October 16

Vocab

Evaluation Workshop


1. Give me a copy of your evaluation draft.
2. Hand out your copy to 2 of your peers.
3. Read your evaluation out loud.  Your peers should make marks as you read.  Especially mark where the writing is confusing and does not make sense.
4. Discuss your evaluation.  What makes sense?  Where is the language confusing?
5. Make sure that all of the parts to an evaluation are included (see below)
6. Repeat for each member of the group.

Work on revising your evaluation.


Parts of an evaluation:
1. Introduction of the article. This includes article title, publication title, date, author(s) and brief summary/main points.
2. What is your opinion of this article and its effectiveness?  Evaluate how this article works.  What is done well and what is done poorly.
3. How does this article work with your issue?  Will you use anything from this article in your own paper?  Were any questions raised by reading this article that could help your research?
4.  Conclusion.  Restate the main point of the article and quickly let us know if overall this article works.

Write:
1. Why do we write summaries and evaluations of other research and published articles?
2. How does that contribute to your own research and argument?


Annotated Bibliographies - start looking at different research/articles and begin figuring out who you can interview.

Looking Forward:
Friday, October 18 - Evaluation Due.  Upload to the specific Elearning dropbox
Monday, October 21 -
*College Writing Skills, Read Chapter 26.  Complete activities 1, 2, 3, and 4.
* Bring all of your research to class.  Hopefully we will be meeting in a computer lab.