DIRECTIONS: on Your Own Paper, Complete All of the Following Questions

ENGLISH 11 APE CLASSWORK: Everything’s an Argument DIRECTIONS: On your own paper, complete all of the following questions. You will complete your research source evaluations (question 15) for homework. This is due Wednesday, March 17. Bring your copies of your sources Wednesday also!

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1. Compare the reports from bloggers to those of the mainstream news. 2. What are the 11 principles to follow in evaluating print sources? 3. Compare the two magazine covers on p. 531. 4. When evaluating electronic sources, what are the five criteria you should consider? 5. Analyze the Audubon website. Determine its credibility, currency and accuracy. 6. What is the current argument regarding Google News? 7. What publishing information should you carefully keep track of with your print sources? 8. What publishing information should you carefully keep track of with your electronic sources? 9. What is a signal phrase and what is its purpose? 10. Evaluate the image on p. 540. What is misleading and how was it handled by the media? 11. When using direct quotations, what is the purpose of quotation marks, brackets, and the ellipsis? 12. How should you format a direct quotation that is more than four lines in length? 13. What is the main difference between a paraphrase and a summary? 14. When should you use visual sources in your research paper? 15. For each of your research sources, complete the following evaluations: a. Who created the site? b. What do you discover when you visit the “About” link? c. Can you verify the credibility of the author? d. Does the site credit its own sources? e. How current is the document or site? When was the website last updated? f. Does the website offer a balance point of view?

To answer questions 15, identify each source and complete the questions a – f for each one.