Agenda for Thursday’s class:
- Return annotated bibliography instructor drafts
- Assign times for individual conferences
- Attendance
- Discuss and compare Wonkette and Daily Kos, based on interviews we read with Ana Marie Cox and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and your observation of the sites.
- Thesis statement exercise
- Distributed HW 22 and 23
- Break
- Peer review, read-around style.
- Round 1: Read, highlight what you like, closing comment, and your name
- Round 2: Underline the thesis statement if there is one, and to test the thesis statement’s arguability, state what reasonable people who disagree with the claim might argue. If there is not a thesis statement, create one relevant to your classmate’s topic. Sign your name.
- Round 3: Asterisk the sentences that “hook” reader interest (this is often done with a statistic, a paradoxical statement, a question, a quotation, and analogy, or an anecdote). Write one additional sentence that could be used to hook reader interest (it is okay if this one is made up or a lie–we’re doing it for practice)
- Collected extra copies of HW 21 (students were asked to print two copies of the peer draft of the introductory paragraph). These will not be graded–it’s just to show me that you did the assignment and understood it.
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