Three things you can do today:
- Remove your Google Alert for barter or bartering and add a new one for injuries consumer products. You'll see how the examples returned by this new alert will help you in the next two Short Takes in which we work with statistics about injuries associated with consumer products that send people to the emergency room.
- Read some of the Short Takes on Bartering now available in the Zines. Remember that you can read the ones from your class as well as ones written by students in other sections. Make a note of the paragraphs you think are especially strong and those that appear weak. What features do you notice that put a paragraph in one or the other category?
- Information Literacy Exercise #5: Knowing that you don't know will increase your sensitivity to what you don't know. In college, expect to encounter a lot of new ideas and terms in all your classes. If you don't understand something, learn the resources available to you that can help you build your understanding. Especially, learn how and where to ask questions. For this exercise, if you don't get the joke in any of the cartoons, say so in the discussion group. If you do understand some of the jokes that confuse others, then contribute your explanation.
