Wednesday, August 7th--6 pm

Greetings:

A few things about Essay 3 requirements:

1. A Works Cited page IS required for Essay 3. At a minimum, you must have Season One listed. If you utilize other seasons, you need to note those as well. And of course, if you utilize any critic reviews, etc., you will also need to document those.

2. Here is how you cite a TV series on your Works Cited page.

Breaking Bad. Season 1. AMC. 2008. Television.

3. You MUST refer to the show at least ONCE in your essay.

4. You do not need to utilize in text citations to indicate what episode you are referencing. If you use any support from OTHER seasons, you do need to at least mention that the event is from a different season than season 1.

ALSO,
I have read through all the Musings on Immigration and have prepared the material for our group exercise tomorrow. I wanted to address a question that one student posed on his or her Musings. It might be a question other students wondered about as well. The question was:

"Anyone who put the minimalist of efforts into this is going to display obvious writing quirks unique to them that most likely appeared in their other writings for this class. Why is this "anonymous"?"

My reply is this:

It is true that as an instructor I can sometimes determine who the writer is based on previous writings I have read from the student. However, it is really not important if I can "recognize" the student's rhetoric. What IS important is that the student feels safe and comfortable enough to express his or her opinion without other students knowing the student's identity. And interestingly enough, I do not know the identity of the student that asked this question. In fact, I honestly only recognized FOR CERTAIN two of the sixty students who submitted. :)

See you tomorrow.