Practice Citing Sources

Please don't forget about conferences next week. You can sign up for a conference slot using the google doc linked here. My office is LA 5 (landscape architecture). You can find it on the campus map http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/maps/ . If you go in through the doors pictured, its on your right. My desk is in the middle of the room on the right hand side.

Logical Appeals PPT

In Class Activity:
First: Cite the following sources in MLA style.

Use the Purdue owl website and your Everyday Writer as your guide:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

1) Thoreau excerpt from  Walden; or, Life in the Woods from the book American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 
Editor: Bill McKibben
Publisher: Literary Classics of the United States
Location: New York, NY.
Date of Publication: 2008

2) Michael Chabon "The Wilderness of Childhood" from the New York Review of Books website http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jul/16/manhood-for-amateurs-the-wilderness-of-childhood/?pagination=false

3) Eula Biss "Is This Kansas?" from the essay collection Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
Copywrite information available on the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Notes-No-Mans-Land-American/dp/1555975186/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329943679&sr=8-1-spell

Second: Correct the following paragraph so that it includes the correct in-text citations. Copy and paste it into your word document and use track changes to make the corrections.

Use the Purdue owl website and the Everyday Writer as your guides: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

Paragraph to correct:

Chabon earns the reader’s respect with his use of credible sources and through a demonstration of his own intelligence. In support of his position, he refers to the statistics released in 1999 in paragraph fourteen “According to the Justice Department, the number of abductions by strangers in the United States was 115. Such crimes have always occurred at about the same rate; being a child is exactly no more and no less dangerous than it ever was.”(Chabon) The US Department of Justice’s mission statement is “To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans” (U.S. Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/about/about.html). They are a credible source because they are held accountable to public scrutiny and because their intentions are to protect the people.  Chabon uses the Justice Department which builds support his own ideas, showing that parents are misguided to think they are doing the right thing by protecting their children. To emphasize the parents’ attitudes about keeping kids safe, the paragraph continues by explaining that children are seen as cult objects, too cherished to endanger. It is an unhealthy obsession, as children are seen more as possessions. This astute observation establishes the writer’s credibility as a man who is carefully considering the issue. Chabon uncovers ideas that the reader may not have considered, challenging their assumptions.  Chabon supports his claim with statistics from credible sources and observations which allow the readers to see him as a credible author. His use of expert sources and his own intelligence help him successfully convince his audience of his claim.

In Text Citation Corrections
Please share your word document with me as a Google doc.

Homework:

Week of February 27th- March 2nd: 

1 )Conferences. You will be meeting with me individually in my office instead of meeting as a whole class  this week. You will need to bring either a draft of assignment 3 or an outline to the conference, along with specific questions you have about the assignment. Your conference will count for two days of attendance that week. You will have only one chance to reschedule if you miss an appointment. To sign up for a conference, use the sign up sheet linked here.

2) Work on Assignment 3, due March 8th

March 6th: 

1) Read Everything’s an Argument p.515-533 

2) Read Michael Pollan: From  Omnivore’s Dilemma, American Earth p. 948-960 

3) Bring a draft of Assignment 3 to class for peer response

After Spring Break:

Optional Reading for Assignment 4: Everything’s and Argument chapter 8 or 12 depending on your groups chosen type of writing