Your In-class Assignment for Today (04 November)

Ahmed and Jack,

Today in class, you have an assignment that will help you improve your library-based research skills.

The first thing you will do is take today's class time to find two printed resources that will help you with your research topics. Get them from EKU's library before the end of class. The two sources must be printed, but they can be in the same book. That means if Jack finds a book called "A Collection of Awesome Essays about American Movies" and it has two interesting articles in it, he can use it for both sources. Same goes for you too, Ahmed; if one book has two good sources, it counts as both of them.

After you have your two sources, make a post on the class blog (Composition Research Source) with the title of each source.

The second thing you'll need to do is go to this website and browse around. The website is called the Online Writing Lab and is published by Purdue University. It is a very, very helpful source for learning how to document your essay. For now, just read it. We are going to be learning MLA style in class.

See you soon!

Ben

The OWL at Purdue

Friends, Romans, Countrymen...

As the semester progresses, it seems to me that the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University might be particularly useful to you all. Click here to go to the website; it has information about writing college papers, including how to organize a paper and how to write in MLA and APA styles. It's all free, too.

Homework, due 01 November 2010

Hi Ahmed and Jack,

Here is your homework. It is due on Monday.

#1--write the introduction to your essay (a draft) and post it to YOUR BLOG
#2--find a book that is relevant to your essay, check it out at EKU's library
#3--write a summary of the book that is around 100 words and post it to THIS BLOG
#4--bring your library book to class on Monday


Ben

Today's Class

Ahmed and Jack,

Today in class we will be touring EKU's library (on our own). We'll meet in Java City and spend a minute or two discussing your homework, then we'll walk around the library. I'll show you where to find books and other printed sources related to your topics, good places to work, where to find help, and how to use the computer to search for library items.

Next on the list (probably for Monday) is a discussion of how to use web-based sources.


Ben