Copyright Controversy

 We watch one person's take on a controversy surrounding copyright:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4


Groups answer questions -- write the answers in your daybooks.


I hand out the assignment sheet for last project with feedback.

What about credible sources?

Open this prezi and use it to fill out the handout:

https://prezi.com/rtodm5yfbmhn/using-the-craap-test/

Homework:

1. Fill a page in your daybook with the prewrite where you explore which controversy related to Intellectual Property you will write about. 

2. Finish the prezi handout.

3. Daybooks are due Tuesday of next week. (There is no class Monday.) 

Plagiarism Outside of School

Define plagiarism in your own words.

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Your response? Fair? Not fair?

Helene

2. Why so different? Is there a problem here?

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the "right" outcome?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft or not ? Who owns what?

If the courts are in charge...

5. What's your ruling?

Do your pictures belong to you?

6. Would you mind if someone sells your pictures?

Power Hour?

7. How much would you spend to fight that fight?

Homework: 

1. In your daybook: Using Wikipedia or other sources, explain what "intellectual property" is, and explain the difference between a copyright, a patent and a trademark.

2. Now look up the Creative Commons license.  
Explain how this licensing is different from those in #1.
 

Finalizing Your Summary/ Response

https://plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu/tutorial/exercises/summary.cfm


2. Quiz over paraphrasing.




Now let's look at your Turnitin results.

Tomorrow your final version of this paper is due.

Draft 2 Due for Summary/ Response

I return papers.

You read drafts.

We do a Works Cited page for an article found in a book.

You upload your draft to Turnitin in Moodle.

Homework:

1. Read pages 483-489 in the text. 

2. Be working on the final version of your summary/ response, due
Wednesday. 

Summary/ Response Draft Due

You read drafts.

If you did not bring a draft, read and give feedback on Kate's draft.

Then read pages 40-41 in your book and answer the questions on the board in your daybook.

Remember coordination and subordination? Review past worksheets, and then go to this link:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz2.htm

Write out sentences for 1-7 in your daybook. You may look at the "answers," but I expect you to come up with variations, that DO use commas correctly.

Homework:

1. Finish any of the above.

2. Create Draft #2 of your summary/ response paper. It is due Monday August 28.

Getting Ready to Write the Longer Summary/ Response

Read pages 480-483.

We practice:

https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=punctuating-quotations-dialogue



Homework:

1. Your first draft of the longer Summary/ Response is due tomorrow.

More about Summary/ Response

Hand in the final version of your summary/ response about "Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production."

Words?     Longest      Shortest         oldest quote (word?)      biggest change over time?
 
How books get made:  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-a-book-manuscript/536982/ 

Worksheet....

Turn in daybooks.

Homework:

1. Finish the worksheet.

2. Your first draft of this paper is going to be due Thursday.

Summary/ Response on Wikipedia Due

Print 2 copies of the final version of your Summary/ Response of the Wikipedia article.

We analyze your essays for the key elements of summary/ response.

Homework:

1. Your reading log for the article you have chosen to write about is due tomorrow.

2. Daybooks will be turned in for check #3 tomorrow.

Practicing Summary/ Response

I hand out the prompt.

Use your book and notes to help you write a summary/ response essay about "Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production" by Danah Boyd.

Homework:

1. You may take this essay and revise it. It is due Monday at the beginning of class.

2. Here is a piece of writing about viewing a total eclipse: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/.   I recommend it!

3. Read the article you chose from the assignment sheet.

4. Begin work on the reading log for your article. It needs to be done Tuesday August 22 when I collect the daybooks for check #3.

Key Elements of Summary/ Response

You work on a quiz about the reading.

We discuss Key Elements of summary/ response.

You get the assignment sheet for Summary/Response with Feedback.

Tomorrow you will write, during class, a summary/ response about the Wikipedia article.

Homework:

1. Review the Wikipedia article, and choose the article you'll write your next paper about.

Getting Ready to do Summary/ Response

Groups work to answer questions about the reading, "Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production."

Then we look at pages 33-39 in the text.

Homework:

1. Finish reading and taking notes over pages 33-39 in the textbook. (Write down all the headings, indenting to show the relationship between them, and summarize the information under each heading.)

2. Add a word from the OED.

Summary/ Response

I return graded papers.

We look at writing summaries, and you practice.

What about response?

We discuss how to keep a reading log, and you copy one into your daybook.

Then you begin writing a reading log for the Wikipedia reading.

Homework:

1. Complete the reading log in your daybook for "Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production."

2. Remember to add a word from the OED to your vocabulary section. Today will be your second word, or third counting "punk."

Reading

We discuss how to become better readers.


Homework:

1. Read "Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production" pages 765-770 of the Norton Field Guide.

2. Use some of the suggestions we have discussed. You MAY write (using pencil) in your book. If you wish to print out a copy to annotate, this is a link to a PDF of the book : http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf  You will need to print ONLY pages 201-206 of the PDF.

3. Your purpose for reading this assignment is to prepare for having to write about it during class on Monday. Any notes you make can be used during class. If you make notes on paper, do it in your daybook. 

Spelling, Words, and Reading

We finish about the English language (see yesterday).

Crowd sourcing examples? mPING, from Scientific American.

We watch this video....then look at the OED (The Hub Menu > Library > under Databases A-Z). Punk, anyone?

A word a day starting tomorrow....Choose a word, look it up in the OED. In the vocab. section of your daybook write:
1. the word
2. its oldest meaning
3. one quote from the OED's list, and the year of the quote
4. the most common modern meaning of this word


We look into Chapter 2 of the text -- Reading in Academic Context.

Homework:

1. Read pages 10-15 and take notes in your daybook by writing down headings and a short summary of the information under each heading.

Works Cited, Again

EasyBib is working well. Do sign in... I demonstrate.

Then, a change of topic:  Why is English so hard to spell?

http://prezi.com/hhict8qqxkvp/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Turn in your daybooks.

Homework:

1. Final version of your Kickstarter on Paper is due. Have it printed and ready to hand in at 3:10 at the latest.

Draft #2 of KS on Paper Due

You look at design principles in this blog: http://blog.megafounder.com/blog/write-engaging-crowdfunding-campaign/

Then you get feedback about your draft.

Homework:

1. Continue finishing your KS on paper. The final version is due Wednesday.

2. Daybooks are due tomorrow.

Kickstarters on Paper -- Drafts Due

Today you get feedback about your draft.

Homework:

1. Read Ch. 55 in the textbook.

2. In your daybook, copy down the headings starting with "Some Basic Principles of Design"(p. 598) and ending with "Evaluating a Design"(p. 606). Indent the headings as you copy them down, and summarize the main point of each section in your own words.


3. Draft #2 is due.

Persuasive Kickstarters

We discuss how you persuade people....


And how about Kickstarters and persuasion?

 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/05/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-the-illusion-of-products-can-mislead-customers-about-the-realities-of-business/

This caused me to follow the link about the T-shirt. Which brought me back to Kickstarter.


Homework:

1. The first draft of your Kickstarter on paper is due at the beginning of class tomorrow. You should have chosen your template and have information filled in for several of the key elements. If you're not sure about a title, for instance, just choose a random one that you know you'll change later.

Papers Due and Sentence Practice

You hand in your Kickstarter Rhetorical Analysis papers.

We talk some more about coordination and subordination.

Then I hand out the assignment sheet for the Kickstarter on Paper assignment.

Homework:

1. Fill a page in your daybook with brainstorming about your Kickstarter on Paper.

2. Spend some time looking at Word templates to use for your layout.