develop their nation.

→Bettelheim’s idea that people replace words to displace emotion and/or speak in an almost confidential or secret tongue is a common practice amongst doctors when they use medical jargon.

→Either way they want you to buy there magazine and read there article. Is whats inside the same though, do they all have the same information? So the language and images used in magazines have a role in the decision making of the customers when they want to know about the top story.

Draft 1.1 Further Information

First, let me note that I’m going to expand what you guys can write on a bit.  If you are concerned about your earlier idea and your ability to find a text that uses language in a similar way, you can write about a text in a field of interest.  However, if you are switching topics, make sure to tell me.  This way, if you aren’t sure if you can apply something, but you’re interested in sports, you can possibly find a sports article that somehow uses language.  For instance, consider the different relationships Tech has with A&M and UT.  Do different articles use different language for these teams?  Does it create a different tone?  What is the difference in word-usage?  Is an “us vs. them” atmosphere created through language?  Does this mean a community is created through language?  Just an idea…

Another idea:  Consider comic books.  Peter Parker/Spider man is an easy example.  How does his persona change when he switches roles?  How does his language change?  Your analysis would be drawn from a text, and so you can look at it.

Draft 1.1 is meant to analyze a specific text.  Therefore, the text you are evaluating should be the “leading actor” of this essay.  The two texts from Chapter 10 are only the “supporting actors” who should be used to show a parallel or contradictory thought.  (In this way, there is no need for any of the authors of Chapter 10 to be mentioned in the thesis.)  This text does not necessarily have to be academic; it can even be a comic book, or perhaps an article from Sports Illustrated and the New Yorker.  You can also go to the University Library and see what kind of journals they have within your field of interest (ask the reference desk people).  You can look in these journals for articles as well.

What Draft 1.1 should NOT DO is simply look at a text (say one that uses lots of medical jargon) and simply show that a different sort of language is created through the jargon by listing examples.  What should be looked is how the text uses the different type of language to create an effect.  Also, how does the writer of the article itself use language? Again, this is what “what does it do” factor.  “What perception of language is this” should be thought of.  Think of the “Nothing but Nets” article discussed in class; although Reilly didn’t specifically mention how he was using language, the language he used had an effect on the reader.  This effect was similar to Silko.  Those types of parallels are ones that can be drawn. \

So here’s another look at 1.1:

• THE “MAIN IDEA” OF DRAFT 1.1
➢       To specifically analyze a text
➢       Note how the author has used the text—and the language used within a text—to relay a perception of language.
➢       The blog exercise got you guys thinking of a perception of language within your field of study/interest—now the goal is to look for something similar within a text related to your field of study/interest
•       To analyze this text to see how the author uses language to relay a perception or principle of language.
•       This text does not necessarily have to be an article; it can be a play, an essay, articles, magazines, online articles….
•       So, this draft is an expansion of all of the BA’s worked on this year:
•  You will have to summarize the text and find out the main idea—although a summary like BA2 will not be in this paper.
•  You will have to evaluate the text→ and this is basically the main exercise of this paper.  To “evaluate” the text to see how the author relays a conception about language.
•  When introducing texts, direct quotes, and paragraphs of important information, you will have to paraphrase information.