My Home Page » Writing 7 Writing 7 Writing Workshop is a  relatively new course here.  At Columbia Teachers College over the past few summers, I learned many new methods and strategies to teach both reading and writing, and I'm excited to use them in class.  The  idea behind our course is that the more you write, reflect, and revise your writing, the better you'll become at it!   Units of Study *Memoir *Research-based Argument Essays *Literary Essay *Test Preparation: Writing for the New York State ELA Exam *Controlling Idea essay   Grading Writer’s Notebook     40                Participation              30 Final Pieces                20 Homework                 10

Use the links below to access an article, a website and a video which talk about school sports.  Use the sheet provided to take notes about the pros and cons of the subject

How to cite your sources in your research based argument essay

Citing non-print or sources from the Internet

With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.

Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:

• Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).
• You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.
• Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

Electronic sources

In the first example, the writer has chosen not to include the author name in-text; however, two entries from the same author appear in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes both the author’s last name and the article title in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader to the appropriate entry on the Works Cited page (see below). In the second example, “Stolley et al.” in the parenthetical citation gives the reader an author name followed by the abbreviation “et al.,” meaning, “and others,” for the article “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” Both corresponding Works Cited entries are as follows:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

LInk to Article "High-School Sports Aren't Killing Academics"

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/high-school-sports-arent-killing-academics/280155/

Link to web page: High School Sports Injuries

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00056

Youth Sports Injuries Statistics

http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org/media/statistics.aspx

high school sports video clip

http://www.kpho.com/story/20163007/high-school-football-more-dangerous-than-college-pros

Prewriting -use this link to organize your persuasive essay

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/