Vocabulary Quiz List 17 Today

Don't forget that Steps 1-3 of your research project are due next week.  For those of you in need of extra credit, you should turn it in on Monday for the extra points.

Step 1:  Type your research proposal, which should include the following information in a paragraph:

What is your topic and why are you interested in it?  What question/s led you to the question for which you are seeking answers?  What is your working claim?  Remember that it needs to be a claim of policy.

Use MLA format:  12 pt font, double spaced, heading

Step 2:  You need to turn in print copies of pertinent pages from your sources.  For academic journals and for longer sources, print the first page and at least 2-3 additional pages that include information you might use for your paper.  For shorter sources, you should print the entire document.  For books, you should print at least 3 pages that contain information you might use.

These pages needed to be annotated.  Annotations should include highlighted text, your handwritten notes on the side with questions, comments, ideas.  Circled or boxed in text.  Sticky notes with additional notes.  Here's a video tutorial for annotation nonfiction texts:  VIDEO

Step 3:  You need to include a list of bibliographic entries.  Title it Bibliography centered at the top of the page.  Go to Easybib.com to set up your entries.  Once you have cited and collected them all, you can copy the entries and paste them onto your Word Document.

Homework:  Read "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, which can be found on page 914 in your textbook, A Language of Composition.  If you don't have your book, you are still responsible for reading the selection.  Here's a link to the selection.  Read!!!  Expect a reading check quiz on Tuesday, April 2nd.  "A Modest Proposal" is a very interesting selection (to put it mildly) with some unusual twists.  I will know if you read it or not, so read!!!