Read each of the following, select 3 articles and write a 3 pages research paper.
- A Life-or-Death Situation by Robin Marantz Henig ( https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/magazine/a-life-or-death-situation.html )
- The Deadliest Virus by Michael Specter ( http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=a5f346eb-972e-4b94-8b55-8d613bce8f0a%40sessionmgr101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=73047264&db=a9h )
- Which Species Will Live? by Michelle Nijhuis ( http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=70371e04-f372-43c2-810f-048bd4d2ad8a%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=77916145&db=a9h )
- Lights Out! Too Many Bulbs Actually Put Us In the Dark by Semini Pathberiya ( http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=a0cb45f1-1388-46de-988e-9cb125208d61%40pdc-v-sessmgr04&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=90316922&db=a9h )
- 23 and You by Virginia Hughes ( https://medium.com/matter/23-and-you-66e87553d22c#.a904h18mz )
- Remembering Roger Boisjoli: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch by Howard Berkes ( https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launchww.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch )
Documented Reports (DRs) are three-page reports students write to discuss research critically, practice one or more research writing skills, and explore possible subjects for a final research paper. For this assignment:
Research Writing Skill: Quoting
Direct quotation in articles and reports create immediacy for the reader—as if he or she is there interviewing an expert or witness first-hand. Much research involves direct quotation, and Module 2 introduces you to many guidelines for this important research skill.
Read through the Quoting ( http://bbaddins.schoolcraft.edu/addins/eng102v3/webpages/researchskills/m2_quoting.html ) section of the Research Writing Skills website. Be sure to click on all four buttons of the slide show:
- Frontloading
- The “Quoted-in” Technique
- Beware of the Buried Reference
- Introducing and Reducing the Long Quotes
- Quoting: http://bbaddins.schoolcraft.edu/addins/eng102v3/webpages/researchskills/m2_quoting.html
- Rubric: https://bb.schoolcraft.edu/webapps/rubric/do/course/gradeRubric?mode=grid&isPopup=true&rubricCount=1&prefix=_892239_1&course_id=_21396_1&maxValue=100.0&rubricId=_63429_1&viewOnly=true&displayGrades=false&type=grading&rubricAssoId=_86835_1