ENG 131 Harvard Wk 4 The Ultimate Moab Utah Travel Guide Discussion

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Reading response should be from “The Ultimate Moab, Utah Travel Guide”

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Follow the Reading Response instructions to complete DB8.
  • Do all FOUR (4) parts of the assignment.
  • Review the grading rubric at the end of the instructions.
  • Refer to the Week 4 Lessons, Materials, & Instructions for more guidance.

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Reading Response Instructions Objectives • • • • Practice incorporating sources without plagiarizing. Use sources as opportunities to generate ideas, not as substitutes for your own ideas. Study how various kinds of paragraphs work, what makes them cohere, and how they are developed. Practice writing paragraphs using topic sentences, evidence, and commentary/analysis. Preparation Before you start working, read the Example Reading Response. Choose a paragraph from this week’s reading that works particularly well and says something important (within the context of the essay/article) that isn’t a quotation. That is, pick a paragraph where the author’s own words are strongest—not where the strongest words belong to someone the author quoted. You will use this paragraph or sentences from it for this whole exercise, so select a paragraph that offers enough material to work with. Part 1 Write a paragraph about what you can learn about how paragraphs work by studying this paragraph. Here are some generative questions designed to get you thinking; you do not have to answer them directly: Why does it begin here? How do all the sentences connect? Why does it end here? How does the paragraph work as a unit, separate from the paragraphs that surround it? What does it focus on? How is it developed? Note: Do not answer these questions directly or in this order. Instead, use them to stimulate your thinking. Your goal is to see what you can learn about how paragraphs work by analyzing how one works. Part 2 Using the same paragraph from the reading, pick a particularly meaningful sentence written in the author’s voice (i.e., the author’s words, NOT those of someone the author is quoting) and write three sentences: a sentence incorporating a quotation, a sentence incorporating a paraphrase, and a sentence summarizing the larger paragraph. A. Write a sentence that quotes your chosen sentence. - Introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that names the author. - Contextualize the quotation by showing how it relates to the rest of the paragraph or essay. - Put quotation marks around any borrowed language. - Quote the source accurately. - If you don’t need the middle part of a quotation, leave out what you don’t need and use an ellipsis ( . . . ) to indicate the omission. 1 of 3 - - If you need to change a word so it fits into your own sentence — say by changing a verb ending or a pronoun to a specific noun — indicate those changes with square brackets: [i.e., these things]. Don’t worry about including an in-text citation for now. B. Write a sentence that paraphrases your chosen sentence. - Introduce the paraphrase with a signal phrase that names the author. Failure to use a signal phrase with a paraphrase can lead to charges of plagiarism. - Contextualize the paraphrase by showing how it relates to the rest of the paragraph or essay. - Note: paraphrases express the same idea in roughly the same number of words but use COMPLETELY DIFFERENT words and COMPLETELY DIFFERENT sentence structures. o Taking someone else’s sentence and substitute synonyms in their sentence structures is plagiarism. o Taking someone else’s words and shuffling them into new sentence structures is plagiarism. - Paraphrases are harder to write than quotations because you have to do more thinking and writing of your own to make sure you accurately represent your source’s idea and to ensure that you avoid plagiarism. C. Write a sentence that summarizes the paragraph your chosen sentence comes from. - Summaries boil larger passages down to their essences. They state, briefly, what the main idea is, without getting bogged down in the details. - Summaries are harder to write than quotations and paraphrases because they require you to comprehend what you have read well enough to distinguish main ideas from supporting details. - You must still name the author in a summary with a signal phrase. Part 3 Write a paragraph responding to the paragraph you have been looking at for Parts 1 & 2. The goal is to use something the text says as a springboard for developing your own idea. Your idea can be about the text itself, how it is written, or the judgement the author made. Or you can use the text to make a wholly new point about a related concept. Use a topic sentence, evidence, analysis/commentary paragraph structure: - State your main idea in a topic sentence. (This is your own inspired by but separate from the reading. It is NOT a summary of the reading.) Introduce, contextualize, and quote textual evidence from the paragraph. Provide analysis or commentary on the textual evidence you have cited to show how it supports the point you made in your topic sentence. 2 of 3 You are not limited to three sentences. Depending on the needs of your paragraph, you may need to elaborate on your topic sentence with a follow-up sentence. In other cases, it may help to contextualize the quotation/paraphrase by going into more detail about the author’s credentials or by offering more information. Often, you will need to reiterate a quotation’s main points in plainer language before commenting on it. And it frequently takes more than a one sentence to fully comment on a quotation. However many sentences you need, they usually fall into those categories of main idea, evidence, analysis/commentary—and that they usually come in that order. Paragraphs often end with conclusion sentences as well. Part 4 Proofreading, Professionalism, and Readability • Proofread and clean up your work so it is easy for me to read and give you credit. If your work is hard to read, it will be hard for me to tell if you fulfilled the assignment. Make it easy for me to give you an A. • Post your work to this week’s discussion board. You may write your assignment within Blackboard or copy and paste from Word. (Copy is CTRL+C; Paste is CTRL+V, you can also search for “keyboard shortcuts.”) • Preview your post before submitting it as you will not be able to edit your post except by replying to it. • Whether you draft in Word or the Discussion Board itself, save copies of your work for your own records, since you will not be able to access your work after the Discussion Board closes. POSTING TO BLACKBOARD The direct web address for Blackboard is http://asuonline.alasu.edu. For issues with Blackboard, contact the OTS service desk: ots@alasu.edu or 334.229.4560. If you are purged from Blackboard, let me know ASAP so we can make alternate arrangements to keep you from failing the course. If you wait until after your account has been reinstated, it may be too late for you to pass the class. Grading Rubric Part 1: How this paragraph works as a paragraph. Worth 1 point. Part 2: Quotation, paraphrase, and summary sentences. Worth 1 point. Part 3: Response paragraph. Worth 1 point. Part 4: Proofreading, professionalism, and readability: Worth 1 point. FINAL GRADE 3 of 3 For this assignment will be using a paragraph from the "Eat and Drink" portion of the The Ultimate Moab. Utah Travel Guide Complaining about the food in Moab has historically been a sport unto itself. That's not to say there havent been some beloved classics. Milt's Stop and Eat dates back to 1954 and still serves some of the best grass-fed, all-natural burgers and shakes in the region, if not the country. But the rest of the culinary scene has slowly been catching up. It's now possible to enjoy high-quality sushi at Sabaku, banh mi and pho at 98 Center and wood-fired pizza at Antica Forma Part 1: What Can I Learn about Paragraphs by Studying This Paragraph I can learn about this paragraph by the way they structured the first sentence to really captivate the reader and to make them think about how complaining about has always been a thing in Moab. The following sentences build on from the sentence to further explain the history behind the food and how they serve the best all-natural burgers in the region. Part 2: This is the sentence I am going to work with Milts Stop and Eat dates back to 1954 and still serves some of the best grass-fed all-natural burgers and shokes in the region if not the country. Part 2A: Sentence with a Quotation Even with the history of complaining about food in Moabit is one of the best places to eat Dating back to 1954 that serves some of the best grass-fed all-natural burgers and snakes in the region not country Part 2.B: Sentence with a Paraphrase Even with the history of complaining about the food in Moabis undeniable that it doesn't have the best all. Part 2: Sentence with a Quotation Even with the history of complaining about food in Moab it is one of the best places to eat in. Dating back to 1954 that serves "some of the best grass-fed, all-natural burgers and shakes in the region, if not country." Part 2.8: Sentence with a Paraphrase Even with the history of complaining about the food in Moab it is undeniable that it doesn't have the best all- natural burgers dating back to 1965 Part 2.C.: Sentence Summarizing the Whole Paragraph Even though complaining about the food in Moad is a historical sport it is undeniable that their all-natural burger (which dates to 1965) is not the best in the whole region. However there might be some competition with the sushi at Sabaku. Part 3: In a study it is argued that an all-natural burger is better than a GMO (genetically modified organism) burger. For example, sometimes when you eat a burger it does not satisfy you as it should "Milt's Stop and Eat dates back to 1954 and still serves some of the best grass-fed, all-natural burgers and shakes in the region if not the country All natural burgers taste better because the cows are well taken care of and are all natural and no science can compete with the science of nature!
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