Directions: complete the chart as you watch the episode
from the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens.
Remember, you are listening for the
Harris Moves:
The first move, coming
to terms, refers to the process of reading, getting to know content,
concepts and issues. When you come to terms in writing, you restate the work of
another writer.
The mechanisms for achieving this are:
summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting and writing descriptions. In making
notes about a reading, you would be looking
for the writer’s purpose (what they intended to do in the text), the writer’s main argument, the evidence
provided for the claim and how this relates to your own argument. One
misunderstanding about academic readings is that we all read and receive the
same message when we can really all interpret the same article quite
differently. Academic writing is often about explaining how you read a paper
and what you interpret from it. Your notes need to explain what you understand
from the source text, what your interpretation is and how it relates to your
argument in your own writing (Harris, 2006).
What
is the purpose of this episode?
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HOW
DO YOU KNOW? Be specific. (And use the sheet about rhetorically accurate
verbs…)
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What
is the episode’s CLAIM?
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Quote when the words themselves matter; paraphrase when the idea matters.
Note
SPECIFIC instances where the episode is:
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Illustrating
using other texts as examples to explain your
point (anecdotes, data, scenarios)
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Authorizing
when you use an author to support your thinking,
this is the “quick appeal to another writer as a voice of authority” (Harris 44).
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Extending
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HOW does the episode use the ILLUSTRATING and AUTHORIZING
to put
(their) own meaning on an idea drawn from another text to advance (their) argument?
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Questions / comments:
