The Issues Blog has more than one purpose.

It will help you to practice summary and paraphrase, which will help you revise your collection and prepare for your argument paper.

You’ll use it to help you stay on track gathering new sources or looking more closely at the ones you have so that you can write the new paper well.

It will provide your classmates with a resource. I’d suggest checking your classmates’ entries each week. You’ll likely find a source there.

You’ll publish your issues blog on the following google site, Spring 18 Issues Blog. You’ll find instructions for what and how to publish, along with examples, in our google drive in a file at this link. I’ve also posted the same instructions on Spring 18 Issues Blog.

March 8: Your first blog entry will be a revision of one of your collection with introduction entries using the issues blog instructions as a guide. Do not use the seed article. Choose an article that you think is closest to the problem your paper will engage.

March 15: Your second issues blog entry should be one that you find through an article from your collection. At this point, you are looking for strong credible sources of different kinds. For example, you may be looking for certain kinds of data. You might want to read opposing viewpoints. You might be ready for a scholarly source. You might be interested in finding a corroborating source– a second or third background source that backs up some of what you’ve learned.

Find an article you’ve read that has several links in it or sites different authors, experts, or sources. Follow the links or see if you can find writing by the authors, experts or sources. Use what you find to write your March 15 issues blog entry.