Class 9/22/11

Before class you need to...

-Read Part 2, Section 8, "Analyzing Arguments" (pp. 163 - 185) and Part 3, Section 13, "Integrating Sources into Your Writing" (pp. 276 - 286) in your St. Martin's Handbook. Especially study the green boxes: "Quick Help: Guidelines for Analyzing an Argument" in 8a (and click on the links in blue of questions you do not know the answers to), "Quick Help: Deciding to quote, paraphrase, or summarize" in 13b, and "Quick Help: Signal Verbs" also in 13b.

-Read pages 108-114 in First-Year Writing

-Review Chapter 9 (pages 201-230) in First-Year Writing

-Come to class prepared to take a quiz on these readings


In class today we will...

-In your workgroups answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:
1. When should you use summary?
2. When should you use paraphrase?
3. When should you use a direct quotation?
4. List at least three ways (phrases) to introduce a direct quotation.
5. List at least five signal verbs to introduce a quotation.

-Class discussion over assigned reading and BA 5

-With your work groups do a practice BA 5 using "What's a Girl to Read?" on pages 225-8 in First-Year Writing

-Reading quiz over rhetorical analysis