For Thursday, we're following the syllabus. However, in deference to some of the questions that came up during last week's Wikipedia workshop -- especially about reconciling a seemingly broad topic with seemingly specific claims from the sources you are reading -- I'd like to refocus the workshop on authoritative "moves," i.e., giving sentences and phrases the weight and transparency and clarity they need in order to be received as informative, viable claims.
That said, in addition to working through <SA #6> (which will allow you to get your feet wet editing in Wikipedia's sandbox environment), I'm asking you to read the following:
- the lesson on "Emphasis" in Style
- Working with Words pp. 94-95 (making sentences parallel), pp. 111-115 (getting words in the right order), and pp. 183-194 (quoting, semi/colons, hyphens and dashes).
As you're reading through WW, you'll likely alternate between useful discovery and pointless redundancy, but stick with it. Some of the conventions they point to will be useful for some of the sentences you have already composed in your Wikipedia space.
Finally, again, our emphasis will be on applying the editing workshop to our Wikipedia article in progress. So, please ensure that your group's writing space has a polished enough draft that we can actually get into it and do something useful.
See you Thursday,
-Prof. G
