Week 9 - March 3 - 9
By Monday, March 3 at midnight:
Read Annotated
Bibliographies at Purdue's OWL.
Post to your weblog at least four (4) sources useful for your group's white paper. Be sure to use sources not yet reported by your group members. You must include all citation information in MLA format; double-check URLs to make sure they work. Include an annotation for each of no less than 150 words in which you note the key concepts from the source. You might also address the credibility of the source and rank (and justify) its overall usefulness for the paper. While the minimum word count is 150 words, you could certainly write much more and take effective notes to share with your group members.
By Wednesday, March 5 at midnight:
Post to your weblog at least four (4) more sources useful for your group's white paper. Be sure to use sources not yet reported by your group members. You must include all citation information in MLA format; double-check URLs to make sure they work. Include an annotation for each of no less than 150 words in which you note the key concepts from the source. You might also address the credibility of the source and rank (and justify) its overall usefulness for the paper. While the minimum word count is 150 words, you could certainly write much more and take effective notes to share with your group members.
By Friday, March 7 at midnight:
Review the sources of EVERY other group member. The review should consist of reading the sources
and then responding to the group member's blog post of annotations by posting a comment. In your
response, engage with the information provided by the group member and provide any other useful,
additional notes for the source. These comments count toward your five weekly comments/replies.
Keep in mind that the annotated bibliography is due the day we return from spring break - Monday,
March 17th. Therefore you may wish to start working on compiling it as a group in advance so that
you can check for errors, inconsistencies, etc. immediately upon returning from break.
Read all sections (1-4) in "Evaluating Sources of Information" at Purdue's OWL.
By Sunday, March 9 at midnight:
Complete the Mid-Semester Posting Checklist Sheet (see link at the bottom
of the page; this document was emailed to you earlier in the semester also). Name your
file "lastname-mid-reading-response.doc." Email your completed document to your instructor.
Your individual project log should be completed and posted in your blog by tonight. See the
Project Log Guidelines.
Continue posting comments and replies using Principles for Comments and Replies. You need five (5) for this week.
Check out Week 10. No later than today, you should read through the course calendar for the following week. If you have any questions, contact the instructor.