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We're going to do an activity in which, given a scenario, you pick the best source of information IN YOUR OPINION! I'm not going to say you're wrong as long as you can reasonably back up your choice.

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Using whatever device you want, navigate to http://www.menti.com and type in the code 58 21 20

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H.P. Lovecraft is a very influential 20th century horror writer. He had interesting ideas, but much of his writing is problematic. Your professor has presented you with a research assignment about Lovecraft and the impact of racism in his writing.

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Which of the following would be the best source of information?

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There Goes the Neighborhood: Chaotic Apocalypse and Monstrous Genesis in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Street," "The Horror at Red Hook," and "He" on JSTOR

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Jay McRoy, There Goes the Neighborhood: Chaotic Apocalypse and Monstrous Genesis in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Street," "The Horror at Red Hook," and "He", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 13, No. 4 (52) (2003), pp. 335-351

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The World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention every fall, have been around for almost 40 years. The trophy for such categories as Novel, Short Fiction and Anthology is a caricatured bust of H.P. Lovecraft, author of such classics of weird fiction as "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Call of Cthulhu." Lovecraft is a beloved figure in pop culture, and an influence on everyone from the Argentinian metafictionist Jorge Luis Borges to the film director Guillermo del Toro, as well as untold numbers of rock bands and game designers.

But not everyone who wins a "Howard" likes the idea of keeping Lovecraft's face around the house. Nnedi Okorafor, who won the WFA for best novel in 2011 ("Who Fears Death"), wrote a blog post about her discomfort with the trophy after a friend showed her a racist poem that Lovecraft wrote in 1912. Enough dissatisfaction has accumulated to inspire another writer, Daniel Jose Older, to petition the WFA's administrators to change the award to a bust of the late Octavia Butler, an African-American author more commonly identified with science fiction.

Whether or not Butler would be the right choice (other commenters have suggested a non-portrait design), what's most surprising about the ensuing debate over the proposal is how defensive it has made some members of Lovecraft's extensive following. The fuss has accentuated some of the shortcomings of our increasingly fan-driven culture.

To anyone who's read all of Lovecraft's fiction plus even a smattering of biographical material, his venomous racism is self-evident; it's right there on the page. (For a more detailed examination of the author's prejudices as expressed in both work and life, see Phenderson Djeli Clark's excellent essay "The 'N' Word Through the Ages: The 'Madness' of H.P. Lovecraft" at Racialicious.) A writer of intense, morbid and cloistered passions, Lovecraft expressed a pervasive disgust with physical existence itself, as well as the cosmic dread for which he has often been celebrated. Yet he reserved his most intimate revulsion for those human beings he regarded as, for example, "a bastard mess of stewing Mongrel flesh without intellect, repellent to the eye, nose and imagination," to quote just one typical description (in this case of New York's Chinatown), from his letters.

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It's OK to admit that H.P. Lovecraft was racist

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The World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention every fall, have been around for almost 40 years. The trophy for such categories as Novel, Short Fiction and Anthology is a caricatured bust of H.P. Lovecraft, author of such classics of weird fiction as "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Call of Cthulhu."

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.

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The home team (wherever you're from) won the big game! However, the ensuing celebration has become violent, and partiers clash with the local police. You want to know what is happening, and you are having difficulty reaching your friends and family there.

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Which of the following would be the best source of information?

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A relevant book that discusses the history of your hometown.

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Before you vote in each scenario, please look over the potential sources linked here and be ready to discuss your choice

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As you've chosen sources for the two scenarios, you've had reasons for the choices you made. Please list below at least three things you look at when choosing a source, whether it's for an academic paper or something in your daily life.

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Background image by Paul Henning and retrieved from http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pullman/id/1410

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During this presentation you will get to know me, but there may be observers present who I won't get to meet with today. I would appreciate it if you would type your name below with a fun fact about yourself, but there is no pressure to do so.

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relevance
source/perspective
shit

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is source online

is source timely

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-Authority of the writer/researcher/author; do they have the background?
-How does the date relate to the topic?
-Mmmmmm I want some lunch now.

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1. publication date
2. author
3. if I have access to it

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timeliness
bias

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multiple perspectives - Erin's idea obvi

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multiple perspectives - Erin's idea obvi

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Subject
Bibliography

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Currency
Author
Relevance

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Date, author's experience and perspective

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Date, author's experience and perspective

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Timeliness

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date it was written, source it was from, how long the article is

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date it was written, source it was from, how long the article is

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currency
is it on topic

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currency
credibility of author/source
works cited list - sharing sources

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How recent it is.
Where's it's published.
How it relates to my topic.

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relevance to topic

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Love, Erin

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Jessica

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My cat loves to fetch a ball!

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marsha