TODAY GOALS Review MLA Works Cited page notation Discuss expectations of our WTI essays Peer review the second draft of our WTI essays

WORKS CITED PAGE Your Works Cited page should include a detailed description of each source you used and where it can be found (directions on the following slides) Should read “Works Cited” centered at the top. No italics, bold, or underlining of the text are necessary Each source entry should be added on a new line Use a hanging indent for all source entries This has no indent on the first line of the source but all subsequent lines are indented Hanging indents can be found under paragraph settings in Microsoft Word

WORKS CITED PAGE Books: Author Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Edition of book. Editors. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Ex: Whittaker, James. Blogs: The New Journals. 2 nd ed. Ed. Colleen O’Malley. New York: Penguin, Print. Edition and editors are only used if necessary If two or three authors are used, list all of them. However, if three or more authors are used, you list the first author followed by “et al.” Ex: Whittaker, James, and Marie Munroe. Ex: Whittaker, James, et al.

WORKS CITED PAGE Newspapers: Author Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication. Ex: Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: Print. Periodicals Author Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Volume.Issue (Year):pages. Database (if applicable). Medium of publication. Date of access (if accessed online) Example: Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): JSTOR. Web. 5 Apr Most of the peer reviewed articles from the library databases will fall into this format

WORKS CITED PAGE Electronic Sources Author Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article” (if applicable). Title of Website. Version numbers or revisions. Publisher or Company, Date of Publication. Web. Date of access. Ex: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug Web. 4 May Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given. URLs are no longer required Websites can be some of the most difficult to cite due to formatting concerns and lack of relevant information No more than 1 website!

CLASS DISCUSSION- WTI EXPECTATIONS How would you describe the historical marker essay to a new student? What sections/parts should our WTI essay have? How would you describe the writing style of historical markers? What kind of thesis should a historical marker have and where should it be located? What are the areas in which your historical marker will be scored?

GROUP ACTIVITY- WTI PEER REVIEW Pair up with one other student Read through the student’s essay, answer the following questions, and share the answers with your peer 1.Where will this historical marker be located? How will this affect the audience who reads it? 2.What is the thesis of this essay? Is it located in a suitable part of the essay? 3.How does the writer choose interesting information or keep their readers engaged? Is the writer successful in keeping your interest? 4.What is one strong/positive aspect of the essay that you could learn from? 5.What is one part of the essay that still needs revision? What suggestion would you give to your peer about this part?

GROUP ACTIVITY- WTI PEER REVIEW – PART 2 Pair up with a different student Read through the student’s essay, answer the following questions (on a separate sheet of paper), and share the answers with your peer 1.Where will this historical marker be located? How will this affect the audience who reads it? 2.What is the thesis of this essay? Is it located in a suitable part of the essay? 3.How does the writer choose interesting information or keep their readers engaged? Is the writer successful in keeping your interest? 4.What is one strong/positive aspect of the essay that you could learn from? 5.What is one part of the essay that still needs revision? What suggestion would you give to your peer about this part? When you are finished, staple both peer reviews to the current draft of your essay and read through them.

BLOG ENTRY 6 Take a few minutes to read through both peer reviews of your essay and begin writing blog 6 based on this feedback. Focus: Peer feedback and WTI revision Now that you have completed your peer review and read through two sets of peer feedback, take a few minutes to think about that feedback and how you will use it and the peer review experience to revise your essay as you work towards the final draft. What was most helpful to you from the peer review exercise? What did your peers think was strong about your essay? Do you agree? What suggestions for revision did your peers offer? Do you think these suggestions are helpful and correct? How did your essay compare in different areas to the essays of your peers? What will you do to revise the second draft of your essay to improve it for your final draft?

HOMEWORK Class cancelled on Friday for conferences Upload Blog Entry 6 WTI Final Draft words (this should include everything, even the Works Cited page) 3 sections: Location, text, and Works Cited page Submitted to Turnitin.com by Monday at midnight