Slides for Day 10 in EWRT 2, Spr 18

1. CREM EWRT 2
Day 10
Who needs coffee?

2. NYT Evening Briefing Quiz #4
 1. Yesterday, the President withdrew the US from what deal/pact? Make
sure your answer contains two key words: one of the name of a country
and one is a description of what the pact was regulating.
 2. Eric Schneiderman was—until two days ago—the Attorney General of
which US state? Why did he resign?
 3. The President tried to affect the outcome of yesterday’s Republican
primary in which US state? Why did he try to discourage votes for Don
Blankenship?
 4. Did the President know about the payment to Stormy Daniels?
 5. The Swedish Academy will not award what pretigious prize this year?
 6. The US military is apparently involved—more deeply than originally
thought—in fighting Houthi rebels from which country?
 7. Last week, Iowa passed the nation’s most restrictive law on what
medical procedure?
 8. All of this news is depressing. What would you rather pay attention to
this week?

3. Business / Participation
 Check in. How are people feeling?
Overwhelmed?
 Time to get serious about the
Integrated Project (we’ll talk more in
a moment).
 Participation for today: four points
total.
 1 for something you say in full class
discussion.
 3 for taking part in the draft workshop
for the text of P2.

4. CREM Integrated Project: Next Steps
 So, you think you have your
question for the Integrated
Project... Now what?
 Next steps:
 1. Find a relevant article that asks
your same question and reports
the results.
 2. Get Brian’s approval for that
article.
 3. Collect data.
 4. Do some preliminary analyses on
that sample. (Talk to Amanda
about this one.)
 ALL OF THIS IS DUE BY May 25 (the
end of Week 7).
 Luckily, HW #6 will take care of steps
1 and 2 for you.
 HW #6 is due on Canvas by
Wednesday, May 16.

5. Peer Review: Paper 2 Draft
 Before your partner reads your draft, tell them the
title of your infographic.
 When you read you partner’s text, I want you to
answer the following questions:
 1. Based on the title, do they include what you would
expect? Did they leave any important information out?
 2. Do they provide background that explains what this
infographic is about?
 3. Do they provide enough explanation of the
information that they include? What could they explain
in more detail?
 4. Do they provide too much text at any point? What
needs to be edited or more concise?
 5. Does any of the information they include require
sources? Ask them how they intend to “cite” them.
 6. Does this seem to be written for high school
students? What would be confusing to a h.s. student?
 7. Check the grammar, spelling, etc.
 When you and your partner have reviewed each other’s
text, I want you each to HAND DRAW a rough draft of
how you could do the layout of your infographic.
 Where will the headline go?
 Where will the background info go?
 Where will the “clusters” of information go?
 What colors might you use?
 Where could you add graphics?
 I want you—with your partner—to actually map out a
possible layout for your infographic. When you’re done, I
want to see it.

6. HW and Journal 3
 Homework:
 Paper 2 final draft is now due Monday,
May 14, 11:59 PM on Canvas.
 There is no reading for Monday and no
Discussion post.
 But, as you promised today in class, you
are going to get a head start on the
reading for Wednesday, May 16. Only read
one of these article (see the Journal 3
assignment for details):
 Lord, Ross, & Lepper
 Taber & Lodge
 Remember: these articles are HARD in
certain ways and you should not expect to
understand everything. Some sentences
or paragraphs will be incomprehensible.
That’s fine! Just try your best to get what
you can from it.