1. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Peer Planner Evaluation, Prepare for quiz then Response 7 1. How comfortable are you using computers? What computer programs do you know well? 2. What is your experience doing research and writing research papers? Do you like doing research? How well do you think you write? 3. What do you know about “peer editing”? When was the last time you did it? Was it effective

2. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Chapter7 Quiz (Get in Groups of up to 5 students. Hand in One Per Group) 1. Create an “exam” about Chapter 7. The exam MUST contain 1. 5 multiple choice 2. 5 True/False 3. 5 Short Answer 4. 1 Essay question

3. KEYS TO SUCCESS, SIXTH EDITION CAROL CARTER, JOYCE BISHOP, AND SARAH LYMAN KRAVITS Chapter 8 Researching and Writing: Gathering and Communicating Ideas

4. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Research, etc Computer Research requires computers We will be using room 212 –  SHARING with another class Each time you complete an assignment, meet back in this classroom for a debriefing.

5. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Website http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/ Writing_Research

6. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. How Can You Find Reliable Information on the Internet? Start with a Search Engine Use a Search Strategy Use Critical Thinking to Evaluate Every Source Research “Tree Octopus”  List 3 Facts about the Tree Octopus and turn it in.

7. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Internet Search Strategy Think carefully about what you want to locate Use a search engine to isolate sites under your desired topic or category Explore these sites to get a general idea of what’s out there Use your keywords in a variety of ways to uncover more possibilities Evaluate the number of links that appear When you think you are done, start over

8. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Evaluating Internet Information: The CARS Test for Information Quality C redibility A ccuracy R easonableness S upport Take a Look at Key 8.3, pg 249

9. Group Project Using the CARS method, evaluate the articles given to your group These are more reliable because they have Fact Checkers and Research to back them up..gov.edu.com.org More reliable Less reliable

10. Tree Octopus Facts Credibility Accuracy Reasonableness Support Donald Leu, University of Connecticut fabricated (made up) the tree octopus to test students’ ability to evaluate information they find on the internet. Created http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Did YOU trust the website? How does it stand up to CARS

11. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/ Writing_Research Fill out “CARS” worksheet by choosing 1-2 articles from website. Click on a link, analyze the article. Get definitions from pg 249

12. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Google (Yes, It’s a Verb) (pg 251) Form a group of up to 5 students. Follow the directions on pg 251. Choose a common topic to search. How many hits? How many different topics did your search return other than the topic you intended? Select 2 off-the-topic links and write a thesis statement that would require to use these leads in your research. What does this tell you about using search engines?

13. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Writing for a Purpose Form into groups Each group will choose a topic (or present one of your own!)  Tooth brushing  Ice cream  Automated teller machines (ATMs)  Sleep deprivation ½ of your group members will write a persuasive the other ½ of your group members will write an informative skit/speech about your topic

14. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. What Is the Writing Process? Planning Drafting Revising Editing

15. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. The Four Stages of the Writing Process Planning – Brainstorming, Free-writing, Journalists’ Questions, Research, Thesis & Outline Drafting – Introduction, Main Ideas (Body), Supporting Evidence, Conclusion Revising – Step back, take another look, be more objective Editing – Correcting errors - everyone must do this!

16. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Write a thesis statement This is the CENTRAL MESSAGE you want to communicate! State your subject and your point of view It should reflect your writing purpose: inform or persuade? It should be appropriate for the audience: the readers.

17. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Planning your essay Evidence Gathering Sheet Determine topic Determine purpose Combine the two to create THESIS Give REASONS you think that to be true Each reason becomes a topic sentence

18. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Evidence Gathering

19. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Essay planning part 2 Take each one of your “Reasons” from the topic starter Develop each one more fully into a para. With 2 examples

20. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Evidence Gathering: Paragraphs

21. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Brainstorming Write down thoughts related to the topic Organize the ideas into categories

22. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Organizing the Body of a Paper By Time – in order or reverse order By Importance – Most important to least important or reverse By Problem & Solution – Straightforward! By Argument – present both sides; make your own conclusion at the end By Cause & Effect – how events, ideas, or situations caused subsequent events By Comparisons – How events, people, situations, and ideas are the same (hint: find similes and metaphors) For more ideas, take a look at Key 8.5

23. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Avoiding Plagiarism by the way.. We use Turnitin.com here! Plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s exact words, figures, unique approach, or specific reasoning without giving credit. Some ways to avoid plagiarism include: Make sources notes as you go. Learn the difference between a quotation and a paraphrase. Use a citation even from an acceptable paraphrase. Understand that lifting material off the Internet is plagiarism. Take a Look at Key 8.6 for an example

24. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Citing your Sources Cite all mentions of another author’s original ideas, statistics, studies, borrowed concepts & phrases, images, quoted material, and tables. You do not have to cite facts which are commonly known by your audience and easily verified in reference sources.  Specifics are cited, general knowledge is not. When in doubt, cite your source.

25. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. (also known as ‘parenthetical documentation’) In other words- in parentheses. Your in-text citations work with your bibliography (works cited) page to identify where any quotes or ideas borrowed from another author came from. “References in the text MUST clearly point to specific sources in the list of works cited.” - MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6 th ed. In-text citations

26. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Works Cited page: MLA style citation Include a “Works Cited” page listing all sources cited within the body of the paper. Double-space, alphabetize the entries. Do not indent first line, but do indent the following line(s) in an entry. (Called “hanging indent” in MSWord.)

27. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Halio, Jay L., "Elizabethan Age." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2006. HF-L High School. 1 Apr 2006. Life in Elizabethan England. Summer 2005. 31 Mar 2006 <http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium>. Pressley, J. M. "An Encapsulated Biography." Shakespeare Resource Center, February 10, 2005. 3 Mar 2006.http://www.bardweb.net/man.html Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1969. Thomas, Heather. The Life in Times of Queen Elizabeth I. 23 Mar 2006. 1 Apr 2006. Works Cited page

28. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. example: When Mercutio is wounded, he screams “A plague on both your houses!” referring to both the Capulets and the Montagues (Shakespeare 70). The parenthetical notation (Shakespeare 70) identifies where the quote came from and refers to your bibliography page for further publication information. In-text citations: Direct Quote Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1969.

29. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Direct Quotes Direct quotation:  Educators are cautioned that “…labels tend to stick, and few people go back later to document a shifting profile of intelligences” (Gardner 139). Paraphrase with in-text citation:  Gardner explains that there are difficulties in labeling children with a type of intelligence, including the problem that labels may last, while the assessment may change (139).

30. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. How to Paraphrase

31. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Which of these should be cited? A. On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by hijacked airplanes. B. Atta, Binalshibh, al Shehhi, and Jarrah had lived in Germany and were chosen over more established Al Qaeda members due to their exposure to the West and ability to speak English.

32. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. B was correct: it is specific and not commonly known How would you cite it? In-body: Atta, Binalshibh, al Shehhi, and Jarrah had lived in Germany and were chosen over more established Al Qaeda members due to their exposure to the West and ability to speak English (National Commission 160). Works Cited: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

33. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Which of THESE do you need to cite? A. “The science labs at East St. Louis High School are 30 to 50 years outdated.” B. When public schools were segregated, conditions were not equal.

34. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. A! It is very specific, even w/ out quotes! How would you cite it? In-body: “The science labs at East St. Louis High School are 30 to 50 years outdated” (Kozol 27). Works Cited: Kozol, Jonathan. Savage inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

35. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Create a Works Cited Page (#7 on checklist) Use the website listed to create a “Works Cited” page. You don’t have to remember the format of each component, just use the Use an MLA creator like http://www.easybib.com/ or http://21cif.com/tools/cite/mla/index.html *if you want*or Download the template from Tosspon’s website *If you want*

36. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Analytical Questions to ask yourself as you revise Does the paper fulfill the requirements of the assignment? (topics, length, style) Will my audience understand my thesis and how I have supported it? Does the introduction prepare the reader and capture attention? Is the body of the paper organized well? Is each idea fully developed, explained, and supported by examples? Are my ideas connected to one another through logical transitions? Do I have a clear, “to the point” writing style? (try to avoid the passive voice!) Does the conclusion provide a natural ending to the paper?

37. Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6 th edition Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits Copyright ©2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. Homework! Homework (due next meeting): Chapter 8 Planner 7: Record two times when you used stress-reducing strategies, especially times related to test anxiety. Provide details and specifics. Write a paragraph reflecting on how employing stress- reducing strategies may help you perform better in school and on the job. Portfolio 7- On-the-Job Testing (pg 238) Portfolio 8- A Job Interview Cover Letter (pg 272) Portfolio7.docx Portfolio8.docxPortfolio7.docxPortfolio8.docx