English 505

It's been forever since I last posted. Sorry about that. I've been working for the last two weeks on preparing their assignments for the paper 2 project. I handed out their third response paper (attached) last wednesday, which they just turned in this afternoon. I made them choose a topic to advocate (which they will be working with for the 3-5 page research paper) and then find two sources to evaluate. I had them choose one that they believed was a good source and one that they believed was bad, and then use the section in CDA that we talked about to evaluate its credibility and relevance. On Friday, I had them choose a topic and I did some web searches on it and looked at some sources, asking them to explain to me what they saw about the page that made it credible or not. We also did searches on Megasearch and some other databases. The last two classes have pretty much just gone over the readings.