MLA Quiz

Guys,

Here is your MLA quiz for today's class. Go to: MLA 2009 Guide @ OWL Purdue to complete the assignment. Please write your answers on a piece of paper or type them and email them to me (benjamin.taylor@eku.edu). DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS ON THE BLOG. Do your own work--do not help each other on the quiz.

QUIZ

1) What information do you need in order to correctly reference a BOOK on your WORKS CITED page?

2) How do you organize sources on your WORKS CITED page?

3) What information goes in the HEADER of your document?

4) What information goes in the top left corner of the FIRST PAGE (only) of your document?

5) In what FONT SIZE should you write your paper?

6) Do you have to include a website's URL (example: www.blogger.com) in a reference on your WORKS CITED page?

7) What 8 points does OWL recommend you include when listing a WEBSITE on your WORKS CITED page?

8) What are PERIODICALS? List 3 examples.

About Outlines (homework for 10 November)

Ahmed and Jack,

Don't forget to update your outlines tonight, including details about each of the bullet points you showed me in class today and a sentence or two about your sources and references for the information.

Ben

Diversity Breakfast

Everyone,

Don't forget about the Diversity Breakfast (like I did in class this morning). They'll start serving food at 7:30 AM and the program starts at 8:00 AM.

ENG 102, we are all registered to attend. Remember, we'll be meeting in Keene Johnson Ballroom before 8:00 AM; the program will last until around 9:30 AM but you may leave at 8:50 AM if you need to get to another class.

EELI, Mr. Smith and Ms. Payne, I think, are taking you.

See you at the breakfast!

Ben

Creating an Outline

Everyone,

Here is a template to follow while working on your outlines. This template, which is from the St. Helen's School District in Oregon, exemplifies an outline quite well, except for Part A in the introduction. Remember what we discussed in class about creating introductions. You need to grab the reader's attention (and keep it) while providing information that both introduces your thesis and prepares the reader for the coming discussion.

University Diversity Breakfast

Eastern's Diversity Breakfast will be on Wednesday, September 22.

EELI students, Ms. Payne and Mr. Smith told me you will be attending; I am also bringing my ENG 102 class. They are going to be using this blog as well.

ENG 102 students, instead of meeting for class on 22 September, we will meet in Keene Johnson Ballroom at 7:30 AM. I have confirmed our reservation with the people who handle catering, so they know to expect us. The program lasts until 9:30 AM, but if you have a class immediately after ours, you may leave at 8:50 AM--when our class would usually dismiss.

Ben

First Sources

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University is a tremendously useful source for anyone conducting research. Check it out here: Online Writing Lab .


The OWL is updated regularly and includes information on citing in APA style, MLA style, and Chicago style. For E. E. L. I. students, you will focus on MLA citation style for this term; my ENG 102 students will use whatever citation style best suits your discipline. For example, you should cite a health-related paper with APA style because APA style acknowledges the date a piece of research was published and therefore ensures a source is not obsolete. In the humanities, you use MLA style because new sources don't make older sources (from the early 1990s) obsolete quite as quickly. Citing news and other current-events documents are different; we'll talk about them in class.


I haven't had a chance to look over this site yet, but I think it will help you get started looking for online information. It's called The Free Library . They've got newer sources and older ones; if you decide to use any of these sources in your papers, you will need to cite the website (the online version of the source); we'll discuss that in class.


Don't forget about Eastern's Library . The inter-library loan (ILLiad) is indispensable while you research, as are the multitudes of other online resources. We'll discuss online resources in class. If you do choose to use ILLiad to help you find sources, I suggest you do it early; it often takes a little over a week to get a source from one university to another. Digital files don't take terribly long, but books do. Look around, I'm sure you'll find something helpful.




Happy Researching,
Ben

Welcome

Hello students,


Here is a resource that I hope will help you as you complete your work this semester. This is a combined resource for both my ENG 102 class at E. K. U. and my Level 5 Research class in the E. E. L. I. program.


From time to time, I will post resources that will direct you to relevant research and other resources online; aside from fostering a discussion online between all of my students, my goal with this resource is to create (with your help) an information bank that will be useful to you throughout your college career and afterward.


To begin, I will post some links that everyone can use--some are scholarly, others are grammatical or linguistic in nature, but others are news, current events or otherwise interesting. Once everyone from both classes is connected, you will make your own research blogs. I'll also register you as contributors to this blog so you can make posts and comments on the Composition-Research page.


I'm really optimistic about this.




Ben