MAKE UP TEST

MSFP 261: Make-up Citation test

You must return the test to me on Wednesday, March 24th.
Please create a Works Cited page in MLA format for the following materials. (They should all be mixed up; don’t keep the books, magazine, newspapers separate). (3.5%)

Two books by single authors:
Author: Michael Lewis
Title: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Publisher: WW Norton
Date: 2010-03-22

Author: Diane Francis
Title: Who Owns Canada Now? Old Money, New Money and the Future of Canadian Business
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Date: 2008

Two magazine articles in print:
Title: As Brazil Rises, Mexico Tries to Amp Up Its Own Clout
Author: Tim Pagett
Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 20, 2010
Pages: 6-9

Title: To Cut Pasta Traditionally, Play the Chittarra
Author: Hank Shaw
Magazine: The Atlantic Monthly
Date: March 22, 2010
Pages: 17-18


Two online newspaper articles:
Title: How I was humiliated by a grade-school chess prodigy
Author: Cathal Kelly
Newspaper: The Toronto Star
Date: March 22nd, 2010
URL: http://www.thestar.com/living/article/783269--how-i-was-humiliated-by-a-grade-school-chess-prodigy?bn=1


Title: Conservative MP apologizes for tequila tantrum
Author: Gloria Galloway
Newspaper: The Globe and Mail
Date: March 22nd, 2010
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservative-mp-apologizes-for-tequila-tantrum/article1506581/


Please PARAPHRASE the following paragraph: (1.5%)
The key to building a global economy that can sustain economic progress is the creation of an honest market, one that tells the ecological truth. The market is an incredible institution, allocating resources with an efficiency that no central planning body can match. It easily balances supply and demand, and it sets prices that readily reflect both scarcity and abundance. The market does, however, have some fundamental weaknesses. It does not incorporate into prices the indirect costs of providing goods or services into prices, it does not value nature’s services properly, and it does not respect the sustainable-yield thresholds of natural systems. It also favors the near term over the long term, showing little concern for future generations. Throughout most of recorded history, the indirect costs of economic activity were so small that they were rarely an issue and, even then, only at the local level. But with the sevenfold global economic expansion since 1950, the failure to address these market shortcomings and the irrational economic distortions they create could be fatal.

From Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Lester R. Brown. http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/books/pb2/pb2ch12_intro; Earth Policy Institute.

RESEARCH FOR RESEARCH PAPER

RESEARCH PAPER SCHEDULE:
When you create a research paper you should take the following steps. DO NOT leave it until the last minute; it will be impossible.
1. Choose topic.
2. Create reading list
3. Read and take notes: make sure you get COMPLETE citation information for
everything you read.
4. Decide on thesis.
5. Plan
6. Write paper
7. Create works cited page

March 17th-March 31st: STEPS 1, 2 and 3. (March 19th-April 2nd for Friday Class)
Over the next two weeks you must choose your research topic; create a reading list and read as much of it as you can.
March 31st-April 7th (Friday Class: April 2nd-April 9th) STEPS 4 and 5: Copy of Plan and Reading List due April 7th (5%)
April 7th-April 14th (Friday Class: April 9th-April 16th): STEPS 6 and 7: PAPER is DUE APRIL 14th/16th (15%)
NO EXTENSIONS
This paper is worth 20% of your overall mark; you have been given fair warning of the schedule and I will not give an extension without a very good reason.
Please choose one of the following topics for your paper:
1. Viral marketing and online communities.
2. A Canadian photographer or artist.
3. A Canadian film maker.
4. The development of Canadian design.
5. Gaming and violence.
6. The role of the media in political change.
7. Ethics and the media in Canada.
8. SUGGEST A TOPIC TO ME: it must be Media related, and I must approve it.




RESEARCH PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
Reading List: At least SIX essays, articles or books from LEGITIMATE sources (NOT Wikipedia). Remember that some of this material may be background information; not everything has to be exactly on your topic.

Length: 750-1000 words.

Format: double-spaced 12 pt font; cover sheet with your name and name of course and my name; STAPLED. Citations in MLA format (with “Works Cited” page, as per MLA).

DUE DATES: Reading list and plan April 7th (or 9th for Friday class)
Final paper April 14th (or 16th for Friday class).

Grading: Plan and Reading List 5%
Final Essay 15%; broken down as follows:
Clarity of Thesis 5%
Research 15%
Citations/Quotations/Format 5%
Structure 25%
Grammar 25%
Argument/Style 25%

REVEIW ASSIGNMENT (2--this is NOT the analysis)

Due next week (March 24th and 26th):
500-7000 word review of a book, magazine, newspaper, game, tv season (or something else, media related, NOT a movie, and only with my permission). The thing your review should have been produced within the last two years.

Follow the basic structure we talked about in class; if you were not in class . . . ask one of your classmates, please.

WEIRDNESS RE EASTER

I don't know why I got my Good Friday dates mixed up, because, as you know I NEVER, EVER make mistakes (if you missed the sarcasm, it's because you don't come to my class often enough to know that I am the Queen of the Screw Up).

IN any case: Friday is April 2nd! Grace kindly called and told me tonight . . . and yes, she is indeed correct. HOWEVER Sections 1, 2, and 3, there is still NO CLASS next week!!!!! But, as I told you in class, I will be in my office all day to help you one on one--particularly with your research for your research paper (if you need me to!!). Or, indeed, anything else at all.

Section 4, I will see you as usual, but not on Good Friday . . .

Assignments for this week

MONOLOGUE ASSIGNMENT PART 2: 5%
DUE DATE: MARCH 17th/March 19th

Edit your best monologue, following comments from me and classmates, where necessary. Briefly explain how you would show this monologue on screen. You will use this to help you when you pitch to Bob/Arthur.

Next week you will hand back to me: the original marked monologue; your final monologue; your suggested screen treatment.

Marks will be removed for grammatical and proofing errors.



REVIEW ANALYSES: 8%
DUE DATE: MARCH 17th/March 19th
http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6766
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/apr/12/television.media
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/review-the-farmers-daughter-by-jim-harrison/article1491237/


Read the three reviews above, and answer the following questions, providing one or two sentences for each review, or by point form:

a. Briefly describe the audience of each review:

b. What do you think is the intended purpose of each review?

c. Outline the basic structure of each review (in point form):

d. Which review do you think is the most successful? Why?

MSFP 261
MEDIA WRITING TWO

TEST: CITATION and PARAPHRASE: 5% of Total mark 30 minutes

1. Please create a WORKS CITED page in MLA format for the materials below. Please remember that a Works Cited page should be alphabetical, by author’s last name. You may refer to the back of English Simplified, or any other relevant resource, for details on formatting. (3.5%)
Please note: this test is also temporarily available on the blog, so you may cut and paste.
When you have completed the test, please hand in the test pages and your completed pages to me.

Two books with single authors:
Author: Barak Obama
Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
City: New York
Date: 1995

Author: Anne Stevenson
Title: Bitter Fame: A Life of Syliva Plath
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1989


Two magazine articles:

Author: Ben Goertzel
Title of Article: Can Bots Feel Joy?
Magazine: h+ Magazine
Date: Fall 2009
Page numbers: 17-18

Author: Andrew Cash
Title of Article: Trouble in the Grove
Magazine: Now Magazine
Date: March 4-10
Volume and Issue: Issue 1467 Volume 29 Number 27
Page numbers: 17
Two online newspaper articles:

Author: Mark Bourrie
Title of Article: The serial killer they couldn't cure dies behind bars
Newspaper: The Toronto Star
Section:
Date: Tuesday March 9 2010
URL: http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/776986--the-serial-killer-they-couldn-t-cure-dies-behind-bars?bn=1

Author: Marina Strauss and Omar El Akkad
Title of Article: Booksellers take on Ottawa over Amazon's distribution plans
Newspaper: The Globe and Mail
Section: Report on Business
Date: Monday March 8 2010
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/booksellers-take-on-ottawa-over-amazons-distribution-plans/article1494306/


2. Please paraphrase the following argument; please make sure you attribute the ideas to their originator in the body of your own text: (1.5%)


“Prediction is at the core of Western civilization—the Oracle at Delphi was consulted about war and more for over a thousand years—and being able to predict the future is something that millions are paid to do, and that billions of people do every day. Prediction is the claim that a particular events will occur in the future, given in specific terms and falsifiable over time.
Some sports fans are as passionate about predicting the outcome of games and being known as better guessers, in part to gain reputation and in part to win money by betting tens of billions annually in office pools and casinos. Over a dozen publications are offered to players of Fantasy Football, itself a $5 billion a year business, to help them create and manage teams that use statistics generated by actual games to determine who wins the fantasy games. It is possible that this fall these fans could be the innovators and early adopters of a new and novel way to make predictions as entertainment important in a variety of fields that are more vital to real world concerns, such as prices, markets, wars and weather.”
Adapted from Alex Lightman, “Open Prediction: How Sports Fans Can Help Save the World.” h+ Magazine, Fall 2009.

TEST REMINDER

There is a 5% test this week.

1. You will cite two books, two magazines, and two online newspaper articles in MLA format as a "Works Cited" pages (alphabetically, by author.)

2. You will paraphrase two passages and cite the originating source, in text.

Notes from Citation class--sorry for the delay!!

There are three basic kinds of plagiarism:

You use another’s WORDS (even with slight changes) as though they were your own—without quotation or attribution.

2. You use another’s IDEAS, even entirely in your own words, without citation.

3. You use factual material which is ascertained from original research (e.g. A statistical analysis. You can, however, use commonly-known facts, such as dates, names etc. without attribution).

QUOTATION vs PARAPHRASE

1. QUOTATIONS
“Japan has a special place in the virtual future,” the writer Kyo Maclear observed in 1997.


But, Maclear notes, Blade Runner also keeps showing “the image of a digitalized geisha refracted on a giant screen.” Hers is one of the rare smiles in the film. (Starts with paraphrase and becomes a quotation, and ends again with paraphrase).

2. PARAPHRASE
Kyo Maclear noted in 1997 that Japan would be particularly important in our future virtual worlds.

Maclear also pointed out that it is the digitalized human, a geisha on a giant screen, who has one of the rare smiles in the film.

TEST NEXT WEEK MARCH 10 and 12

You will need to know how to cite a book by one or more authors a magazine article (signed), and an online newspaper article FOLLOWING MLA FORMAT[open book--see pages 61 and following of English Simplified].

You will be asked to do two of each, as I will be checking for consistency. You will also be asked to paraphrase and cite two direct quotations. The test is worth 5%

We will be reviewing this material in class on Wednesday March 3 and Friday March 5th.