MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Google Meet link for the 9+10 sections.

If you want to think ahead, consider what hot beverage cup is greener:  styrofoam (plastic) or paper?  Spend ten minutes a day or so, reading on the web and looking for authorativie sources.  Hint: that paper choice?  Not as green as you have been lead to think.  Also, look up the efficiency of paper recycling, generally. Also, is styrofoam a recyclable plastic?

By popular request, we will hold Tuesday night "Office Hours in the Sky" before the final "Resubmit"is due for a grade.  9-10.ish This date is somewhat flexible, as I keep saying.  BE ON TIME for each other in your posting of drafts and then responding to others.  For me?  More flexible. However, staying roughly on time makes the semester easier for everyone.

Here are some additional discussion material on thinking about referral links, bookending, curating courtesy, and sentencing citation: Next up?  Signal phrases and bookending in your formal and referral citations

Why this focus? Technically, when you use a citation of either sort, the information that you cite is in the sentence where the citation occurs.  HOWEVER, people routinely use citation in sloppy ways that make the reader infer where the cited information begins and ends. DO NOT DO THIS TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.  Please.  Besides: if you use the signal phrase + bookending skills I present, you communicate that you are a careful, detailed-oriented, ethical person.  All of us need to 1) be such a person and 2) portray that personna to others, including in our writing.

Here is a question, posted at this Rasmussen University Q&A page. A student, much like you, writes:

Q. Can I use one citation at the end of a multiple sentence paragraph, or do I have to cite for every sentence?

Please read the Rasmussen U answer.  Twice.  Now, let’s talk about the style-awkward problem of citing every sentence.  You have an alternative to this; enter, the signal phrase.  What is a signal phrase?  A S I G N A L, natch. You have been writing them, to introduce your citations.  Review this short exhibit at this Butler Community College citation page.  And, because you are practicing curated citation links in your first memo, you have them in place. NOW, to be clear about when the cited information begins and ends, we pay attention to the location of these signal phrases (which, as it happens, are acts of courteous curation of information for the reader).  Let’s use lorem ipsum to look at this.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec porttitor magna nec interdum tincidunt. Morbi semper condimentum laoreet. Nam sapien leo, pellentesque quis ligula non, pulvinar tristique odio. Vestibulum lobortis iaculis lectus non faucibus. Sed quis pellentesque velit. Maecenas finibus id lectus non pulvinar. Vivamus rutrum, orci eu viverra porta, sem sapien malesuada elit, id interdum elit purus ac lectus. According to Roman orator Quintilian, Aenean ut metus diam. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Maecenas suscipit vel urna ac tempor. Aenean faucibus purus a orci volutpat gravida. Mauris pulvinar non nisl nec pharetra (Quintilian, tr by Mozafari, 2015).

Shea writes in her 2010 Hyattsville Patch article Vestibulum ullamcorper metus non luctus ornare. Duis euismod libero quis odio imperdiet tincidunt. Donec non diam vel nunc sagittis vehicula. Vivamus id est lectus. Cras congue tortor augue, ac vestibulum erat condimentum eu. According to a rhetorician Quintilian, Mauris semper dolor a nulla ornare egestas. Morbi faucibus metus ut sapien fermentum, as Shea describes sed vestibulum sapien pharetra. Donec dapibus sapien quis auctor placerat. Nam at felis justo. Vivamus et leo varius, egestas massa ac, sagittis ligula. Nunc maximus dictum nibh, ac posuere ipsum posuere nec. Nullam ut finibus arcu, ac malesuada ligula. Donec laoreet nunc eu nunc sodales, vel tempor odio mollis. (Shea, 2010)

Signal phrases also help us fold more than one citation together in a paragraph:

Shea writes about Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec porttitor magna nec interdum tincidunt. Morbi semper condimentum laoreet. Nam sapien leo, pellentesque quis ligula non, pulvinar tristique odio. Vestibulum lobortis iaculis lectus non faucibus. Sed quis pellentesque velit (Shea, 2010). Another writer who comments on stasis theory is Mozafari (post doctoral researcher at MIT) Maecenas finibus id lectus non pulvinar. Vivamus rutrum, orci eu viverra porta, sem sapien malesuada elit, id interdum elit purus ac lectus. Aenean ut metus diam (Mozafari, 2018). Indeed, they collaborated on a joint piece that was part of a conference on computers and language (ASD proceeding), where this quotation is helpful:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Maecenas suscipit vel urna ac tempor. Aenean faucibus purus a orci volutpat gravida. Mauris pulvinar non nisl nec pharetra (Shea and Mozafari ASD Conference Proceedings, 2021).

Vestibulum ullamcorper metus non luctus ornare. Duis euismod libero quis odio imperdiet tincidunt. Donec non diam vel nunc sagittis vehicula. Vivamus id est lectus. Cras congue tortor augue, ac vestibulum erat condimentum eu. 

BOTTOM LINE:  I want to see evidence in your revised rain garden memo that you can apply these craft lessons on citation.  I suggest that you use the booking with both signal phrases and curated links in the classifying paragraph and the illustrating paragraph (Consider the P.G. County Bioretention Manual). Then, use signal phrases with the Davis work in the evaluation paragraph, where formal APA citation is used for a peer reviewed article that you identify.  Then, give a curated referral ink where the reader can get to information without hitting a paywall.