Today students shared their fast drafts. We then completed the in-text citation exercises together. Thanks Daniel (8-8:50) for bringing your book to class (smile).

I noticed when we got to number eight, which looked at quoting a citation in the text, that I forgot to share with students the rule for such. We spoke about quoting a quote, but not the specifics of how to cite this in-text or in the Works Cited reference. See page 488:23.

Also when using words as words, writers can set off the "word" with quotation marks. In Essay 1, the word would be perhaps "rebel" (Hacker 328: 37d).

For Tuesday, October 22, review these sections in Rules and in They Say:

Hacker: 50-52. Complete exercises 4-1 (52). Read 53-68; 70-73; 76-83.

They Say chapters: 5 (76:2); 6 (91:2); 7 (101:2); 8 (120:2).  We will work individually on this either Wednesday or Thursday.

Monday the abstracts are due Thursday, October 24. If there are questions ask them Wednesday (smile). There is a handout and a link to the handout posted earlier with the assignment. If anyone missed the assignment handout, ask me for a copy. An abstract is a brief summary of the key ideas in the essay. It outlines the argument you present in the writing.