some announcements

I'm grading everything that has been submitted to date. I will be done with everyone by the end of today. Be sure to check your email inboxes as well as your gradesheets. Before checking your gradesheets, consider the following:

1. Use firefox (firefox.com). Don't use IE, its not secure!
2. Once you are committed to using Firefox, get the firefox "better gmail" addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4866). This will make sure you always log into gmail (and therefore Google docs) in the "https" secure mode. You really want to do this so I can continue to share your gradesheets with you in a secure environment.

Many of you may decide you want to revise and resubmit wp#1 or wp#2. To do so, you must:

1. submit a cover sheet explaining what you changed and why (you need to do more than what I suggested!)
2. email both the new document and the cover sheet to me by midnight August 2nd at the latest!

To get full credit on peer reviews you really need to engage your classmate's drafts. Don't just give copyediting feedback. Be sure to address all the questions I gave you in the peer review prompt.

For the final paper make sure you are distinguishing between reasons and evidence. If you can't specifically identify what is a reason in your argument, and what is a piece of evidence that supports your reason, you need to figure it out...fast! And remember, usually people provide multiple pieces of evidence per reason!

Finally, please, please, please make sure that you spend some time working on the integration of your quotes, as well as other sources, into your papers. With quotes you should have, as part of the same sentence, an introduction or conclusion that connects to what you are saying in the surrounding text. Check out:

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

• http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/researchsources/usingsources/index.cfm