April 8

Today, we wrote into the day by answering these two questions:

1. Why shouldn't you use second person (you, yours) in academic writing?
2. Why should you write formally in academic writing?

Then, we got into our inquiry groups and discussed specifics of how to turn the dialogue into an academic piece.  We came up with the following:

• Remove play structure (Name:, stage directions, setting)
• Paraphrase and use the name as inline citation
• Use third person
• Use first person when describing personal experiences or explaining your opinion at the end
• Group similar ideas together
• Group by ideas rather than by sources
• Take out words indication conversation (well, I think, ya know); make this a paraphrase or quote.
• Explain how quotes explore/connect to/answer your inquiry question.
• Dialogue becomes supporting details.
• Include a works cited page/footnotes
• Analyze the quotes more
• Maybe include a thesis

Finally, in our inquiry groups, we read the Swales piece, talked about how to introduce our academic pieces and had individual work time.  In the last ten minutes of class, Megan handed out and explained the current grades.

Homework:

• On your blog, respond to the four questions in your email about Megan's comments on your Annotated Bibliography.
• Post your first draft of Part 2 to your blog.
• Bring hard copies of Part 2 for your inquiry group to workshop on Wednesday.