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Review Question 1

Which of the following adjectives did we not select as a class to describe a "good" thesis.

Consider your answer. Did we arrive at a good list?

Review Question 2

Which of the following adjectives did we not select as a class to describe a "good" thesis.

Consider your answer. Did we arrive at a good list?

Review Question 3

Which of the following adjectival phrases did we not select as a class to describe a "good" thesis.

Consider your answer. Did we arrive at a good list?

Adjectival Phrases

A "Good" Language

SCENE: 22 January, 2008

• 364 days before the inauguration of President Barack Obama
• The internet was a-boomin' before the Great Recession kicked off in March
• Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" and Rihanna's "Umbrella" were about to be snubbed at the Grammy's
  • Ask me my thoughts on the music industry, but not during class
• Twitter is 2 yr old, Tumblr is 1 yr old, and Instragram is -2 yr old

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group dares to ask...

... and launches HTML5, the greatest and final HTML standard.

Good Languages & Theses

"Other" Languages

MY THESIS

Other Languages

Content Elements

An HTML element can be decomposed into three constituent components:

• Start tag
• Content
• End tag

Void Elements

Some HTML elements with no content will only contain a free-standing tag.

• These have multiple names, I will call them "void elements".
  • C: void main(int argc, const char * argv[])
  • Java: public static void main(String[] args)

Thesis Revisited

We can use HTML5 elements to characterize content, which may include sentences or words, and provide context.

HTML5, as a language intentionally constructed for shared communication, constitutes a valuable tool for teaching writing in a holistic curriculum emphasizing generalizable skills such as peer revision, authorial best practices, and clarity of personal thought.

In this case, the content is a thesis statement.

Adding Tags

Let's use HTML element syntax to identify what type of content we have - a sentence.

HTML5, as a language intentionally constructed for shared communication, constitutes a valuable tool for teaching writing in a holistic curriculum emphasizing generalizable skills such as peer revision, authorial best practices, and clarity of personal thought.

Most HTML styles do not have a sentence type, we simply use it here as a teaching tool.

Conventions

By convention, to make HTML easier to read, for multi-line elements we indent content and give the tags their own lines.

<sentence>

HTML5, as a language intentionally constructed for shared communication,constitutes a valuable tool for teaching writing in a holistic curriculum emphasizing generalizable skills such as peer revision, authorial best practices, and clarity of personal thought.

</sentence>

Most HTML styles do not have a sentence type, we simply use it here as a teaching tool.

Subject and Predicate

While not an HTML requirement, a complete sentence in English must contain a subject and a predicate.

<sentence>

HTML5, as a language intentionally constructed for shared communication, 

constitutes a valuable tool for teaching writing in a holistic curriculum emphasizing generalizable skills such as peer revision, authorial best practices, and clarity of personal thought.

</sentence>

Nested Elements

<sentence>

<subject>

HTML5, as a language intentionally constructed for shared communication, 

</subject>

<predicate>

constitutes a valuable tool for teaching writing in a holistic curriculum emphasizing generalizable skills such as peer revision, authorial best practices, and clarity of personal thought.

</predicate>

</sentence>

Examining Parallelism

... a holistic curriculum emphasizing generalizable skills such as ...

peer revision, authorial best practices, and clarity of personal thought.

Are these the same kind of thing?

• The thesis statement just calls them "skills"

Examining Parallelism

While we figure out what these are, we'll use "skill" for now.

<skill>

peer revision

</skill>

<skill>

authorial best practices

</skill>

<skill>

clarity of personal thought

</skill>

Examining Parallelism

Wait a minute - is that a skill?

<skill>

authorial best practices

</skill>

If not, either our thesis statement or our thinking is unclear!

• This is well-formed HTML (nesting elements)...
• ...but not well-formed English (a list of skills containing a non-skill).

Examining Parallelism

Let's figure out what we are trying to say

<skill>

disambiguated text construction

</skill>

Is this the same kind of thing?

Examining Parallelism

Are these noun phrases?

<nounphrase>

peer revision

</nounphrase>

<nounphrase>

disambiguated text construction

</nounphrase>

Examining Parallelism

Are these noun phrases?

<nounphrase>

<adjectivalphrase>

peer

</adjectivalphrase>

<noun>

revision

</noun>

</nounphrase>

Examining Parallelism

Wait - disambiguated is an adjective* - is this correct?

• RECALL: Adverbs modify adjectives adjectives modify nouns.

<nounphrase>

<adjectivalphrase>

disambiguated text 

</adjectivalphrase>

<noun>

construction

</noun>

</nounphrase>

Examining Parallelism

<nounphrase>

<adjective>

disambiguated

</adjective>

<nounphrase>

text construction

</nounphrase>

</nounphrase>

Examining Parallelism

<nounphrase>

<adjective>

text

</adjective>

<noun>

construction

</noun>

</nounphrase>

Ambiguity

In English, how can determine if "disambiguated text construction" refers to:

• Construction of disambiguated text
• Disambiguated construction of text

Or perhaps

• (disambiguated text) construction
• disambiguated (text construction)

HTML offers a solution of essentially labelled parenthesis.

Your Turn!

You know enough HTML elements ...

• You can use headers.
• You can make paragraphs.

... and Syntax...

• You know about tags.
• You know about content.

to convert your website to be HTML specified.

HOMEWORK

• Create a file index.html (it must be index.html) at top level in your repository.
• Use at least one of each of the following:
  • A header element using

  • A paragraph element using

  • A strong element using

  • A line break element using

Due Wednesday, 01 February!