The lengths of the annotations can vary significantly from a couple of sentences to a couple of pages.
This sentence shows that annotation length can vary based on purpose, allowing flexibility. It reminds me to adapt the detail in each annotation to suit my needs.
Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project.
This sentence points out that annotations enhance critical thinking and aid in organizing ideas for research. It shows that an annotated bibliography is a key step in preparing arguments. I see this as essential for deepening my understanding and building a solid base for my paper.
An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation.
This sentence defines an annotation as more than just a list; it includes a summary or critique of each source. This focus on analysis helps in assessing each source’s value. It reminds me to look deeper into each source's content and relevance to my topic.
A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic.
This sentence explains that a bibliography is a collection of all the sources used in research. It encourages including various types of sources to create a well-rounded foundation. Reflecting on this, I see the value in using diverse resources for a comprehensive perspective.
By reading and responding to a variety of sources on a topic, you'll start to see what the issues are, what people are arguing about, and you'll then be able to develop your own point of view
This sentence emphasizes that engaging with diverse sources helps students recognize key issues and debates, allowing them to form their own informed perspectives.
Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project.
This sentence highlights the value of annotated bibliographies in preparing for research by encouraging deeper engagement with sources, which improves overall understanding.
The length of annotations can vary according to the type of project and the requirements of the teacher.
This sentence highlights the flexibility in annotation length, suggesting that annotations should be tailored to the specific context of a project or assignment. It implies that students should consider the expectations of their instructor and the purpose of the bibliography when determining how detailed their annotations should be.
An annotated bibliography is a bibliographic list of sources, accompanied by a summary and/or evaluation of each source
This sentence defines an annotated bibliography, emphasizing its dual function as both a list of sources and a tool for critical analysis. It sets the foundation for understanding how annotations enhance the bibliographic entries by providing insights into the relevance and quality of each source.
The task assesses students’ ability to distinguish between an article and an advertisement.
This sentence highlights the focus of the assessment, which aims to test whether students can tell the difference between genuine news articles and various forms of advertisements, a key skill in media literacy.
More than 80% of students believed that the native advertisement, identified by the words “sponsored content,” was a real news story.
This sentence reveals that most students struggle to recognize native ads as advertisements, mistaking them for real news, which suggests a need for explicit teaching on how to identify and understand "sponsored content
Teachers also need curriculum focused on developing students’ civic online reasoning.
This sentence highlights the need for educational materials that help students critically assess information online, aiming to build skills for responsible digital citizenship.
But when it comes to evaluating information that flows through social media channels, they are easily duped.
This sentence emphasizes the authors' concern that, despite their digital skills, students often fail to critically assess the information they encounter online, leaving them vulnerable to misinformation.
Narrowing your search is a crucial part of the research process.
This sentence highlights the importance of focusing your research by narrowing your topic, which helps you find more specific and relevant information for a deeper, more effective project.
First, though, you need to figure out which keywords will best suit your needs.
This sentence stresses the importance of choosing the right keywords when conducting online searches, as they help you find the most relevant information for your research.
Why can’t I just state my own view and be done with it?”
The sentence expresses a student's frustration about having to include other people's ideas before sharing their own opinion, asking why they can't just skip that and state their view directly.
Often without consciously real-izing it, accomplished writers routinely rely on a stock of estab-lished moves that are crucial for communicating sophisticated ideas.
This sentence emphasizes that skilled writers use certain techniques automatically, which help them clearly express complex ideas in their writing.
silence is often seen as the sexist “right speechof womanhood”— the sign of woman’s submission to patriarchal authority.
They see silence as woman submitting to the mens patriarchal authroity meaning they have more power in society because woman tend to stay silent in fear
To speak then when one was not spoken to was a courageous act—an act of risk and daring
Again if you did this you might invite punsihment
To make yourself heard if you were a child was to invite punishment,
Anytime you talk back to your parents or an authority figure you will be punished
You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free
This country is not free until everyone is free within the country
I know your countrymen do not agree with me here and I hear them. saying, "You exaggerate." They do not know Harlem and I do
He is talking about how people are telling him that they are exaggerating the circumstances but in fact he knows the truth of what is happening wether people are going to believe him or not
I know the conditions under which you were born for I was there. Your countrymen were not there and haven't made it yet.
Saying that maybe the fight for their rights is not over yet.
Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.
He clearly knows his bother very well, knowing what his multiple faces mean.
He say we should have studentsto translate the way they talk into standard English on a chalk board
I don't understand this because if we are all speaking the same language why would we need someone to translatse what we are saying.
Of course, the argument to teach and learn the dialects of Englishand to understand how to exploit them in effective communica-tion don’t come originally from me
I think that this is good and effective because it helps people understand the other dialects of english and how to utiize them in you writing.
the one when he say teachers of writin courses need to spenda lot of time dealin straight with writin, not only with topics of war, gen-der, race, and peace.
I agree I have found that mnay teachers like to take the focus of writing or english classes to touch on stff that can and should probably be covered in other classes rather then on writing its self.
Instead of prescribing how folks should write or speak, I say we teachlanguage descriptively
I agree we should start teaching it more descriptively instead of more prescribing it.
fearing the worst is worse than knowing the worst. You eventually start wanting the worst to happen.
This statement is so true your just fearing the worst but once it happens you just accept it yk
The conference offers Morgies refuge from a world that generally refuses to accept their account of why they suffer.
Why are we as humans are we not accepting people for having a disease that we cant cure.
For Paul, it started with a fishing trip. For Lenny, it was an addict whose knuckles were covered in sores. Dawn found pimples clustered around her swimming goggles. Kendra noticed ingrown hairs. Patricia was attacked by sand flies on a Gulf Coast beach. Sometimes the sickness starts as blisters, or lesions, or itching, or simply a terrible fog settling over the mind, over the world.
Diseases can come from anything and everywhere.
I ask Dawn what the hardest part of her disease has been. At first she replies in hesitant, general terms — “Uncertain future?
I feel like when you ask someone about the scariest thing about a fatial disease this is going to probably be the number 1 anwser
My "home" tongues are the languages I speak with my sisterd b thers with my friends.
I agree with this statement 100% you home tongues should be the one you speak at home with your family
Wild tongues can't be tamed,they can only be cut out
No matter what you do you arent going to get ride of the langauage it will still thrive
I had to "argue" with one advisor afterthe other, semester after semester, before I was allowed to makeChicano literature an area of focus.
Interesting that she wanted to focus on Chicano Lierature so much that she had to "argue" with her advisor inorder to get what she wants
Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos' need to identi-ourselves as a distinct people.
I like that Chicano's all created a language so they could distinguish themselves from other spanish speakers.
Teachers, as a result, could be more preciseand helpful when they ask students to "think," "argue," "de-scribe," or "define."
Yes if we were taught more about ti in school then it would be easier for teachers to be more hepful to us
I think that all writers, in order to write, must imagine forthemselves the privilege of being "insiders"-that is, of beingboth inside an established and powerful discourse, and of beinggranted a special right to speak.
I agree that all writers must achieve this in order to write
Writers who can successfully manipulate an audience (or, touse a less pointed language, writers who can accommodate theirmotives to their readers' expectations) are writers who can bothimagine and write from a position of privilege.
I agree with this becuase if you can make you audience believe they are in the world that you created then you are a good writer
Every time a student sits down to write for us, he has to inventthe university for the occasion-invent the university, that is, ora branch of it, like History or Anthropology or Economics orEnglish.
Great way to start the paper
Math is precise; there is only one correct answer. Whereas, for me at least, theanswers on English tests were always a judgment call, a matter of opinion and personal experience.
I agree with this statement and that its more of a matter about how you may talk and if you talk differently then the "correct" anwser is wrong.
I was made keenly aware of the different Englishes I do use
What are these differnt types of Englishs you used and how do they differ from one another.
the power of language -- the way itcan evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth
Language is a very powerful tool used in everyday life that is extremely important to society.
I am not a scholar of English or literature.
Interesting way to start off an essay instead of giving us who you are like in the next Paragraph
by taking part in a process of life that is creative and continuing, that is growth
So by taking part in speaking your truth you are growing.
the decision to build and maintain ourselves and our communities together and to recognize and solve our problems together.
Working together as a community and putting aside your differences to slove the collective problems.
Tell th~m ~bout how you're never really a whole person if you rematn stle,!tt, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and ifyou keep ignoring it, i; gets m~dder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don t speak 1t out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside
Keeping something that makes you anger inside with eventually begin to upset you from within until one day you just explode.
That we not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as our own.
Women must not hide behind the barriers that Men have put on them and let their voices be heard.
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Thank you for providing a clear example on how you would like us to address you in an email and a template to send an email.
Course Schedule (Tentative)
I like that this was included because this is an online course so it allows me to see what we are doing for that week.
Assignment Lis
I am glad a assignment list is provide because it gives me a clear view of the assignment we will be completing during the course.
TIME ELAPSED SINCEASSIGNMENT DUEGRADE REDUCTIONUP TO 24 HRS10%24-48 HRS20%48-72 HRS30%BEYOND 72 HRSNot Graded
I am glad you provided a clear grade reduction policy as most classes dont provide that in the syllabus.