I believe I've read and responded to each essay draft at this point. If you don't have comments from me, please let me know. Your essay is due for grading by midnight, Friday, the 11th. I hope to have them returned by Monday, not too late. Here's what you need to know:

• Essays should be submitted via email as an attached file. Please use MS Word (saved as a .doc and not .docx), an Open Office Word processing document (you can get this at openoffice.org if you want the only real competitor to MS Word), or any word processing document saved as a .rtf, which is rich text format. You will need to do a "save as" to make these changes if necessary.
• Email your essay to me at bradbATspokanefallsDOTedu
• The top of your page should look like this:
  

  Your name

  Instructor's last name

  Class Title/Name

  Due Date

  Title That Predicts Essay Development

  Notice that the material is all double spaced, as should be the whole of your essay, and that the title is centered, with the first, last, and important words in between capitalized. DO NOT underline or use quote marks in your title.

• Either underline or italicize the title of the book: UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of [Disinformation]. Use the same capitalization guidelines that you used with your title. This is Modern Language Association (MLA) format.
• When you provide a quote or paraphrase from the book, this is how you make note of it: Jackson and Jamieson write that "Such puffery is so common that much of the time we aren't even fooled" (45). Notice the quote marks are before the citation, there is no 'p' or anything of that sort in the citation, and the period is at the end, because the citation is part of the sentence.
• Be sure, because many have missed this, that one of the chapters, the chapter to which you respond, is included as part of the assignment. There must be a full summary of one chapter as part of the assignment. It's also a good idea to signal this to your reader so they know what you are doing.

I'll leave it there for now. If you have any questions regarding your essay and my comments, feel free to contact me.