4 February: 4th period

1) Read “An Interview with Diana Sheets: Reading in the Age of the Internet” (handout). Follow instructions below.
2) Groups created a poster of important information found in the interview for the research process.
3) Generate at least 7 questions for Part 2 and turn in.


Create a Works Cited entry for the interview/article.
Answer the following questions/follow the instructions:
QUESTION 1:
(A) Make a chart of the information Sheets provides in her answer to question 1.
(B) What sources does she cite?
(C) Summarize the 3rd paragraph (“It’s important to keep…”). Give an example from your life that supports what she is saying here. Give an example that refutes what she is saying.
(D) What does it mean when she says that “there is very little vetting occurring on the Internet”?

QUESTION 2:
(A) In your own words, explain how “the Internet is our Wild, Wild West.”
(B) Explain the metaphor using examples.
(C) What kinds of deception might you encounter online? Give examples of these.

QUESTION 3
(A) In your own words, explain what “content scraping” is.
(B) Are you guilty of “content scraping”? If so, how?
(C) What can you do to avoid this?

QUESTION 4
(A) In your own words, explain how “autobiography is the least reliable of genres.”
(B) Scenario: You are writing your autobiography. You tell how you recall an incident from your life. A person who was part of the incident recalls it differently. Who is right? Explain how this makes your autobiography unreliable.
(C) What is the difference between a sophisticate reader and a naïve reader when it comes to autobiography?

QUESTION 5
(A) Summarize Sheets’ answer.

QUESTION 7:
(A) Paraphrase the answer to question 7.

QUESTION 8
(A) Why are people not reading primary sources?
(B) How are book reviews used?
(C) Why is it important to form your own judgments?
(D) Define “anemic” and “myopic” as they are used in this answer.
(E) Paraphrase the last sentence “The fact that…”

QUESTION 9
(A) How does Sheets say that journalism is being affected by the Internet?
(B) List a piece of advice Sheets gives in this answer. How can you use this advice?