October 3rd

IN CLASS:
We are going to practice crafting a message, using audience awareness.

1. With a partner, you will construct a group explanation of the car accident. You will each submit this document to Google Classroom.

You were in a slight, no-injury, car accident...
As a group, you will construct an explanation of the accident for three different audiences..
1. Your parents.
2. Your insurance company.
3. Your Best Friend.

Consider the purpose of communication AND audience awareness. What needs to be included? What needs to be omitted? What about the tone? What is the ultimate purpose for each audience?

Use your notes to craft your explanation.

FOR Wednesday: 

1. Review and take notes on the Writing to an Academic Audience link...
FOUND HERE:
Audience Awareness Advice- Formal Audience

2. Open a Google Doc., then pick THREE of your classes that you are enrolled currently.

    a. Imagine you have been assigned a 3 page paper on a subject that you are currently studying in each class.

    b. You are going to do a thorough analysis of what you think EACH teacher/audience will or will not want in the written communication from you..  This can be a list/bullet points.

    c. To consider when doing this analysis: The information found above (academic audience link) + questions to consider that I gave you  + your experience so far in that class + explicit references from the teacher + implied directions from the teacher

    d. Make sure that you consider the "stuff" you want back from the written communication, so you can make sure that you have a realistic expectation of what your communication needs to achieve.

EXAMPLE:

Characteristics you may mention:

Precise attention to grammar and mechanics.

Following citation guide to the letter.

Sources need to be strong and reputable.

Needs knowledge info... does not want knowledge level info..

September 27th

1. Introduction to the Art of Communication. Induction into "Writing Boot Camp".

2. Step #1 of Writing: Audience Awareness:

President Obama's White House Correspondence Dinner Speech

President Obama's Newtown Speech

Audience Awareness Speech Evaluation Handout

3. Read and take notes on the following information on Audience awareness. Put this in a place that you will easily be able to access this information.

Writing for an academic audience HANDOUT

4. Quiz on Friday over this information.

September 26th

You have submitted your annotated bibliography... YAY! It's done!

We are getting started today with the World of Writing!

To do this, we are going to start with a grammar/mechanics conventions diagnostic test to
see what components we need to attend to as we work to improve our effective written communication...

This quiz is located on Noredink.com.
You were given your class code during class.

Please complete the quiz by 3:00 PM on Wednesday, September 27th.

After you have finished your quiz, it will take you through your missed questions.
I would suggest you do this!

September 25th

1. Your complete Annotated Bibliography is DUE today at the end of the class period today.

Please Review:

• The checklist you used for the first annotation and check it against annotation 2 and 3. 
• Make sure that your 3 annotations are alphabetized... not in the order that you completed them.
• Look at the sample annotated bibliography with multiple sources and make sure that your annotated bibliography looks EXACTLY like this sample.. spacing, formatting. 
• Double check your MLA citation for each annotation.
• Go thoroughly through the scoring guide for this assignment. (Found in Friday's post).

2. Upload to Google Classroom BY THE END OF CLASS.

Friday, September 22nd

1. You are coming to class today with your 2 sources that you have already read and noted.
2. Using your cleaned up/perfected Annotation #1 as your guide, you will be creating annotations for sources 2 and 3.

VERY IMPORTANT:

• You will be adding these two annotations to your document with your already written/edited ANNOTATION #1. 
• You will need to ALPHABETIZE your annotation entries... SO, the first one you have written MAY become the second or third in order... it will depend upon the authors of the two sources you have found.  
• DO NOT repeat the MLA Heading with each new annotation.  You will just be adding the two sources to your already established document. Look again at the sample annotated bibliography with instruction. This source has multiple annotations. Your document will look like this. 

3.  Create your citation for your next source. Look at the database citation suggestion, but double check it against the OWL guide.


4. Write your three paragraphs for this source. 1st: Summary. 2nd: Assessment. 3rd: Reflection

5. Repeat for your 3rd source.

6. Review the entire document. Use the checklist that you were given for the first annotation to help review your following 2 annotations.  Compare it AGAIN to the sample annotated bibliography with the multiple sources.

7. Review the scoring guide for this assignment: Found HERE: Annotated Bibliography Scoring Guide

Your complete ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY with three annotations is DUE at the end of class on MONDAY, September 25th to GOOGLE CLASSROOM.

September 20th

1. You have come into class today with your FIRST annotation printed off and ready for review.

2. You will have TWO classmates review your annotation. You will utilize the following checklist to review and proof the first annotation. Annotated Bib Peer Proof Checklist.  Have each proofreader use the same checklist sheet.

Proofreaders: In addition to using the checklist to review the annotation, also open up the sample annotation example to make sure that they look IDENTICAL!

3. When you get your proofed/reviewed annotation back after being examined by TWO classmates, thoughtfully make adjustments/corrections.  You will want to look through the sample annotation example, yourself, as you are cleaning up/perfecting this first annotation.

NOW....

4.  You will be finding... on your own... TWO MORE SOURCES for your argument to add to your annotated bibliography.

Please visit the LMC Databases to find your ideal sources: LSNHS LMC Research Databases

You have already been guided through the process of:

• Evaluating an effective source
• Note taking when reading a source
• Finding the correct citation information on a source, and writing it, using MLA formatting

For FRIDAY, September 22nd:

Bring to class your two articles that have been read and have your thorough notes with you. Replicate the process we used for the first article.

September 19th

Today you will be creating the first annotation from the "Book World" article that you prepared for today.

1. Take out the sample annotation that you marked yesterday. Also, open up the sample Annotated Bibliography with Instruction link that we examined yesterday. It is the perfect "how to" for the Annotated Bibliography.

2. Open up a Google Document and start formatting your page- Header, MLA heading, Colon title, etc.

3. Provide the bibliography information citation first. Yes, look at the bottom of the source for this information, BUT, double check that it is updated to MLA 8 edition. To do this, check HERE: Online Database Citation- MLA  Scroll down to online database citation example, and make sure that you have all the needed information.. take out what you don't need.

4.  Start writing your 3 paragraphs... FIRST- The Summary of the article. SECOND- The Assessment of the source (use the LMC guidelines). THIRD- The Reflection of how the source can be used in your argument. You will need to add TWO direct quotes from the article within the three paragraphs. Make sure that you introduce your quote.. and cite it correctly. 

Davidson explains that "she has used technology to help her students work more effectively in groups" (Roth).

** Note that Davidson is the author of the BOOK that ROTH is reviewing in the article.
** Also note that I used the word "that" in my introduction of a quote.. this means NO COMMA.

REMINDERS:

• Write in 3rd person POV... no "I" and, really no "YOU". 
• Double spaced
• Block indent of all of the paragraphs
• Citation uses hanging indent on second and sequential lines of the citation
• Look at the example and then look at your formatting... identical? 
• Do you have 2 direct quotes from the article within your writing? Cited correctly?

FOR WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY:

5. When finished, you will need to PRINT OFF your annotation for class on Wednesday/Thursday to bring TO class. You will not use the digital copy for class... nor will you be allowed to print during class.