Part2:
Required to read the book ''  Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss''

1. ReadEula Biss - "Relations" (pages 15 - 35)
But before we read, first I want to get you thinking about analysis and what that looks like.
Thoroughly understanding the difference between cause/correlation/coincidence is vital to good analysis. This video from the Khan Academy does a great job of walking you through an analysis of a reading (which is what you'll be doing this week!): 
http://youtu.be/ROpbdO-gRUo

For your Follow-the-Source assignment coming up in the next coming weeks, as well as throughout the rest of the quarter, you will need to use proper MLA documentation form to cite your sources. Please read/view the below information:
 MLA Style Aid: http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/clip/citations/mla/
 MLA Documentation 2009 from the OWL at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01  a good video overview of this same information is here 
http://youtu.be/EaFcJ3f4fJk

Review of Incorporating Quotes - VERY IMPORTANT AND USEFUL!: 
http://youtu.be/eLNlyLala-k

 
After reading Eula Biss's essay "Relations," I want you to conduct a little bit of research on the embryo mix-up case she writes about in the essay as well as some ideas and terms she brings up in the essay.  Go ahead and search some these terms and see what you can find (if you can't find one, don't sweat it - you can post it to the discussion board and someone, or I, will answer you):
1. Donna Fasano (pregnant woman in the embryo mix-up case on Staten Island in 1999)
2. Robert Rogers and Deborah Perry-Rogers 
3. In vitro fertilization and/or in vitro fertilization parents rights
4. Brown vs. Board of Education
5. Double consciousness (a term first coined by W. E. B. Dubois)
With these terms in mind, do a little bit of research on North's library database search engine:  
https://library.northseattle.edu/articles/subject
Again, try Academic Search Premiere or ProQuest and see what you can find when you enter in words or phrases associated with one of the terms that interests you most AND enlightens your reading of the essay.  
You can also try http://scholar.google.com/ and your own research utilizing the information about research and evaluating sources from last week.  
Our goal is to inform our reading of the complications of the cultural complexity of the situation AND evaluate the sources we are using.  
Steps:  
1) Research - both academic journals and your own guided research online 
2) Find and choose an article that illuminates both or either the term that most interested you and/or an aspect of the essay that you didn't understand or wanted to learn more about.
3) Write a paragraph (5+ sentences long) that discusses what you found interesting in the article and/or what it contributed to your understanding of "Relations" or any aspect of the essay you found fascinating or were curious about.
4) Find out where your article came from!  Look at their sources - the works cited or bibliography at the end of the work, articles they mention within the text, studies or people they quote on their text.  Now, evaluate and ask yourself, did they apply their sources critically, carefully, and correctly?  Or, did they take the information out of context, change something to fit their ideas, omit important information that could change the readers' interpretation?
5) Write a paragraph (5+ sentences long) that discusses how the author of your original article used their sources.  Ultimately, you need to judge whether they did it ethically or effectively.

The title of your post will be the title and author of the original article you are evaluating.  The text of your post will be your two paragraphs: what you found interesting and/or useful from step 3 and your analysis of the author's use of sources from step 5.