Week 4 Assignment

Week 4: Annotated Bibliography due October 3rd

Your assignment is to locate websites or sources that cover choosing the right university or college.  You must have at least one site that deal with helping students to pick a university in Europe, and one site that deals specifically with the United State, and another that focuses on Canada.  You may evaluate a college that you plan to attend, but this can not be on of the 6 you are assigned. 

You must annotate 6 websites, but no more than 8.  You may work in pairs, even turn in one final assignment together, but you must each complete a rubric.  

You will need to evaluate the sites based on what material is covered, how it is presented (use of graphics, ease of navigation, overall appearance), and what additional information (if any) you think the sites should have included but did not. Write a brief paper explaining what is covered in these websites, including a list of the websites by title with complete, accurate URLs.  Include your names, the assignment title, course and date, as with all assignment submissions. 

*Remember this should be in MLA format, and follow all the formatting rules for our class.

Writing an Annotated Biblography

Below is the video we watched in class on Tuesday.  

These are sites to help you with annotated bibliographies:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill28.htm

Week 3 Wrap-Up

We will be quizzed on this information on Wednesday, but this is a summary of what Ms. Bergstrom talked about in class all week.

We went over Noodle Tools, and why it is useful.  Remember that through Noodle Tools you can do your citations, it helps you check for errors, shows you how to do intext citation, and you can even do annotations with Noodle Tools bibliography.

From Moodle you can find links to JSTOR and EBSCO.  If you use EBSCO at home, you will need a login and password, you can pick those up in the library if you didn't get a bookmark from Ms. Bergstrom. 

We spent a lot of the week discussing the differences between academic and non-academic sources.  If a source is peer-reviewed, that is one of the key ways to identify that the source is academic.

When we evaluate sources the four things to look at are:

1. currency (when was it published, updated, etc.)
2. relevance/usefulness
3. bias
4. authority

Beach Day

Week 2 Assignment

For your week 2 assignment, you need to write at least 2 pages about the person who has been the most influential on your life.  It can be a person living or dead; describe how they have shaped or impacted your life.  This is due on Monday, September 19th. 

Purdue Online Writing Lab

The Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) is a great resource for learning more about citation styles and formats for research papers.  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

This week we are focusing on MLA Style.  The Modern Language Association is the most commonly used style for research papers.  This is the link to what we went over in class today.  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

You can also go directly to here, for what a Works Cited page should look like.  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

Remember for all your assignments you need in-text citation and a works cited page.  

Contact

You can reach me via e-mail at cdelong@gwa.ac.ma, remember to cc any e-mails to safeHS@gwa.ac.ma

Class Syllabus

You can find our class syllabus online here:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/64044379

Week 1 Assignment

"All About Me" Essay, due on September 12, 2011

Write 2 - 3 pages telling me all about you.  Include information about your family, languages you speak at home, if you have lived anywhere outside of Morocco, how long you have been at GWA, or any interests/hobbies you have.