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OAQS method- - -helps in giving clear, helpful, and complete feedback on peer writing. Observe-noticing and saying something about it Appreciate-to praise something in writing Question-asking after reading the essay Suggest-giving helpful advice about possible changes. What is a working bibliography and why do we use it? - - a list of the sources that you have used and or intend to use in your research. -Compiling this list helps you to track your research, develop your final bibliography, and avoid plagiarism. different type of organizational effects. how to organize it. wh - -Cause and effect -Compare and contrast -Chronological -problems and solution What is brain storming/reading early? Why and how do we use it? - -you stimulate your subconscious mind to mull over issues, identify problems, and project solutions even while conscious mind is working on other things. how to summarize papers - -requires sifting out the least important points, sorting the essential ones to show their relationships, and stating those points in your own words. Skim first by reading closely/re-read - capture the text argument/state main point in own words by being objective-test your summary/check summary against original. different types of verbs - action-Harry "honked" the horn linking/state of being- Harry is impatient/ harry "seems" Auxiliary/helping-Harry "was" honking the truck's horn. colons - Ellipsis - three periods to show that one or more words have been omitted in a quotation. When typing leave one space before and after each period. (.. .) Period - Used to end a sentence that makes a statement , requests something, or gives a mild command. e.g Solomon has a Ph.D. question mark - -Used at the end of a direct question. e.g what can I know? -do not use for an indirect question. e.g After listening to Edgar sing, My Bryant asked him if he had ever had formal voice training. -Do you often ask yourself,"What should I be?"
-Used to show uncertainty- This July will be the 34th (?) anniversary of the first moon walk. Capitalization - Used for proper nouns and all proper adjectives Max suggested,"Let's take the guided tour of the campus first." e.g The Republican Party. Also a specific course (e.g Who teaches Art History 202?). Capitalize the months of the year (January). -do not capitalize: when in parenthesis and located in the middle of another sentence. -Giving directions e.g (They moved south to cut the tree) compared to (Many businesses moved to the South). The latter determines a section of the country. -Follows a possessive (Did your dad park the stereo?) compared to (Did Dad pack the stereo)? -A field of study (Professor Deal loves teaching history) -Seasons of the year are not to capitalized. What is a personal essay and why do we write them? rules about - -Writers develop personal essays to explore meaningful aspects of life-people, experiences, and things that they care for and are shaped by. Rules: PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, TOPIC. Written for the general audience Types: Narration (Characters, Dialogue, Action, Settings), Description, Reflection Anecdote - A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. OR a brief story that enlivens your writing while introducing a topic or illustrating an idea. Anecdote can introduce a topic, illustrate a process, illustrate a problem. SQ3R - a study method incorporating five steps: Survey-Preview Material Question-who, what when, how Read, Retrieve, Review Importance of Surveying - -helps to focus on the writer's message -identify its organization -anticipate how the text will develop Mapping text - A way to visually help you remember is a form of mapping aka Clustering. This is helps to better understand a text. clustering - organizing items into related groups during recall from long-term memory. this can be shown in a graphical form with the main idea circled in the middle and building on it using smaller circles with different colors inductive and deductive reasoning - from specific to general & from general to specific
Climax - when you first present details and then provide a general climactic statement or conclusion drawn from the details. Personal pronouns - I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs Avoid use in formal essays, but can be used for some informal essays. Unnecessary qualifiers - mostly, often, likely, tends to, totally, completely. Dangling word group - A phrase that has no word to modify or appears to modify the wrong word Obfuscation/camouflage - the action of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible Ambiguity - The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. Euphemisms - overly polite expressions that avoid stating an uncomfortable truth. e.g using economically challenged neighborhood instead of impoverished. Double speak - phrasing that deliberately seeks either to hide the truth from readers or to understate the situation. e.g the doctor executed a non facile manipulation of new born (meaning-the doctor dropped the baby during delivery) Writing you paper - -Font size=10- -Font Type= Sans serif for the title, body, and headings. -18 font size for titles -Indent first line 5 spaces -1 inch margin on both sides -Double space throughout paper Avoid the widows (avoid carrying single words or short last lines of paragraphs to the top of a new page and orphans (leaving headings, hyphenate words, or single lines of new paragraphs alone at the bottom of the page. working thesis - offers a preliminary answer to the main research question. The focus of the research. limited topic+tentative claim, statement/hypothesis= working thesis. -its subject to changes Library of Congress - A system of classification used in most academic and research libraries. Artifact - any object made or modified by a human culture and later discovered.
Examples of primary sources - diaries/journals, letters, interview, photographs, speeches, magazine and newspaper articles published at the time of the event, memoirs, government documents, artifacts (buttons, posters, flags, etc.) Fuel efficiency legislation, Published statistics about hybrid car sales. examples of secondary sources - -journals, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, magazine article, TV roundtable news on advantages and disadvantages of innovations in hybrid car technology, promotional literature for a specific hybrid car. Examples of tertiary sources - wikipedia, popular magazines Boolean operators - -are words or symbols used when searching research databases and that describe the relationship between various words or phrases in a search. -AND, OR, and NOT used in search strings to refine the scope of the search Library of Congress call numbers - alphanumeric code for describing and organizing library books Video QH84. 1.A72 1990 QH-Subject area 84-topic number 1-subtopic number A72-Cutter number Dewey Decimal System - uses numbers only Index - an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed. This is usually found at the end of books. -searchable lists of resources on various topics almanacs - an annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables. Appendix - sections(in a book) that provide additional or background information. incase an abbreviation was used it provides information about it. Glossaries - section of a book where key terms used are defined, mini dictionary in the back of a book Domain names - Helps to know what type of organization created the page. e.g .com, .gov, .edu, .mil URL - Uniform Resource Locator e.g www.dhs.gov Subject tree - a list of websites, arranged by experts
