MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Let's pick up with this paragraph field guide and reconsider the counting strategy:  you can USE this in a document as well as paragraphs.  

Friday science-culture note: Read this short Wikipedia stub about Jennifer Lopex and a special mite. And, now a song parody! Major extra credit for a science song parody using the mite......

Counting, combined with metadiscourse, is really powerful to thread cognition for readers.  Sample phrases YOU CAN USE:

Having noted essential definitions to understand the findings of Mazela and Chimbley, let's turn now to their first point.

These brief, working definitions set the stage for Mazela and Chimbley's work on ammonia fixation in water systems.  Let's turn to their first point concerning ammonia deposition rates.

In addition to the field method described here, a second method innovation is worth our attention.

Next, let's look at the distribution analysis of Kim.

A third point useful for clinical trials concerns their discussion of biomarkers.

Finally, immunologists will be particularly intrigued by the array of IGG markers seen in the control patient group.

We will use Monday's post to reflect on paragraph, arranging them, and using content particularly in the first three paragraphs within your stem/cognitive wedge of your fruit shape.

I am playing catch up with about 12 students who still own me things.  I will, early today, post Friday's ER Writing Task.  You will work with material you posted for last week's ER Task, refined by what your peer consultations show.  We will add these:

1. Use one or two of the seven strategies to try out for a hook opening;
2. Refine your ethos paragraph 
3. NEWISH! List the definitions/description you will provide before turning to the three or four main body points.
   1. Try to divide into categories of main and supporting actors.  This metaphor, where the definitions are characters, fits with the power of narrative structures.
   2. Here is an example from my work: Poultry production on the Delmarva Peninsula is a economic engine for these coastal, rural parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.  (and) Poultry litter, which is a combination of excrement, bedding, food, and feathers, contains high amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus, which is used as a field fertilizer.  However, the high water table and long coastline mean that N and P enter the water at amounts sufficient to degrade water quality.  Therefore, environmental scientists work with poultry farmers to reduce N and P in their chicken production.
      1. Main characters (other than people)= broiler chickens, litter, N, and P.
      2. Supporting characters: water table, long coastline, microbes in the water, especially algae, dead zone.
4. Preview: how are your points going?  Are you an elongated lemon or pear shape?  This means are you presenting four body paragraphs?
5. Preview: You might want to use one of the sevens strategies to conclude.  Can you combine with an application?  This also if you are a lemon or pear in this closing of your piece. Many applications?  Likely you close describing several, making your document a pear.
6. Next week?  We focus on analysis including statistics, numbers-logos, etc.

New week you must also chose to board the early train (to ATLANTA) if you plan to complete this assignment and turn in for a grade in the first part of finals/edd of class OR you board the later train (to BOULDER) if you plan to wrap up closer to the end of finals.