JCM212/Outline a book

This in-class exercise is not a group project, but you may ask for advice from your fellow group members. Using the book you brought to class (or, alternatively, Brett Mills's The Sitcom): Template:Gallery

1. Go to Blackboard, look in the "Tests and Assignments" folder open the assignment titled, "In-class Exercise: Outlining a Book."
2. Click "Write Submission" to open a window where you may type your submission directly in Blackboard,
   • Or you may write your submission elsewhere and choose "Browse My Computer" to find that file later and then upload it.
3. Create your submission, which must include:
   1. A properly formatted citation of your book--using Chicago, MLA, or another style guide
      • For example: Mills, Brett. The Sitcom. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
      • The Chicago Manual of Style is available online. Look for the "Bibliography entries" for books on [this Webpage.
   2. Your book's table of contents
   3. An outline of at least 10 pages from the beginning of the book.
      • You may choose 10 pages from the book's introduction or its first chapter--whichever you find more interesting.
      • The outline should include at least one bullet point from each paragraph.

Post-exercise free-time activities

• Put on headphones and watch the Fresh Off the Boat episode on Blackboard.
• Start reading, for 3/28 the keywords:
  • representation, ideology, identity, othering, appropriation

Bibliography

1. Alternative assignment: Mills, Brett. The Sitcom. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

External links

• The Chicago Manual of Style, http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html .