Agenda 11 9 2010
Your Descriptive Essay is to due on FRIDAY NOV. 19th. Complete a rough draft of the Descriptive Essay before the next class, and bring it to class. Be smart, submit it to Smarthinking before Nov.16th next class.
1. Attendance
- Plagiarism –
Let’s talk about plagiarism. Think about this. If you can cut and paste it, than I can too, and guess what comes up when I Google?
The challenge facing many students in writing a paper and using Internet sources, is to avoid plagiarism. The Internet lends itself to quick copy/paste jobs that plagiarize. The use of the facts, statistics, and ideas from a source without proper acknowledgement in a citation is penalized substantially in the essay. It can and will cause your paper to fail.
The use of the exact phrase or sentence from a source without quotation marks is also penalized substantially.
3. Overview of paper coming up:
The Descriptive Essay is at least 6 pages long, and uses the APA page format like the Narrative Essay, and it has at least four sections for different types of job characteristics.
You do the following different things in the Descriptive Essay :
(1) You will describe 4 - 5 types of facts and details about one career specialization ;
(2) The content will come from sources other than yourself, and so you will be doing more research than you did for the Narrative Essay;
(3) You will cite sources on the Internet in the References; and
(3) You will evaluate sources used for the Descriptive Essay inside an “annotation” below each Reference.
4. What is an annotation?
5. Labwork (activities)
