March 25 & 26

On A-day, I have to go to a training class in Salt Lake for the new Technical and Professional Communication class I'm teaching next fall. You will work in the Writing Lab today on your own. This assignment is due March 31 (A-day) and April 1 (B-day). Please follow these instructions and do your work:

SNOPES INQUIRY ASSIGNMENT

What you should do today--

1. Get out the pink Snopes.com assignment. On the back, there's a sample rubric.
2. Create your Snopes rubric where you will write your report (to create a rubric, go to Table, Insert, Table, Column--1, Rows--7). Look on the back of the pink Snopes paper for categories--Title, Claim, Status, etc.
3. In the Snopes rubric under "Claim," write the question you're researching/investigating.
4. Now use some of the key words from your Question/Claim to do a research search--go to PGHS webpage, Students, Research, Pioneer Online Library, SIRS Knowledge Source, and then enter some key words.

Example--
Question: Why do Muslim women wear head scarves?
Claim (my guess or hypothesis): Muslim women wear head scarves because they don't want to be attractive to men.
Search terms: "Muslim women" and "head scarves"

With these search terms, SIRS Knowledge Source finds 15 newspaper articles and 6 magazine articles on this subject. I clicked on the first article, and I liked the article--it seems helpful. I like that every time "head scarves" appears, it's in bold so I can see at a glance where relevant information is found.

Also, if I want to use information from this article, I can click on "Citation" in the upper right, then do Control "C" (for copy), then Control "V" to paste into my Snopes rubric under "Sources."

This is basically what you should do today: find articles, read them, summarize the information in your Snopes rubric under "Origin/Investigation" and cite the sources at the bottom of your rubric under Sources.

Basically, find a question and answer the question--like you would in a report, but in a Snopes rubric.