Tonight, June 8, 2010

Dear Class,

This is our last month. And we have a lot of more work to do.

Thank you for submitting your drafts for your writing project. I would really like each of you to have a three page paper finished before your presentations in two weeks. Some of you have decided to write stories while others have taken on the challenge of writing about Marcelo Lucero. Congratulations to all of you!

Tonight, we will focus on writing our papers. I asked you last night and last week to email your essays to yourselves as an attachment or bring a flash drive. I hope it all works out tonight.

References and Bibliographies

If you are borrowing ideas and text from other articles, like the New York Times, you have to make sure that you cite them at the end of your papers as references. We have read a lot about Marcelo Lucero in The New York Times. Please make sure that you refer back to the articles with ideas you took from them.

Click on the following and read what it's all about.

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/essay/1.xml


Here is a sample of a Reference (actual book, not the internet):

Chesnais, J-C. (1998). Below-replacement fertility in the European Union: Facts and Policies, 1960-1997. Review of Population and Social Policy, No 7, pp. 83-101.


Exercise


How do you create a reference for the following article? What information do you need?

A Killing in a Town Where Latinos Sense Hate:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/nyregion/14immigrant.html?_r=2


How to write a Reference for an article on the Internet


If the article is on the internet, you can write the reference this way:

Brody, J. E. (2007, December 11). Mental reserves keep brain agile. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/


List of All the New York Times Article:


A Killing in a Town Where Latinos Sense Hate
Latinos Recall Pattern of Attacks Before Killing
To Heal in Patchogue: Having a Say and Seeing It Come to Life
A Year After an Immigrant’s Death, Signs of Hope
Personal Stories Highlight Latino International Film Festival
Prosecutors Describe ‘Hunt’ for Hispanic Victim
Blood on Defendant’s Knife Was Victim’s, Scientist Says
Guilty Verdict in Killing of Long Island Man


More Sources:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/



Enjoy your writing time. Please make sure you print two copies, one for yourself and one for me.


Your valiant teacher,


Bino