Just a reminder that next class is the last class for this course

Two assignments for this week. The first is for you to send in your thesis statement to me by e-mail and I should receive it by Friday this week noon. Do not send attachments but put the statement in the main body of the e-mail and in the title or subject line you should write only Write 3. Second is to do your first rewrite of your first paper. When you get your thesis statement back you should then write up the first paragraph of your paper properly formatted. The first paragraph is ment to be long as it should describe what the rest of the paper will say. See you next week.

Check this out:http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/archives/half_a_century_of_nuclear_explosions/

For those of you writing about the environment and pollution this might be a good source:
| Cows That Burp Less Methane to Be Bred |
| from the belching-bovines dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 24, @13:23 (Earth) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/24/1710252 |
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Canadian scientists are [0]breeding a type of cow that burps less, in an
attempt to reduce greenhouse gases. Cows are responsible for almost 75%
of total methane emissions, mostly coming from burps. Stephen Moore,
professor of agricultural, food and nutritional science at the University
of Alberta, hopes the refined bovines will produce 25 per cent less
methane. Nancy Hirshberg, spokesman for Stonyfield Farm says, "If every
US dairy farmer reduced emissions by 12 per cent it would be equal to
about half a million cars being taken off the road."

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/24/1710252

Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5612957/Cows-that-burp-less-methane-to-be-bred.html

This is a big problem for everyone and one of the reasons we take so much time telling you about it;
| Alleged Plagiarism In Chris Anderson's New Book |
| from the hyperlinks-don't-stick-to-dead-trees dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 24, @12:27 (Books) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/24/1528204 |
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[0]ScorpFromHell writes "Blogger Waldo Jaquith alleges in his blog that
Chris Anderson, Wired magazine's editor-in-chief and writer of The Long
Tail, has apparently [1]plagiarized content from various sources without
attribution for his soon-to-be-published book. 'In the course of reading
Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, for a
review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen
passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. ...
Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia.' When questioned
about the similar passages, Anderson responded, "All those are my
screwups after we decided not to run notes as planned, due to my
inability to find a good citation format for web sources... As you'll
note, these are mostly on the margins of the book's focus, mostly on
historical asides, but that's no excuse. I should have had a better
process to make sure the write-through covered all the text that was not
directly sourced. I think what we'll do is publish those notes after all,
online as they should have been to begin with.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/24/1528204

Links:
0. http://twitter.com/scorpfromhell
1. http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/

Heads up on your research:
Student's Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers: report
ABC - May 7, 2009, 6:01 am
An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported on Wednesday.

The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre, who died in March.

Shane Fitzgerald, 22, a final-year student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin, told the newspaper he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when doing research on globalisation.

He quoted Oscar-winning composer Jarre as saying, "One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life.

"When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear."

The quote was posted on Wikipedia shortly after Jarre's death and later appeared in obituaries in major British, Indian and Australian newspapers.

Mr Fitzgerald told the newspaper he picked Wikipedia because it was something a lot of journalists look at and it can be edited by anyone.

While he was wary about the ethical implications of using someone's death as a social experiment, he had carefully generated the quote so as not to distort or taint Jarre's life, he said.

Mr Fitzgerald said he was shocked by the result of his experiment.

"I didn't expect it to go that far. I expected it to be in blogs and sites, but on mainstream quality papers? I was very surprised about," he said.

He said the hoax remained undiscovered for weeks until he emailed the newspapers that had been deceived to tell them that they had published an inaccurate quote.

The Irish Times said that despite some newspapers removing the quote from their websites or carrying a correction and the fact that it had been dropped by Wikipedia, it remained intact on dozens of blogs, websites and newspapers.

-*AFP*

Hello Writers your assignment for next week is a one sentence thesis statement, typed and properly formated on a single sheet of paper with the one alteration to the correct formating - 14 pt font instead of the regulation 12. See you on Tue. Clark

Marks

Could everyone please bring in their mark for the thesis statement and first paragraph for your second paper. I need to record those marks. See you on Tue. Your second paper is due.