Evaluating Sources

Find one online source on a topic of your interest and evaluate it using CRAAP test. Discuss whether you would use the source for a research paper on that topic. 

Finding Sources

What are four/five different ways you use to find sources for a research paper? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of them? Post your answers here as a comment. 

Rhetoric of Academic/Nonacademic Writing

Post the link to the sample writing your group is analyzing and include a brief analysis. You will present that to the whole class. 

Discussion on Chapter from "Insider's Guide"

Group work

1.     What are 3-5 most important things that you learned from the chapter?

2.     What are some specific tools the writers offer to analyze disciplinary writings?

3.     Analyze the press release and the excerpt from an academic journal article using the tools this chapter offers. (SLR and AATP)

4.     How effective do you think the writers are in presenting their findings? What do you think about the appropriateness of the language and structure in these two samples? Explain briefly.

Post brief answers to these questions to the course blog as a comment. One group should post only one comment.

Academic vs Nonacademic Writings

Post your definition of academic and non-academic writings and links to a few examples here as a comment. Only one comment per group. 

What is rhetoric?

Do some research and come up with a working definition of rhetoric. Apply that idea of rhetoric and analyze a rhetorical discourse/text/act. Post your definition here as a comment. 

Questions about First Major Assignment

Post your questions about the assignment here as a comment to this post. You can simply copy and paste the questions you've included in the minor assignment you've posted on your blog. 

Diagnostic Writing

Compose a personal essay that answers the following questions:

1. What do you think are your strongest attributes as a writer?
2. What are your biggest concerns about your own writing?
3. What are the sills you would most like to learn or improve upon in this class?


Post your essay to your blog.