Saturday, October 6th, 2012--10:30 am

Greetings,

Hope you are enjoying the weekend so far.

A couple of things:

1. A slight adjustment to the syllabus. We obviously did not get to Group Work #2 yesterday.
I have moved it to Friday, October 12th, which means Group Work #3 is bumped to Wednesday, October 31st. Please record these changes on your hard copy of the syllabus. I will make the changes to the syllabus posted on the blog during the first week of the semester.

2. As you already know, the 3rd and final quiz on Rules of Thumb is Monday (pages 136-151).

This quiz will ask you to record correctly ten sources in MLA format as they would appear on the Works Cited page. As usual, it is an open book quiz. However, please become familiar with what is contained in these pages; otherwise, you may not have time to complete the quiz. In other words, you may want to make tabs to help you find the information in a timely manner.

Here is an example of how the quiz will work:

A short story found in the anthology, Best American Short Stories, 2012. The anthology is  edited by Alice Sebold. The short story is titled, "Over the Hill" and it is written by Jane Sims and can be found on pages 54-73.  It was published in Boston by McGraw Hill in 2012.

(you can find how to document this on a Works Cited page on page 147 in Rules of Thumb, at the very top of the page. Below is the way you would document the source in MLA format.)

Sims, Jane. "Over the Hill." Best American Short Stories, 2012. Ed. Alice Sebold. Boston: McGraw    Hill, 2012. 54-73. Print.

OF COURSE, FOR THE QUIZ, YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO INDICATE ITALICS, SO WHEN AN ITEM SHOULD BE IN ITALICS, YOU WILL INSTEAD UNDERLINE IT TO INDICATE THAT WHEN TYPING, YOU WOULD TYPE IT IN ITALICS.

Please be sure that you understand this example completely. If you have any questions, please email me over the weekend. Again, the quiz will contain 10 items similar to my example. They could include an article in a newspaper, an article in a magazine, a television show, etc.