Two tasks for this coming Thursday:

(1) Bad and good paragraph

Find two paragraphs in published statistics articles.  They can be two
paragraphs from the same article, or one paragraph each from two
different articles.  One should be a paragraph that you really like,
as a reader: something that makes it relatively easy for you to
consume the technical content.  The other should be a paragraph that
you really don't like: something that makes it hard to get the
technical content.

Highlight each paragraph and upload the article or articles they come
from.

Then write 

(a) three things that make the paragraph you like does, to help the
    reader consume the information the author intended.
 
(b) three things that make the paragraph you don't like difficult.
    Then revise the paragraph to make it easier for a reader to
    consume the information that the author intended.

You can use the commenting feature of classroom salon for saying what
you like and don't like about each paragraph.  Then you can use the
attachment feature (paperclip above and to the left of pdf when you
display it on your screen) to upload the revised parag for (b).

 
(2) Your writing project

Make sure you have the document you want to work on in this class
uploaded and available on classroom salon, for folks to read and
comment on.  Then identify:

(a) A portion of the paper (larger than a sentence, but no larger than
    a section) that you'd like comments on.

(b) A part of the paper that you will be working on while waiting for
    other's comments on (a).

Once you have uploaded the paper, you can click the blue "plus" in the
lower right corner of the screen when you are displaying the pdf in
canvas, to expose the comment side bar.  At the top there is a tab
called "questions".  Put your answers for (a) and (b) as questions if
you can.  Or if that doesn't work, use the attachment feature again to
attach answers to (a) and (b) to your document.

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