MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

UPDATED for Friday (Eve of H'ween): Good morning ( OHitS/AMA doc for Monday and Wednesday; NEW OHitS/AMA for Friday questions.  You have an ELi Review task to complete. (Friday but the halo time is over the weekend.  Take care on this cold damp weekend.  Be wise and safe Halloween nerds, please).

Also included is the MP4 discussion on signal phrases+bookending and appositives. I have two questions for about this final edit: 

• what grammar/punctuation/language use questions do you have?  You can review these links to check in yourself on these questions.  Below, I take up one technique concerning the appositive.
• signal phrases as a way to bookend, within a paragraph, what information a citation technically covers; this technique is one of your final polish-edits to this assignment (Wednesday's topic). 

Simultaneous to wrapping up this memo, assignment 2, we need to prep for November's work:  review of one research article you select.  I noted this in the syllabus.  Find a research results article published in a peer reviewed journal.  You will read, analyze, and review this piece in the manner of a journal club. We imagine that at Leaf it to Us, we share knowledge with each other across our disciplines every Friday.  We share an in-depth write up of the article after we present.  We can assume that all will read/skim the article.  However, the heavy intellectual lifting is on the presenter.  Hints on how/where to find an article:

• are you reading an article for a class now?  Select that and you learn for both classes (efficiency),
• did you read last semester for a class?  Select one of those articles (cognitive), 
• are you deeply interested in a topic and want to explore (interestingness).

Please have an article in mind by Friday.  You can ask me about the piece/suitability in this week's OHitS/AMA document get-togethers. Preview on this review's arrangement (shape) in a flow chart.

Lesson on appositives In science writing, appositives are useful ways to nest short definitions within complex prose as well as scope or hedge on material, without derailing the reader's task of looking for cognitive flow in a document. Here are some examples:

Extremophiles -- microbes that live at high temps, high pressures, or otherwise conditions once thought incompatible with life -- offer many opportunities for industrial science applications.

Aconitum species (monkshood, wolfsbane, helmet flower) are among the most poisonous known to gardeners.

Amanita muscaria, the destroying angel fungus, blooms in fall in the Washington, DC metro area.

Regeneron -- not yet approved by FDA for treatment of COVID19 -- might be available for politicians under compassionate use norms.  Bio-ethicists caution about this use of an exception typically meant for carefully described circumstances that do not reflect power or status.

I will work up a screencast (MP4) on how to think about this bunny image. Recall that you have several small but important Eil Review tasks toward submissions of this memo to me. See your ELMs calendar for the reminders