AP Boot Camp Week 2                      Only 15 days left until the AP Exam!

MUG #11

What's wrong with this quote?     

Some experts have argued that a range of legitimate concerns justifies employer monitoring of employee Internet usage.  “Employees could accidentally (or deliberately) spill confidential corporate information . . . or allow worms to spread throughout a corporate network” (Tyman).

It has a floating quote, which by now, you should absolutely not be writing.  Fix it in one of several ways:

With a tag:

So and so of blankety blank says (or insert better verb), "Employees...." (Tyman).

According to so and so of blankety blank, "Employees...." (Tyman).

Better yet, integrate your introductory sentence with the quote:

Experts argue that legitimate concerns such as the possibility that “employees accidentally (or deliberately) spill confidential corporate information. . .or allow worms to spread throughout a corporate network” justify employer monitoring of employee Internet usage” (Tynan).

In class today:  Timed Writing rough draft of your synthesis/research prompt due at the end of class.  If you were absent, you are responsible for completing this draft on your own time.

Homework due today:  Annotations and SOAPStone for the two NYTimes essays (Fridman and Brooks).

Don't forget about Shmoop!  Passages 6-10 need to be completed this week.