Week Two Live Chat

1. Week Two Live Chat Discussion Board and Individual Project

2. Weekly Grades Information • Please note: I will have your weekly grades posted by midnight Wednesday. I will try to get them up earlier, but midnight Wednesday is my deadline. • If (before Wednesday at midnight) you see that your DB grade is posted but your IP grade isn’t posted yet, please wait to contact me; I grade all the DBs and then all the IPs, so there’s no need to worry unless a grade is still missing after midnight.

3. Discussion Board

4. Discussion Board • The Assignment: • Locate an editorial in a newspaper, magazine, or journal related to topic and issue you wrote about in Unit 1. An editorial is an article which expresses an opinion or viewpoint on a specific issue or problem. Editorials are found in the opinion or editorial section of newspapers, magazines, or journals. Search newspapers online or use the AIU Library databases. Read the editorial and write a summary and critique of the article.

5. Your DB post • Summary paragraph: Identify the author and title of the article in one sentence. In your own words, state the author’s opinion (main point) on the issue. Explain how the writer defines or explains the issue in support of his or her main point. • Critique:  Compare and contrast your opinion on the issue with the author’s position. Support your ideas with analysis, reasons, and evidence. An effective way to do this is to cite evidence which supports your reasoning. Use in-text citations to document paraphrased and quoted passages from source(s) in APA format. • Reference Citation: at the end of your posting, type a correctly formatted reference citation for the source(s) used in your posting.

6. Finding an Editorial • Make sure it’s an editorial (opinion, op-ed, editorial) • Search the AIU Library Databases • Examine your local newspaper • Check major papers online: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and so on. • Run a search online using Google. Make sure your editorial is from a legitimate news source

7. Hints for Writing the DB • Read the editorial carefully. Take note of the author’s thesis and supporting evidence. • Write the DB in three paragraphs: • Paragraph One:the Summary: • Summarize:Who is the author? What is the title? What is the author’s argument? How does he or she make that argument? What are the major points of the argument? Support your claims with evidence from the text.

8. Hints, cont. • Paragraph Two: First Critique Paragraph • Analyze: Does the author make his or her argument effectively? Is the argument convincing or compelling? Why or why not? At what point is the argument particularly effective? Ineffective? Why? Support your claims with evidence from the article. • Paragraph Three: Second Critique Paragraph • Synthesize: What are your conclusions about what the author is attempting to argue and about how well he or she does so? Don’t assume that your audience will draw the same conclusions from your analysis; state your conclusions clearly and support them.

9. Include an APA-style reference entry • In a traditional paper, this would be on a separate page. For your DB, just skip a line or two and use your entry. • At the end of this chat I will briefly go over a few different APA-style reference entries.

10. Individual Project

11. Individual Project • The Assignment: • Using the same topic (issue), selected in Unit 1, conduct research and write a plan for the research paper on your issue that will be written Unit 3. The purpose of your research is to locate sources related to the topic (issue) in order to become more informed about the issue and its related arguments and evidence discussed in credible outside sources and then select appropriate sources to support your thesis and main points.

12. IP, cont. • Assignment, cont. • To begin the process, use the AIU library databases and online search tools to conduct research and locate five sources related to your issue and thesis statement. Evaluate sources for currency, relevancy, and credibility/authority. General commercial websites should not be used for this assignment (e.g. no Wikipedia). Also, encyclopedia reference books or dictionaries should not be used as sources (unless you include more than five sources).

13. Using the AIU Library • Click on “Library” • Click on “Find Articles and Books” • Fill in keywords (be creative, be persistent) • Select a category (or click “all categories”) • Click “Search” • Note that the first database list that comes up is generally “Credo Reference”—you cannot use those sources for this assignment! • Spend some time reviewing the list—you might need to spend a little time searching for appropriate articles.

14. On the Web • Wikipedia is not a valid source. • Try to find reliable references—find out as much as you can about the author. • Which sites are good? Generally .gov or .edu are okay; .com might or might not be reliable. You want to make sure that you are using sources that are valid and useful.

15. Sources • Your sources must include: • 2 scholarly articles from scholarly journals, including academic or peer reviewed journals; these will probably come from the AIU library. • 1 editorial article from a newspaper or magazine (you may use same editorial source found for the DB 2). • 1 book or book chapter (no book reviews, reference books or general dictionary sources). You may use Google books for this, or use the AIU library. • 1 organizational, government or educational Internet source (.org, .gov, or .edu)

16. Research Plan • The research project plan must contain the following parts: • Thesis statement: if I said you need to work more on the thesis, this would be a good place to do so. • Topic outline of supporting points, including specific details for each point. • Annotated Bibliography including five citations in APA documentation format, each with a brief summary paragraph: in your own words, write a two to three sentence summary the source’s main point and identifying key expert views or evidence which will help support specific points in your outline.

17. Topic Outline • I want you to use a traditional outline form: This sample taken from woodward.edu

18. Annotated Bibliography • An Annotated Bibliography is a working bibliography—creating one helps you get your notes about your sources together and keeps you focused on your thesis as you do your research. • I suggest that you create notes (that’s what “annotated” means) that illustrate how each source ties back to your thesis. • Here’s an example from my dissertation (please note that yours will have slightly different types of notes; the point is that you need to include your notes about each source):

19. Annotated Working Bibliography: Feminine Violence in Eighteenth-Century Literature Working Thesis: Some Restoration and eighteenth-century literature by women encourages acts of feminine violence as a means of social control. Brown, M. G. (1986). Fanny Burney's 'Feminism': Gender or Genre? in Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski (Eds.)Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670‑1815. Athens: Ohio University Press. 33-58. Brown notes that in Frances Burney's novels, "the heroines are victimized by women as often as by men" (p. 33), but does so only in order to point out one weakness of feminist readings of those novels—she does not explore the larger implications of feminine violence in Burney's fiction.

20. Michie, H. (1992). Sororophobia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Although Michie discusses Victorian literature in general and representations of sisters in particular, her comments on the inherently feminist nature of critically examining "unsisterly" behavior are pertinent: "In positing a place for sisterhood in . . . literary tropology that allows for expression of hostility among women, I want to insist [that] . . . feminists need themselves to provide rhetorical and political room for the expression of female difference, for anger and mistrust among women" because literary works "frequently enrich and complicate feminist notions of sisterhood, as they undermine our most dearly cherished tropes of female unity" (21). Nussbaum, F. A. (1984). The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires on Women 1660-1750. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Nussbaum discusses women as victims of violence. She focuses particularly on the ways in which satire reviled women.

21. Spender,D. (1983). Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them. London: ARK. Spender is more inclined to discuss women as victims of violence than as agents of violence. Todd, J. (1989). The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. Janet Todd repeatedly notes negative portrayals of women by male satirists, but only glances at negatively charged characters in works by female authors, claiming that "the rapacious heroine" of AphraBehn'sThe Fair Jilt (1688) exemplifies a typical "lack of moral placing"; in Behn's work, says Todd, "evil is not scandalously and seductively triumphant, but it simply seems to pay" (121). That is, Miranda's repeated attempts to have her sister murdered in order to gain the family fortune in its entirety go largely unpunished. At the end of the novella, Miranda is residing happily in the country, having outlived the husband who attempted to commit murder at her request. By claiming that Miranda exemplifies merely "a lack of moral placing" (177), Todd dismisses the possibility that Behn's depiction of Miranda as an amoral woman willing to commission violence might be worthy of critical attention.

22. Include an APA-style References Page • For a printed newspaper editorial: Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star trek. Los Angeles Times, p. A3. • For an online newspaper source: Parker, T. (2008, May 10). Why the U.S. won’t stop the drug trade. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com

23. APA References Continued • For a printed magazine or scholarly journal source: Devine, P. G., & Sherman, S. J. (1992). Intuitive versus rational judgment and the role of stereotyping in the human condition: Kirk or Spock? Psychological Inquiry, 3(2), 153-159. • For magazine or journal source from a database: Hodges, F. M. (2003). The promised planet: Alliances and struggles of the gerontocracy in American television science fiction of the 1960s. The Aging Male, 6(3), 175-182. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.

24. References, cont. • For a book: Okuda, M., & Okuda, D. (1993). Star trek chronology: The history of the future. New York: Pocket Books. • For a website: The Writing Process. (1995-2011). The Purdue Online Writing Lab. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ section/1/1/.