The discussion in today's class elaborates on the assigned reading for this week about citations, posted in the Week Two Overview post. If you have not yet done the assigned reading, do so now so that you are caught up by Friday.
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Today in class, we discussed the politics of citation.
- What kinds of citations have you noticed in the different sources you have looked at for your controversy?
- Social Media - what is the Facebook or Twitter equivalent of citations? What purpose do they serve?
- General Media - quotes, copyright notices (New York Times article example), hyperlinks
- Scholarly sources - MLA style, APA style, Chicago style, etc.
- Why is it important to cite your sources?
- What do the requirements about citing sources reveal about the values are important in our culture?
2. We also briefly touched on the politics of summary: the difference between quotes, paraphrases, and summaries, and why accurate summary is important. The example we discussed in class is the Planned Parenthood/fetal tissue harvesting controversy.
For Friday:
- Finish the assigned reading in the Student's Guide and Rules for Writers.
- Post blogs 5-8.
- If you purchased the (optional) Writing Public Lives textbook, read Chapter 10 “Patterns of Belief: Analyzing Cultural Values and Ideology in Controversies.”
BLOG POST 9: Annotated Bibliography Draft 1
- List the six sources you have so far in alphabetical order by last name to make the beginnings of your bibliography. Use the citation style appropriate to your subject matter.
- Review the Student's Guide 6.6 and write a short annotation for each source. Follow the examples on pages 112-13. Be sure to include the last point in the annotation, in which you describe how you think you might use each source in your controversy analysis.
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