Soc of Communications Week Four

This week's SAKAI quiz will open on Thursday and close before class on the next Monday.  This will be our regular pattern.  This quiz involves rewriting sentences, following the principles in the Penguin Manual.  You get only one try and will have to wait until I grade the answers for your score.  Please do not share the sentences with other students before they take the test.  Once you start a SAKAI quiz, you have to finish it.  Clicking "save and exit" does not stop the clock.
Due February 17:  The Future of High Technology Writing Assignment.




Assigned reading:

  1. The AI  Chasers by Patrick Turner.  In SAKAI.
  2. Next 25 Years in Tech in PC Magazine, January 1, 2008 (Volume 27, No 1)
  3. APA Documentation Section in The Penguin Handbook
  4. Part 5 in The Penguin Manual:  Researching and Chapters 26 to 29.  These are also in SAKAI/resources/week four with the title EffectiveWriting.pdf
  5. Sociology Department Citation Guidelines. 



Links and Notes:

  1. Dartmouth changes its writing course. 
  2. Sociology Department Library Resources Guide. 
  3. Research paper in APA style, from the Brief Penguin Handbook. 
  4. Second Life Virtual World. 
  5. Video:  Introduction to Second LIfe. 
  6. What the Second Life pet should look like..
  7. Presentation with Writing Samples.