Researching Professionally and Productively: August 30, 2016

Focus: How do we productively tinker with research?

Slightly shortened class today due to TRIBE. Also, tomorrow is a PLC day.

1. Warming up with a quick survey about your current routines as a writer

2. Looking over yesterday's takeaways from Tinkering School and writing a short manifesto that encourages you as a writer

Ex: "Embrace the mess."

3. Sharing a routine with you that's part of every professional writer's life: the annotated bibliography; giving you time to continue gathering websites and to thinking through them using the annotated bibliography

• Click here for an overview of the what/why/how of the annotated bibliography.
• Click here for a sample with formatting help.

4. Giving you time to explore, research, figure things out, fail, learn, etc

HW:
1. Please finish your annotated bibliography before class on Thursday, September 1. Make sure it's in your cultural hysteria folder. Minimum # of entries: 5.

2. If it's in your budget or on your bookshelf, please acquire your own copy of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

3. BRING IN STICKY NOTES. We shall hoard them like they're going out of style.