Friday, May 17, 2013

The Expert Project Feature Article

5. Once you are done, check the grading guide to make sure you have everything

4. Feature Article - Due Friday May 31st 

Sample Openers to start your article

Format Your Article and use MLA

Sample Feature Article 

3. You have 1500 words due by the beginning of class on Wed 

2. View Sample Outline  & Create your own Outline - Wednesday May 23

Create a new document in Google drive. Title it Per. Name Expert Project Topic Title

share with with me at jenmurphy11@gmail.com 

Create a bulleted list of ideas of how you want to organize your research (see examples on side tabs) 

1. Monday May 20- 10 Blogs due! 40 Points


Expert Project Basics

These are the basics you are responsible for. Please read the Expert project Final Write-Up in the right hand column for more details.


Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Deception & Lies (Welcome to the Border Article)

Today, you will be turning in the Deception article (Welcome to the Border) after annotating it for the second time for specific points, modes of writing, evidence of research and effective Text Features.

1. These points should be in your annotations. Circle and Label A-G
a. How did September 11, 2001 change us? Talk about What other events have changed the way we deal with security?
b. Find 3 facts about how we lie
c. Find 2 reasons why the polygraph is difficult to work with
d. According to Burgoon, what are signs of lying?
e. Eventually, what did the researchers Nunamaker & Burgoon find?
f. Why is Eckman's research useful?
g. How does the Avatar interrogator spot a lie or malintent? Find 3 ex
2. Title your sections & Outline the article - how does the author organize his information (do you think it is effective?)
3. Find & Label 3 modes of writing the article uses & the effect? (narration, description, examples, definition, compare / contrast, classification, cause / effect, problem / solution) What is the effect?
4. Put a * Next to all of the areas Higginbotham used an interview in his article (what is the effect of the interview?) * any other research
5.  Find & Circle 3 most effective text features you would borrow

Friday, May 10, 2013

How to Organize Your Expert Project

8 Blog posts due by Monday 
Per. 4 / 6 Turn in Modes of Writing HW Monday 
 
Example:
  • Intro (The situation, the problem, my story)
  • What I learned: my process of learning, history
  • Examples of what people are doing  
    (Our Mistakes (carelessness, pswd reuse))
  • How My Topic Works / Explain causes, reasons
    How Hackers Work (guessing, phishing, malware, socialing)
  • Types of .......Hackers
  • What People / Companies are Doing Now
  • Future Implications (biometrics, convenience, privacy, multi-level verification)


Thursday, May 9, 2013

What's Due

You have 8 Posts due by Monday

You should have turned in the annotated article: Kill the password: A Secret You Have That Can Ruin Your Life

You have 6 modes of writing, mimicing 6 out of the 8 writing styles I handed out in class on your own topic Due Friday, May 10th.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Article: Kill the Password

At this point, you should have annotated the article for what the author was saying and how / why the author was sharing the information.

ex: 1st pargaraph
describes how you can be affected by password hacking
scares audience

introduces problem - passwords not working anymore

explains personal experience - why he is invested