April 23, 2008

• So, I was just thinking… (dangerous, I know…)
  If I want students to understand how Work Cited pages work and how they should be put together, perhaps I need an activity where they use an essay (w/a WC page) to find more information on something? The essay will have bits and pieces of, say, statistics in it or something like that, and then a list of X amount of sources. Students then have to use those sources and bits and pieces to find more information. Or, perhaps, the quotes would be deleted from the essays & the students (in groups?) would have to find the source and decide what the essay was originally quoting? Then, to the class, they’d have to defend their choices. There are other possibilities too… like giving them genres and a WC page and having them, in groups (?) decide which ones have been cited correctly. I’ve tried this to a certain extent before with goofy quizzes (where I had published a book and Julia Roberts sent an email to my sister, etc.), but this would be a hands-on approach. Plus, they’d have to search for the pieces of information that typically go into a WC entry.

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