Week 8

I've posted a short paragraph in the content section of D2L. It's not meant to make fun of archaeologists because all the subdisciplines are guilty of this kind of vague writing.

Rewrite the paragraph in more vivid prose. Use Strunk and White as a guide.

Week 7

To help you think about organization, please post your table of contents or the order of the sections of an article you're writing.

There's helpful advice from a book editor here.

Week 6

For your posts this week, consult the plagiarism test under the content section of Desire2Learn. Which of the three paragraphs constitutes plagiarism and why?

I've also put under the content section the style guides for the SAA and AAA. This will give you some guidelines for how to cite sources.

Week 5

Here's the link to the site with examples of raw data from fieldwork in Tzintzuntzan.

For this week, we'll address how do you write about humans, past and present. The poem can be any form, any length. The goal is to have you experiment with a new writing style.

Week 4

Now that we've spent a few weeks talking about good writing practices, we'll turn to the specifics of working with data.

I've asked you to post about what you consider your primary data. Please bring in an example of how you organize your information. It can be in chart form, fieldnotes, or some other database.