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item	Using Outside Sources
contact	Shelley Rodrigo (Mesa Community College) rrodrigo@mail.mc.maricopa.edu 1 of 32 packages by Shelley Rodrigo
credits	Lisa Cahill (Arizona State University, East) Michele Hammers (Arizona State University) Gail Mee (Dean of Instruction, Mesa Community College) Educational Development Project Committee (Mesa Community College)
college(s)	Mesa Community College
discipline(s)	English, Composition
summary	This is a web-based lesson that explores the various considerations of using outside sources in writing assignments.
details	This is one of my first relatively detailed and in depth attempts at a multimedia, interactive lesson. I consider this a web-based lesson that gets the students to interact with both the course content and the technology. As set up by the menu of links on the left, this lesson has a dominate path. However, the sub-sections act more book-like with page turning links at the bottom of the page. The particular lesson includes a lot of outside links to sources on the internet. I especially like the sources I compiled on copyright. This lesson does NOT include examples of how to cite sources in the text or at the end in the bibliography. There are a variety of activities that students may do with the information provided in this lesson. For example, students can analyze the bias of a source using the “Analyzing Biases in Sources” checklist on the “Tips for Taking Notes” page. Students can situate their evidence by addressing the questions under “Evidence needs to fit the rhetorical situation and disciplinary context” on the “Using Evidence” page. Finally, students can practice paraphrasing using the “Tips for Paraphrasing” on the “Paraphrases” page. I developed this lesson/assignment as a part of an Educational Development Project grant at Mesa Community College. The purpose of my grant was to develop online lessons that tried to approach the material in an alternative manner (not just the text book). A lot of the material I covered in my online courses was only presented in one format, usually print/textbook based. I tried to develop these lessons as either more active learning (actually doing something) or more interactive/hypertextual so students could follow their own path through the material. For this particular project I predominately used Macromedia’s Dreamweaver. I used template pages in Dreamweaver. You will want to be sure that the attached art (and maybe the attached template pages) are in the same file so your students can see everything. Email me if you are struggling with downloading, viewing etc.; we’ll try to troubleshoot. You will want to start with the HTML file “sources.” This is still a fairly new assignment for me; I am definitely planning on revisiting it for revision purposes. I know I would like to add examples that demonstrate the different methods. I would greatly appreciate any feedback, or possible examples, you all might have! Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below.
web links	http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html I ask that my students use the American Psychological Association’s (APA) style guidelines. This is one of the better internet sites with examples on how to do both in-text and full bibliographic citations. http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/social_sciences/intext.html I ask that my students use the American Psychological Association’s (APA) style guidelines. This is one of the better internet sites with examples on how to do both in-text and full bibliographic citations. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docsources.html Although this link is included in the Using Outside Sources lesson, I thought fellow instructors might find it very useful. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) compiled a list of popular disciplines and fields and identified their primary style guidelines. http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~rrodrigo/sources/sources.htm This is the exact same lesson linked from my MCC homepage. This will give an example of what the lesson should look like after you download the zipped arrangement files. This site will also include updated versions of the lesson. I will try to keep the ML
supplements	These items are licensed under a Creative Commons License Zipped Sources File (compressed archive) sources.zip (126.4 kB) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below.
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