English Comp Week 9jorge gomez

Extra Credit—I will be here!

Monday, Oct. 25. Reading and Book Signing: “Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community” by Dr. Mónica Perales, Assistant Professor, Houston.

9 a.m. Liberal Arts Building, Room 319.

Extra Credit—I will be here too!

An evening with Sam Tanenhaus Editor of The New York Times Book

Review 7:00 p.m. Friday October 22nd, 2010 Blumberg AuditoriumUTEP Library The Death of Conservatism

Extra Credit—And here!

Community Problem Report

Genre: A formal report. Purpose: To explain the issue as well

as its relevance. In other words, why is it important?

Audience: Your scholarly peers, and me.

4-6 pages. APA Style. Moving from evidence (your sources)

to a conclusion (based on logos/reason)

Community Problem Report Includes…

Use of YOUR SOURCES from the annotated bib ▪ This deals with learning how to conduct research

Background information (when did it start, etc.) The facts (who, what, when, where, why) The CURRENT state of the issue One to two VISUAL AIDS A thesis statement in the introduction In CONCLUSION: why is it important? ▪ This section is where you draw conclusions from your sources▪ Think of the conclusion as an appeal to the audience’s values ▪ Why should your audience care about this issue?

Research Methods

How to Use Sources: Read and mark as you go Print the articles Make comments on important passages▪ This is called “marginalia” ▪ Comments made in the “margins” of a book/article ▪ You could categorize/color code your comments

Facts/important dates/local connection/global impact

Get physical Underline relevant and important passages Highlight Circle

Sample Marginalia

“This is the author’s thesis” “Important” “Interesting point/fact/source in

article” “Important fact” “Important date” “Local connection” “Global significance” “Good comparison” “Good argument here”

CPR: Resources

McGraw-Hill GuideChapter 6 – Writing to Inform

Chapter 13 – Using Strategies that Guide Readers

Guide to First Year CompositionWriting to Inform: Community Problem

ReportPages 287-312

On Abstracts

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

CPR Due Date

Friday, Oct. 29, 10pm