I will be using your first written work to evaluate your writing skills and help you strengthen your writing. 
Today's Subject:  Finding a Topic   More: Topics & Subjects
You can choose to do research on a career choice if you want,   (Career research Archive)
or you can choose another topic which interests you. 

Here are some Resources for Research:   Basic Steps to Creating a Research Project- CRLS Research Guide
Writing Research Papers:: Research and Documentation 
Rutgers Resource     a guide to grammar and style

Homework: Write a description of your research project.  This is to be on one page, typed, and double-spaced.
                     It should include a title at the top center of the page, your name at the top right.  All submissions
                     should include correct grammar, etc.  This is due Friday, July 7, at the beginning of class.
Powerpoint on Research and the Internet 
In Class Exercise    (printable)

Research A:  /Turn in Homework at beginning of class: 
The Black Death              PCC Library Resources     
Notes on storing research for CRC printing.
Research:  Powerpoint on Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process
This presentation acquaints students with the writing process,
including strategies for brainstorming, drafting, revising, and proofreading.
(Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)

Writing Research Papers::
Research and Documentation

Writing Research Papers: (MLA)  

 

Collect Descriptions of Research Project as assigned.  Corrected Black Death excerpt

Research A:    Common Writing errors:       Easily Confused Words
  They're  contraction  There   location   Their      possessive

Things (trees, leaves, rocks, bridges, cars, houses)   that

People (man, woman, teacher, carpenter, etc.)        who

 What Is A Pronoun?     Resources for Writing      More on Pronouns

Look up these words, and use each word correctly in a sentence.
These sentences are due on Friday, July 14.
BRUSQUE
BUFFOON
BURNISH
CAJOLE
CALUMNY
CAPITULATE
CAPRICE

A great resource for your Bibliography  http://citationmachine.net/
You have a homework assignment due on Friday.  You also have two homework assignments due Monday.