Course Overview
• Master Syllabus
• Statement of Understanding and Committment
• word-crafter.net/CompII
• Writing and Research Processes (.doc)

Logging In to InSite
• Student QuickStart (.doc)

Activities
• Substantiating Opinions (Dear Abby)
• Baseline Essay (.doc)

Resources
• Preparing for the Final Exam
The final exam will be easy if you keep a log of the most important thing you learn each week. (For a sample, see J. Foley's log.)

Homework
• Reading and the Research Paper (.doc)
• Article needed for question 3
• Chapter 19

Activities

• Critique APA Model paper
  
• Questions for critique

Resources

• Reading a Professional Source
• Developing a Research Question (Writer's Complex; Empire State College)
• Reading and the Research Paper (.doc)

Homework
• Chapter 19

Evaluating Sources (librarian)

Two tools for tracking sources:

• Bedford Bibliographer
  (does APA citations and everything you need for Annotated Bibliography assignment; directions)
• Tracking Tool; example of completed tracking tool)

Resources
• One Big Mess (Research Room; Empire State College)
• Finding a Topic

Homework
• Begin research on possible topics

Summary/paraphrase activity ("For Argument's Sake" -- summarize ¶1-7 in 3rd person); critique AIDS Facts Web site)

APA documentation
• Cracking the APA Code
• APA resources
• Citation Machine

Annotated Bibliography

Homework
• Chapter 19
• Bring 2–3 possible thesis statements.

Ch. 21:  Organizing and Taking Notes

Methods for taking notes

Online resources:

• POWA: From Subject to Thesis
• Developing a Thesis (tests for a good thesis from St. Cloud U)
• Writing a Research Paper: Note-take Effectively (Purdue OWL)
• Research Paper Organizer

Homework
• Chapter 21

Introduce Ch 22 Organizing Your Thoughts and Support; take self-test

Introduction to Argument

• Developing a thesis
• Organizing an argument
• Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources (U Wisconsin handbook)
• Class materials

How to Organize a Long Paper

• Notecard Sorting activity
  • Directions (.doc)
  • Notecards to sort: suicide terrorism (.doc)
  • Notecards to sort: designer dogs
• Bridge Organizer (.doc) 25 pts.
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Research Paper Rubric (.doc)

Resources for Logical Fallacies assignment (50 pts.)

• The Nizkor Project: Fallacies
• Critical Thinking

Resources for Argument:

• Stating Your Proposition (POWA)
• Three Argumentative Appeals (POWA)
  

MLA: Chapter 25:  Works Cited

Share definitions of logical fallacies

Integrating Sources exercise

Did Webster's Dictionary have a mythical word?

1. Visit Snopes (an urban legends site)
2. Skim the entry for dord.
3. Summarize how dord got into the dictionary (briefly).
4. Include one quotation.
5. Check the Integrating Sources handout to see if you followed the rules for working quotations smoothly into your paper.

Plagiarism

1. Chapter 23: Using Borrowed Material in Your Paper; quiz
2. What are some strategies to avoid plagiarism?

For further practice:

• Interactive exercises: Indiana's plagiarism self-test and practice
• (alternative: Diana Hacker's site)

Hairston Quiz (key)

Selected Exercises from Practical Writer, Section 7

• Argument Revision Guide
• Argument Grading Criteria

Chapter 22: (abstract)

Informally present results of research
(abstract)

Review course content

Tools for continued progress

• Developing a Professional Writing Style

• Grammar help

• Writing: A Ticket to Work

Final Exam (letter about what you learned in this course)