Hw Into Your Words Pick Any Topic

Class,     One thing we can never get enough of is practice with library research and documentation. Let’s do more of it this week.      Select a PERSON, PLACE, or THING that you are interested in learning more about. This topic should be different from anything you have researched thus far during this course.     Using our library, locate ONE peer-reviewed article about this topic. Answer the questions below. Please number the questions, respond in complete sentences, but do not copy and paste the questions.     What is your topic?  (Examples—Michael Jackson or Paris, France) What interests you about this topic? What do you already know about this topic? (Hint: it is helpful to select topics that you already know a little something about. This helps you avoid this problem: “I didn’t know anything about my topic, so I used quotes and paraphrases for my whole essay.”) What else would you like to know about this topic? Read the entire article. Please provide a brief summary of your article. This should be in your own words. Do not copy and paste from the article, though you may include citations.  Pick one sentence from the article and put it here in either a quote or paraphrase. Please include a signal phrase and parenthetical citation. Pretend you are going to write an essay about this topic. List three topics that you would like to focus on for your thesis and body paragraphs. (Examples—three places you would like to visit in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre museum, and Père Lachaise Cemetery OR Michael Jackson’s childhood, accomplishments in music, and tragic death) This is how the article I chose would look on a Works Cited page. Use the library cite button!

Please read the instructions in each forum area carefully. Make your initial post by Wednesday, 11:55 p.m. ET. All other replies are due by Sunday, 11:55 p.m. ET.  Each initial post should be at least 250 words. Also, respond to at least TWO fellow students’ initial posts with at least 50 words each. Please do not simply compliment them on a job well done. Ask questions and/or provide thoughtful insight and continue the discussion they have started. You are also expected to reply to anyone who responds to your initial post. Remember, this is our place for our classroom discussion, so it’s important to keep the conversation going!  Label your parts for easy reading. Write in complete sentences but do not copy and paste the questions or instructions into your post. (This will not count towards your word count requirements.) Put all required parts in ONE initial post. Save your work to your desktop (or USB, cloud, etc.) first. Then copy and paste your work into the forum area using the “Paste as Plain Text” or “Paste from Word” icons. Use the “Start a New Conversation” button for your initial post. Click “Reply” to respond to fellow students’ posts. Your instructor will submit your work through Turnitin, so please ensure that your posts are completely your own work.