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Contents 1 In-Class Activities: 6 November 2 Homework due November 8 3 In-Class Activities: 8 November 4 Homework due 13 November

In-Class Activities: 6 November

• Turn in Civic Letter rewrites/portfolios.
• Turn in ten new annotations.
• All ok with Grammar Matters?
• View Larsen Case: Lance Larsen vs Hawaiian Kingdom. World Court Proceedings, Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, Netherlands.

Homework due November 8

1) Blog (Wordpress) : what new questions have you come up with regarding your research topic? Explain some of the implications of recognizing these questions in relation to your topic. You should be defining/refining The Question about your topic that will give it interest and knowledge value. Category: Babel for COM375

2) Read Steph's post in Reflexivity, Here We Go.... What dilemmas do you recognize in this exchange? Your responses should be posted as a Reply to a different post: validity, credibility, and other problems with communication. Please be sure you are logged in through your own Wordpress Weblog before you submit the Reply (for proper credit!)

a) Please respond in general.

b) Can you make any parallels with your own research topics?

Then, more specifically:

c) How can you determine what/who is a credible resource?

d) How will you address these matters with your own research (annotated bibliography) and eventual paper?

In-Class Activities: 8 November

• Please sit near the people suggested as research collaborators.

Steph! Where are the annotation guidelines?!

• Login in to your Wordpress Weblog, then go to Steph's post, read, think (!), and reply: “we are all researching to fight for something” ~ redsoxfan218.
• First set of annotations - gaps (gasp!) and how to fill them. (You need your textbook for this!)

Working with the Table of Contents. Skimming. (Remember how to pre-read?)

• Revisit "The Reading of 'Reading'" quiz. Are you responding to or otherwise integrating the feedback/questions from Steph?
• Student strike next Thursday, November 15. History of bargaining is available at the UMass Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) website. Note: October 11 action, (fyi - I was there). Let's critique the flyer: could the write-up have been done to better effect?
• Deal with various messages at Steph's talk page.
• ElR6 and Jwanamak's wikiteam work.

Homework due 13 November

10 more new sources. At least three of these must be from the course text! Begin drafting your annotations:

1. One paragraph of Argument Summary (a concise description of the author's rhetorical situation)
2. Second paragraph of Argument Analysis (a detailed statement concerning how this source will be used in your argument)

NOTE: November 15, Library Annotations due as a subpage of your User Page in the Course Wiki