1. Many of you need to include visuals and a brief history/demographic snapshot of your neighborhood on your commute page. This doesn’t have to be lengthy, and you should feel free to include a quote from the 1939 Federal Writers Guide for the history part of it. If you’re struggling to find sources for this, email me–I can help.

Those of you who need to include some demographic data in your commute should go to the library databases, select Social Explorer, and choose the “Reports” tab. You’ll have the option of using data in the American Community Survey (ACS), 2006-2010. There, you can find options that include race, country of origin, sex, income, etc., and you can easily narrow down the geographic area to the census tract level (you can find the correct tracts by zooming in on New York in Social Explorer’s map section–pick the ACS tract function if you want to use ACS data, or the Census tract function for Census data).

Two good models for how to do your commute page are Anastasia’s and Ivan’s pages.

2. Over the weekend, you should fix your citations the way Jill showed you in class today.

3. I’d like each of you to read someone else’s commute page and comment on it. If someone else has already commented on that page, move on until you find one that has no comments (if everything is taken, then you can double up). Make sure to suggest changes, corrections (even to stuff like grammar, structure, etc.), and ways to improve the post.

4. Make sure to upload your autosaved drafts so that I know what the most recent version of your work is.

5. Let me and/or Jill know about any new transfer point pages that go up after class today.