I'd definitely recommend clicking on the CC button on YouTube. Google actually did a really good job with the voice recognition, so there are subtitles available.
As you are watching, these notes may help. On p. 181, the focus is on evaluating websites, which means deciding if they are useful for your essay or not. In addition to the recommendations in the book, I recommended the 3 Rs: Recent, Relevant, and Reliable.
I also realized that I did not say much about Wikipedia in the video lecture. Wikipedia can be a useful resource, but it is not always reliable because anyone can edit it. Checking the footnotes at the bottom of the Wikipedia article page and following the links to other articles can often direct you to more trustworthy web resources.
On p. 182, we talked about quotations and paraphrases. If you get information from a website, you MUST explain where it is from. You can borrow their exact words or explain what they said in your own way. Whether you quote or paraphrase, you must always explain WHERE the information came from (website, newspaper, author, etc.). If the exact word appear in your essay and on a website, and you did not explain where these words came from, then it is plagiarism, and you will get a 0 on that assignment.
I also want you to notice these slight differences:
'This is wrong' said Kyle. According to Kyle 'this is wrong'.
"This is right," said Kyle. According to Kyle, "this is right."
'Wrong', and "Right." (Quote marks need two little lines and the punctuation should be inside the quotes.
It is confusing, and this is something we will talk a lot more about in the Advanced Writing and Presentation class.
I really hope this online class went OK, and please ask questions in the comments section or send them to me by email.
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