Wake Up: How to Fix a Slogan
The National Science Teachers Association
“Working to Help Improve
Science Teaching Efforts since 2008”
- We want to improve teaching, not effort.
- We want to do the improving, not help.
- We want to show results, not work at it.
The National Science Teachers Association
“Better Science Teaching since 2008”
Even that doesn’t brag about the ultimate result, which would be more science LEARNING, wouldn’t it? No matter how well the Association improves teaching, if students don’t learn more science, it fails.
The National Science Teachers Association
“Our Students Learn More, and We Can Prove it.”
or
The National Science Teachers Association
“Demonstrably Better Learning since 2008”
The Sources Unit
- Sources Workshop Number 2
- Responsive to Student X’s trouble finding academic sources
- Located in Course Documents/Research Tips/Sources Workshop
- Revision—Rhetoric
- We’ll use the paragraphs you selected from your posts to workshop for Rhetoric revisions
- But Enough About You
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How to fix a slogan- “Working to Help Improve
Science Teaching Efforts since 2008”
1.We want to improve teaching, not effort.
2.We want to do the improving, not help.
3.We want to show results, not work at it.
The slogan is terrible because its misguiding the true issue. We want to improve teaching not effort. Show the result so we can brag about it. “Our Students Learn More, and We Can Prove it.” If we are better writers at the end of the year then the teacher failed.
Sources Workshop Number 2-
Scholarly articles are written by an expert. Footnotes, abstract, specialized letter, and .pdf are all signs of sighting a scholarly article. Popular sources are created to get news out fast. Often magazines or newspapers that are brought from publisher. Lots of academic sources can better writing. The job is to persuade people using sources that are 100 percent true.
Revision—Rhetoric- Ask yourself these questions when type a paper. Does the paragraph use precise language to emphasize its ideas? Does it make clear claims? Does the paragraph ask readers to accept a specific premise? Does the paragraph reveal (or does it hide) its arguments? Does the paragraph present a complex thesis? Does the paragraph employ its Scholarship effectively? Does the paragraph give readers time to disagree?
Notes:
– Typically, a slogan should show accomplishments and what the efforts of this person or company.
– Do not use “you” or “your” in your work.
– We do not want to “single out people.”
– Scholarly periodicals are valid sources because they are written by experts.
– Newspapers are considered popular periodicals.
– References is a citation, not just a link.
– There are gray areas in when deciphering whether or not a source is scholarly.
– Google scholar is a good place to look for sources.
– The library database is also a good place to look.
– Pay close attention to the language in the sources you do find.
– The only way you know you’re good at finding your own rhetorical imperfections, find it in someone else’s.
Notes:
– we want to show results n the slogan, not talk about efforts
– scholarly articles are way better for sources than periodicals
– look for an association with a university or a PhD
– if you can’t find more sources and the same are coming up or they aren’t scholarly, examine the way you’re searching
-fixing your slogan example exemplifies that making your point more focused and centered on the improvements is beneficial to the reader
-In academic writing, do not use the second person (you, you’re, yours)
-substitute you for the word we, first person plural
-scholarly articles: look for phd or association with a university
-scholarly articles are usually much longer than popular magazines
-magazines do not go through peer review
-consult professor if worried source isn’t scholarly
-having someone else look at your work will give you a perspective of if other people can understand your work
Scholarly vs popular periodicals
Scholarly periodicals include articles written by professionals and journalists
Popular periodicals are magazines and news paper sources that are not considered appropriate
Scholarly articles are usually long in legnth
Popular periodicals run from 3 to 5 pages long
Consult with the professor when using or contemplating appropriate soucres
Enough about you: removing second person language and replacing it
Citing sources allows the reader to follow along with the readers claims and know that the information is cited properly
Popular sources include:CNN, New York Times, TMZ articles etc…
Scholarly sources include articles written professionally. journalist, psychologist, etc..
Using You, Yourself, is not to be used in our writing.
Always ask professor if not sure if journal is scholar.
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If you cannot access book, got to prof search and check the rowan library
other notes in other reply box
Sources Workshop
Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals
– scholarly periodicals are known as journals
– they are evaluated by other authors (peer-reviewed)
– popular periodicals are known as magazines
– what to look for in a scholarly periodical taken from the internet
– contains an abstract
– short biography
– footnotes
– references
– specialized vocabulary
– very long
Having trouble finding sources?
– don’t look up things too specific
How to find good and reliable sources
– reexamine your search technique
– first, examine the sources
– unlike academic sources, opinion pieces from news sources, make no effort to cite their own references beyond linking to other stories from their own publications
– signal phrases: contain language that hints at fields of research that are worth pursuing
Make sure that if you are reading a journal that it is not a magazine. they are easily confused for each other.
A scholarly article must be written by an expert and peer reviewed by an expert so that it will classify as one. Otherwise it is not by a scholar
To find sources you must type in the word search key to help you find good articles on a scholarly website.
– slogan should show accomplishments and what the efforts of this person or company.
– Don’t use second person such as “you”
– Scholarly periodicals= valid sources
– Scholarly sources have an abstract
– Newspapers= popular periodicals
– References= citation
– Google scholar is a good place to look for sources.
– Use database to find scholarly sources
– Language matters
– always examine sources
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NTSA wants to improve teaching not effort, they want to do the improving not help, and they want to show results not work at it. Use scholarly sources that can easily be found in the library’s data base, scholarly sources are made by experts on the given topic so you know they are reliable.
a slogan is a brief window into a companies goal
keep it professional, do not use you, I, your, etc.
don’t try to focus on individuality, focus on the group effort