July 22. 2014

I learn by writing what I study so more exam notes.

The three parts of MLA citation format
In text citaiton
the purpose of in text citations in MLS format is to help your reader find the correct reference int the works cited list 
Endnotes
MLA style papers may contain notes that allow you to comment on your source material, give references to other relevant sources or provide addition comments
Works cited list
inclusdes all cources you cite in your paper

double space header the title and all the text

centered title

books in print
author names. book title. place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Medium of Publication
Magazine
Author names. "Title of Article." Magazine Name day mo year: page number. medium of publication
newspaper
author names. "title of article." newspaper name day mo year, edidtion: page number. med of pub
web site sources
author name. "title of web page." title of web site. name on inst or corp site prov. dat of pub, reve, or update. med of pub, date of access

finding a topice
deciding on a purpose and audience
deciding on a topic
narrowing the topic
formulating a research question
formulating a thesis
primary sources
words written or spoken, surveys studies, or intervies, any creative works by the original author, accounts of events by people who were present
seconday sources
news articles
reviews
biographies
documentaries
encyclo entries
other material interpreted

searching librairies and library database
library databases and subscription services
using web resources
itnernet search strategies
serarch engines
metasearch engines
using direcotries
thinking creatively of ways to search
online e books
magazines journals and news media
gov and pub info
online media images art and photo
blogs
firsthand res interviews
surveys

July 21 2014

Exam notes:

prent hall ref gd pgs 1-24

The rhetorical triangle:  topic, writer, audience.

purpose
summarizing, defining, analyzing, persuading, reporting, evaluating, discussing or examining, interpreting, exploring

medium which it will appear

planning researching organizing and outlining drafting collaborating revising editing and proofreading

who, what, when, where, how, and why

types of evidence

divide and conquer

these statement is a main idea or subject of your paper
add qualifying statements

hoc's: purpose thesis audience orginization developement

rubrics

DBR: demonstrates understanding of question, expands discussion, connections to personal understanding, quality and frequency of writing

Posting to a classroom DBR
Consider idea
Described an interesig idea
ask the group a question
disagree
discuss a related issue
describe how you have applied the course concepts
share a related experience
comment on others questions
ask other students questions

DBR rubric highest level:
Response reflects:

an awareness of personal thinking
an openess to adopting alternative perspectvives
the ability to analyze differing perspectives
ability to construct support
an effective interpretation of info
an effective synthesis of info

how to write a readers response

What does text have to do w/u

how much does text agree or clash w/ view of world and right wrong

how did you learn views and opinions challagned or changed

does it address things that are important to your family etc.

positive critique

MLA format

Modern language association

parenthetical ref's authors last name w/pg# at end of sentence and before period, plaace after long quot's which are indeted one inch from left are placed after the sent and after period.

works cited at end of paper  use full names f/l and mid init of auth

 capatilize all major words in bood and periodical titlle, titles in italics, enclose article and chapt titles

give full pub info alphabitized by authors last name

in text citations

notes

works cited list

how to email a professor

how to survivie an online class

to follow directions

youll thank me laters

freewriting

how to mark a book

bird by bird

king on writing

be cool to the pizza dude

always go to the funeral 

leaving identity issues to other folks

a grown up barbie

shitty first drafts

considering the audience 

how to say nothing in 50 words

the makers eye

who is driving

wrtiting a paper?

8 more resarch tips

how to write a college paper

snoops devil dog

no compromise

building a mystery

What is a thesis

website evaluation checklist

                                                  sections 4-8 of prentice hall ref gde

11  comma splices and fused sentences are puncuation problems in comp sent there are three patterns for commas and semicolons in compounds sentences

a. ind clause and ind clause

                     but

                     for

                    nor

                     or

                     so 

                    yet

b. ind clause; ind clause

c. ind clause however ind clause

                     therefore

                     moreover

                     consequently etc.

commas in compound sentences: use a comma when you join two indpdnt clauses

seven connectors: for, and, nor, but , or, yet, so

 don't put commas before every and in your sentence

if you dont use any connecting words youll need a semicolon

the comma splice is a punc error that can occur in one of two ways pg 118

fused or run on sentences is a punc error that occurs when there is no puncuation between ind clauses clauses are fused

12  subject verb agreement occurs when the subject and verb ending agree in number and person

 singular and plural subjects 

buried subjects

compund subjects

or and either/or in subjects

clauses and phrases as subjects

indefinites s subjects

collective nouns and amounts as subjects

plural words as subjects

titles comp names words and quotes as subs

linking verbes

there is/are here is/are and it

who which that and one of as subjects

13  sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence

unintentional fragments

intentional fragments

14   dangling modifier is a word or word group that refers to a word or phrase that has not been clearly statedin the sent. when an introd phrase does not name the doer of the action the phrase then refers to the subject of ind clause that follws

15   parallel structures involves using the same grammatical form or sturcture for equal ideas in a list or in comparison.  the balance of equal elements in sent helps show the realtinshp betw ideas. often the equal elem repeat words r sound.

16   consistency   ( avoiding shifts)

consistency in writing using the same pronoun person and number, verbe tense, tone, voice, and inderect or direct form of discourse.

17  faulty predication occurs when the subject and the rest of the clause (the predicate) don't make sense

18  coordination and subordination   when an independent cluse is added to another ind clause to from a sent, both clauses are desc as coord 

19 sentnece clarity

old new info

posit instd of neg statmnts

avoid dble neg

using verbs inst of nouns

making the intend sub the sent subj

using active instead of passive

20 transtitions

pronouns 

transitional words and phrases

transtitions in and between prag

21  sentence variety

combining sent

adding words

changing words phras clauses

22  verbs

verb phrases

verb forms

past tense

future stense

irregular verbs

verb voice tells whether the verb is int the active or passive voice

verb mood tells whether it expresses a fact or opinion

23  nouns and pronouns

singular plural and collective

nound endings

pronouns take the place of a noun

personal pronouns

demo pronouns

relative pronouns

interrogative pronouns

indefinite pronouns

 possesive pronouns

reflexive pronouns

reciprical pronouns

24  pronoun case refers to the form of the pronound needed in a sentence

subject case

object case

possesive case

pronouns in compound construction

pronoun reference is the relationship between the pronound and the nound antecedent for which it is substituting

pronound number

compound subjects

who/which/that

indefinite words

indefinte pronouns

25   adjectives andadverbs describe or add information about other words in a sentence  adjectives modify nouns and prnouns          adverbs modify verbs, adj, and other adverbs

the articles a/an/the precede noouns.

comparisons

26   prepositions

commong prepositions

idiomatic prepostiitions

other prepositions,, among, between, compared to compred with could have different from off should have

27   subjects       the subject of a sentence is the word or words that indicate who or what is doing the action of active verbs

28   phrases         a phrase is a group of related words w/o a subject and complete ver

29 clauses      a clause is a group of related words that has both a subject and a complete verb.   a sentence can have one or more clauses

ind clauses

dependent clauses

adj clauses

adv clauses

30 essential and non essential clauses and phrases     an essential clause or phrase appears after a noun and is essential to complete the meaning of the sentence    an essential clause or phrase cannot be moved to another sent or omitted bacuse of the meaning fo the sent would chagne

31 sentences    a sentence is a group of words that has at least one ind clause and expresses a relatively complete thought.

32 style versus grammar

33 general and specific language

34 glosaary of usage pg 222

35 conciseness and wordiness

36 passive verus active voice

37 unecessary and innaprop language    cliches are overused expressions that no longer communicate effectively

38  appropiate language   standard english

39 nonsexist language  it is wise to avoid offending reader by using language that seems to favor one sex over the other

40 commas

commas in compound sentences

commas after intro words phrases and clauses

commas w/ essen and nonessen words phra and clau

commas in a series or list

commas w/dates adresses geographical names and numbers.

uneccassary commas

41  apostrophes with possesives

try this

the day's effort = the effort of the day

first wirte the word

then write the plural

then add the possesive apostrophe marker

thus everything to the left of the apostrophe is the word and its plural if needed.

is the first word descriptive word rather than the owner?

 42 semicolon is a stronger puncuation mark than a comma, is almost like a period

semiclns in comp sent

seme in a series

seme w/ quot marks

unnecassry semi

43 colons   the colon is used to call attention to words that follow it

44 quotation marks with direct quotations of prose poetry and dialouge

45 hyphens to indicate that part of a word  appears on the next line

to form comp words

to join word units

to join prefices suff and letters to a word

46 end puncuation 

periods

quest mark

exclamation point

47 other punc

dashes

slashes

parenthesis 

brackets

ellipsis... (omitted words)

                                                           reasearch tab of prentice hall ref gd

61  finding a topice

62   choosing a primaary  and secondary source

63 searching libraries and library databases

64  using web resources

65 conducting firsthand research

66 evaluating sources

67 collecting information

68   using sources and avoiding plagiarism

           i hope this note taking isnt plagiarism

69    writing the research paper

July 20, 2014

When my family and I went to Lake Wapapello in south east Missouri we had the best time. The first day we rented a boat and spent the day fishing, we didn't catch much but it sure was fun. The girls still remember everything we did and what fun they had.  There was a pool there and at night no one was in it but us, we played pool volley ball.  The cabins had kitchens with everything we needed so we didn't have to spend a ton of money on going out to dinner. The bedrooms were pretty tiny but we didn't care, we were at the lake!  My daughter's didn't mind putting worms on the hooks at all when we went fishing, this surprised me. They did have a nice restaurant there that we met my husband's family and had a really nice dinner. This had been my first time staying in a cabin at the lake and I would go again in a split second.  There were fireworks the next night and they were beautiful. When they went off they would reflect off of the lake and made for an awesome sight. There was a grill there and my husband cooked the tiny little fish that my daughter's caught, they were so proud that they caught fish for our dinner, we had a lot of side dishes that night. I would love to go back again some day now that they are older, maybe we could catch some bigger fish this time for dinner.

July 19, 2014

We had a bonfire in our backyard tonight.  It was the first time that we did that and we have lived in this house for 15 years.  It was really nice.  Why haven't we done this before now?  Silly how you appreciate something so much that is so simple.  Sitting by a crackling fire roasting hot dogs and talking and laughing with your family makes for a very nice evening.  No cell phones, no video games, no computers, just us and the fire. While looking at the back of my house, I really became very thankful for it and was thinking how nice it really is.  It's not the biggest or the best but it is really nice to have my own home. I am so very blessed and grateful for all that God has brought into my life.  My oldest daughter is coming home tomorrow and I am so happy!!!  Yeah!!! I have missed her dearly but I fear she may not be living at home much longer.  She has found someone that she really cares about but he lives in Oklahoma.  You can do a long distance relationship for only so long.  I have personal experience with that very thing.  When I met my husband he lived 250 miles away and that was really hard to be that far away from him.  But who knows if this is the one, she is still very young.  I want her to be happy but I want her to make a good choice.  I can't live her life for her but I can guide her and support her the best way that I know how. School starts pretty soon for my youngest daughter, she will be in 7th grade.  I can't believe how fast she has grown up.  She will be in band camp next week at her school and she is not looking forward to getting up early.  She will also be cheer leading this year, something tells me I am going to be very busy with parades and games. 

Assignment 7.6-Fluency Journal/Blog Reflection

My blogging successes have been that I have been able to do this everyday with a different subject every day.  Coming up with a new blog everyday is quite taxing on the brain.
 The challenges have been to keep my blogs interesting and just how personal should they be?  As Ms. A. said you don't want to invade your own privacy.
 I liked how it felt like therapy sometimes.  Just getting out what you don't talk about to a lot of people, because it's too sad or frustrating. The letter to my dad was very hard, but I wanted to do it, especially after reading Joshua's letter to his friends.
I hated trying to keep it fresh every day.  After a long day at work it was hard some days to sit down at the computer and compose a blog out of thin air.  Just who looks at these blogs anyway?  What makes a blog successful?
As a writer I have learned to not include so many useless words that don't make sense or clog up the sentence. I found myself using the word just a lot, and I have stopped doing that as much as possible. I have learned that after researching what I am talking about makes it easier to write about it. I don't think that I have gotten better and what I mean by that is you either have the talent to write really good and interesting blogs or books or essay's or you don't.  I don't possess that type of writing ability, as hard as I tried to write with flair, the harder it became. My vocabulary is too limited and I am working on that with apps and internet searches.
This was the first time that I blogged and the process of creating the initial profile and setting up the page was pretty easy for not knowing what I was doing.  I can see how someone could create a business with a blog, there are many people that have made a career out of it, I don't think I am that creative but what a great business to have.  You could work from literally anywhere.

July 18, 2014

In the last days of my dad's life he had to go to a lot of doctor's appointments and I took him to all of them.  On one trip to the doctor he divulged some personal information that to this day I  can not figure out why he thought I needed to know this, while driving to one of his appointments it was really quiet in the car and my dad said, "You know what?", and without thinking too much about it I said, "What?, and he said, "I am wearing a big ole diaper."  What do you say to that?  Did he need me to know this for some reason?  Why did I need to know that he had become incontinent?  In my entire life time, he never revealed anything personal to me.  Why that?  Soon after that he had to have a surgery on his neck, he was losing the ability to walk.  He barely made it through the surgery and he ended up in the ICU for a long time.  When he was being discharged we were given the option of taking him home or to put him in a home. He told us to never put him in a home so we honored that request. Upon discharge I was given instruction on how to take care of him.  How to give him shots for his diabetes, how to check his blood sugar, how to work the feeding machine that he was hooked up to and how to get him in and out of bed and lots of other things.  I was completely overwhelmed with crushing his medicine every day to put in his tube and checking his sugar and helping him out of bed and everything else that I had to do at home.  Why did I think that I could do this?  One time while I was transferring him out of his bed into his wheelchair and the transport sling tipped over and he ended up in the floor.  That was the hardest moment in my life.  I dropped my dad!  For the longest time I kicked myself over it.  Then one day after he had passed away, I was at a friends house telling her that story and I laughed until I cried.  The whole ordeal seemed hysterical when I explained it to someone else. Funny how that works. 

July 17, 2014

Free writing excercise.
This has been an exhausting week.  I am so ready to sleep.  I have one more day until the weekend.  My youngest daughter got her first babysitting job this week.  I am so proud of her.  She has worked so hard to get this.  First she attended a babysitting class at Cox South, then she made and printer flyers to hang around town, then she made and passed out her own business cards.  All of that work paid off and a lady here in town gave here a job babysitting and she wants her to take care of their pets while they are gone for the weekend.  She is only twelve and already has her own business.  My oldest daughter has been in Oklahoma with here friend and her friends family.  They live at the lake and she has had the best time.  I miss her dearly and can't wait for her to be home.  Work has been so busy this week and I've been working late.  I need to clean my house so bad.  My husband has offered to help with all of that this weekend.  I love him. I need to do laundry too. I like to do laundry. I can think and plan and clear my head in the laundry while folding clothes. I like to vacuum too.  I painted the inside of my entire house a few years ago and some of the places on my walls need painting again. That is a lot of hard work.  I have lost 30 pounds since April, Yeah!!!!  I need to loose 90 more, the hard work will be worth it, it is truly the best thing I can do for my health.  I a pretty healthy, I just need to get this weight off.   Done.