-Assigned reading for 9/15/11: St. Martin's Handbook Part One, Section 3a-3c, "Exploring a Topic," "Narrowing a Topic," "Drafting a Working Thesis" (pp. 44-54); Part Three, Section 10h, "Moving from Hypothesis to Working Thesis" (p. 229); and Part Three, Section 15a, "Refiing Your Plans" (pp. 295 - 296). If you are still having trouble navigating St. Martin's, look at the light green bar at the top of the page. In the "Go to section" box, type in "3a". It will go straight to section 3a. You can also do this for 10h, 15a, and future reading assignments.
-If you did not find it already, MLA format is in chapter 16 of the St. Martin's ebook. Especially study 16b because it discusses in-text citations.
-Homework assignment - After you have read, complete exercise 3.2 (questions 1-5 in section 3c). Type directly into the boxes and when you are finished click "view notebook." Make sure all five answers are there, then click "email answers." Then type in your class section (1301.59 for 9:30am, 1301.62 for 11am) and my email (hannah.weems@ttu.edu). You must email this to me BEFORE our class on Thursday to get credit. It will count as your reading quiz grade for this week. P.S. There appears to be an error with St. Martin's and everyone's homework assignments are coming in as "RA" where your name should be. To fix this, put your name in the first box (#1 of exercise 3.2) right before your answer. If you have already sent it, resend it to me with your name so that you can get credit.
In class today we will...
-Go over new blog features
-Return the quiz from last class
-Go over the assigned reading: St. Martin's Handbook Part One, Section 3a-3c, "Exploring a Topic," "Narrowing a Topic," "Drafting a Working Thesis" (pp. 44-54); Part Three, Section 10h, "Moving from Hypothesis to Working Thesis" (p. 229); and Part Three, Section 15a, "Refiing Your Plans" (pp. 295 - 296).
-Have a class discussion about the purpose of a rhetorical analysis
-Analyze "What's a Girl to Read?" (P. 225-8 in First-Year Writing) as a class.
-Go over "go to section" box, index, note-taking, and highlighting in ebook
-Go over MLA guide in textbook
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