English 106 Introductory Composition

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APA has included some supplemental information on how you can cite YouTube sources, and the following website gives some helpful advice on how you can do it:

(Scroll down to Media- Video Clip Retrieved from the Internet)

http://www.library.ubc.ca/ubco/apastyle.html

Final Research Paper presentations will begin this Friday the 18th. Here are the requirements for the presentations (click on the above heading to see the full entry):

Length: 7 minutes each + 2 additional minutes for questions from the audience. You must stay within your required time limit. Practice your presentation beforehand so that you know how long it will take.

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Another useful online search tool I forgot to mention is http://del.icio.us/. This is an online bookmarking site, like the Favorites function in Internet Explorer, but one that you can access anywhere (and exchange with friends).

On this website you can search topics by the tags users put on their bookmarked webpages. With this site you can find websites by topic and see how many people have bookmarked the website.

Here is an interesting website of a visual artist who uses visual accumulation to depict and critique contemporary American culture:

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

"Be Kind Rewind" is a new film with Jack Black and Mos Def that has some great examples of reappropriation. The website is fun too, and you can create a video cassette box with your own pictures (see "Swede Yourself"):

www.bekindmovie.com

Here are the examples of video reappropriation (using the same format but changing the message) that I mentioned in class. (CLICK THE HEADING ABOVE TO SEE ALL THE ENTRIES)

This is a parody of the Apple Macbook Air television commercial: