Week 4, posting early to guide you in Eli Review work
WEEK 4's Office Hours in the Sky/AMA Google docs (like going to class but in an asynchornous way.). Three of three: Monday done, Wednesday done, and NOW FRIDAY.
Next week, we will work assynchronously, you largely in Eli Review on your rain garden memo. Yet, I will be "in class online in google doc every day that I call Office Hours in the Sky/AMA. I will post them starting on Monday as an follow up to this week 4 post.
Here is some content to guide our conversation today, concerning citation practices in professional contexts.
- According to Phoebe Pym, University of Peoria ornithologist, seasonal variations in songbird populations may not explain recent dips in male robin number.
- The cheery "cheeri-UP, cheeri-UP" of male robins may not announce spring in Central Illinois says new research by Dr. Pym. The University of Peoria bird specialist thinks that extreme climate variations may be responsible for fewer male robins in 2003 and 2004.
- "El Nino/L Nina cycles are now so extreme temperature-wise, that these varations may explain a drop in male robin populations in the central Mid West states," reports Phoebe Pym in a July 2005 Nature journal.
- Pym's findings are confirmed by other bird experts, including wildlife biologist Jeremy Bentham. Working with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Audubon Society, Bentham tracked songbird populations (2003-2005) and noted significant losses in 2004.
We cite to help our readers AND build our ethos. Within a few sentences around your information, be sure to give your reader a fighting chance at locating the material. Use the journalist's formula of
- who did the research
- where is the researcher located (institution)
- when did the research happen/when was the article published
- WHAT is the larger topic you write about.
Optional reading with more examples in this pedagogy training Google doc. Question for you that we will take up next week: what about links? Can these hypertext choices act as a citation?
Question also for the evaluation paragraph I mentioned that relies on Davis? We will chat about this interesting web exhibit we can use as a stand-in for a formal citation -- recall the context of the memo for our boss.
Marybeth Shea
UPDATED: FRIDAY AUDIO FILE Week 4
Here is a follow-up on Week 4 to help you synthesize what you are learning from Peer Editing/Colleaborative review in Eli.
- You now have a good idea how to arrange your details in the order of the paragraphs I gave you in an ARRANGEMENT.
- You also have a good idea about the details that need to be in the document (short memo, read under difficult conditions for boss in a high stakes meeting)
- Not all people will put in the same flourish details but you can see the basic ones. How about a metaphor:
By Lavarmsg, requests attribution - Have you thought about citation? See the patterns I give here and in the OHitS/AMA google docs. The ONLY Paragrah that needs a formal APA citation is the last paragraph, where you support the claim that rain gardens are good with information from Alan Davis. We are also using a work-around resource because getting a peer-reviewed article in this memo does not fit the boss' needs nor her platform.
- Have you thought about the paragraph lengh/volum I discussed in Wedneday's OHitS/AMA? Here is another way to think about the progression: cognitive wedge.
Go to Friday's document for more discussion - FRIDAY's OHitS/AMA
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NOTE: the images are thumbnails linked to largr images that are easier to study.
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