via YouTube – Herding Cats.

• Font: Times New Roman or Calibri, 12pt
• Paragraph: Double-spaced, half inch indentation
• Page Layout: One inch margins all around; last name and page number in Header section (see below for explanation); student name, etc. same size and spacing as Paragraph; no space before or after Essay Title (original, not the name of the work you’re writing over)
• Quotations Shorter Than Three Typed Lines: Quotation marks around all words pulled verbatim from the work, citations after direct quotations and paraphrasing, citation (author’s name and page number in parentheses) before the final punctuation
• Quotations Longer Than Three Typed Lines: No quotation marks, citation in parentheses after final punctuation, indented 1″ (see illustration).
• Adding Last Name/Page Number to Header:
  • 1.  Double click in header area (or click View in the toolbar, then Header/Footer)
  • 2. Align your text to the right side (Click : )
  • 3. Type your last name (no first name, comma, or other punctuation)
  • 4. Hit the spacebar once
  • 5. Go to View in the toolbar, then Header/Footer, then Insert Page Number:
  • 6. Click Close on the Header/Footer toolbar or double click in the body of your paper to return

[This post was WinsomeWiki'd on 4 Jul. 2009.]

From The New Yorker: 20 Under 40: Jonathan Safran Foer

From The New York Times: “Against Meat,” an article adapted from his newest book, Eating Animals.

From PopMatters, a review of Eating Animals.¹

Please read over the materials in preparation for the talk if you would like to attend. (Actually, read over the second article anyway—it is worth your time.) We’ll discuss them in class tomorrow.

Ebert & Video Games

We will continue our discussion of Roger Ebert’s argument tomorrow if time permits. The article we are discussing is here, and a followup, “Okay, kids, play on my lawn” is here.

Kellee Santiago’s talk is below.

1. Thanks, Shadi

…and Nissan’s remix: