August 30 - Thursday

Class Work

1. How is the work going? Questions? Concerns?
2. Peer Editing Activity and Introduction to the Writing Rubric. (handout - the document is also available on BlackBoard.)
3. Learn to use EasyBib for your Works Cited page. You must register at the site, but it is FREE! Just remember who you are and the e-mail you used. The site will keep your sources safe! It will create perfectly formatted MLA Works Cited pages. What could be better?
www.easybib.com
4. Learn to give credit to your sources within the text.

• Sample essay: www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/hacker-Daly-MLA.pdf  
• Write Now: pp.  394-399
• Write Now: pp. 384-385
• Write Now: pp. 377-379
• Pay special attention to Write Now: p. 381 - Strategies for summarizing, paraphrasing, and using quotations (Also pp. 375-376)
• View video 45 in the Write Now media resources Summarizing and Paraphrasing

5. Avoid run-on sentences, comma splices, and fragments.

• FANBOYS
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ (PowerPoint)
• Complete practices 73 and 75 http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

6. You should now be ready to write your final draft of the Body Art essay.

• Take a stand.
• Begin with an amazing introduction.
• End with a memorable conclusion
• Present a clear point of view.
• Support with at least three in-text citations.
• Include your personal experience story, or at least part of it.
• Include the Works Cited page
• Use MLA formatting.
• Submit in MCL - Activity #11

Homework
Activity #8 - Post your answer in MCL. This will be due next Tuesday....This is a leftover assignment from Tuesday.Using EasyBib or other citation machine, create a Works Cited page for your Body Art paper. Include the three articles you located for homework over the weekend. Also include an interview with one of the others in class. You may include additional sources if you have them.
www.easybib.com

The document you post in MCL will be a Word document. Formatting counts. If you follow all the steps in EasyBib, the Word documents will be created for you.

 (#10 was part of Tuesday's homework.)

Activity #11 Post in MCL.
write your final draft of the Body Art essay.

• Take a stand.
• Begin with an amazing introduction.
• End with a memorable conclusion.
• Present a clear point of view.
• Support with at least three in-text citations.
• Include your personal experience story, or at least part of it.
• Include the Works Cited page
• Use MLA formatting.
• Submit in MCL - Activity #11

Activity #12 - Post in MCL
Learn to write comparison/contrast essays by reading Chapter 23 in Write Now. Then, complete exercise #2 on p. 459. Instead of highlighting instances where you found comparison and contrast strategies, list them in the space in MCL. Following your list, include the two to three sentence assessment as described in the assignment.