Week 13 Assignments

- Week 13 Assignments
  - Each week, I will ask you to do four things:
  - 1/ Post an entry in your Learning Journal. Entries in your Learning Journal (LJ) will most often be focused on Free Writing or Structured Free Writing, which is Free Writing in response to a specific topic, prompt, or question. I will give you a weekly LJ assignment. Please post entries in your LJ HERE. This is a private journal that only you and your instructor can access.
  - 2/ Complete one or more Group Assignments (GA), which will require that you contribute either a BLOG POST and/or to our course Discussion Board. These posts and discussions will be read by our entire class.
  - 3/ Complete one to two Reading and Writing Assignments (RWA), which, unless otherwise specified, you will submit as a separate entry/entries in your Learning Journal HERE.
  - 4/ Check in at least THREE separate times a week and respond at least ONCE to contributions by other student blog posts on the Home page of our course Web site AND to forums on the course Discussion Board
  - WEEK 13 ASSIGNMENTS: DUE DATE: Monday, December 2 at 5PM.
  During Weeks 13, we are going to begin thinking and reading about college research.
  - LEARNING JOURNAL 13
  - For this LJ entry, I’d like you locate and comment on an article from _The New York Times_. In the LJ, I’d like you to explain what the article is about, why you selected the article, and what you liked, disliked, or found interesting about the article. Please make sure that you include a link to the original article so I can read it!
- GROUP ASSIGNMENTS
Group Assignment 18: Questions About College Research

Based on your readings for this week, post any questions that you have about college research

READING AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

Reading and Writing Assignment 17: Introduction to College Research and Evaluating Sources

Part I

Please READ Krause’s chapter “Thinking Critically About Research.”http://www.stevendkrause.com/tprw/chapter1.html

and also read Professor Rodgers’ brief intro to college research here.

Optional reading: Bazerman’s Chapter 10 pages 176-182 is an excellent resource for those needing to know more about writing a college research paper.

Part II

First, please read through the following information about Evaluating Sources and Searching the WWW:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/558/1/

Second, please read through the following information and COMPLETE THE QUIZ that is included on this site:

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html

Third, please write one paragraph in which you explain what you have learned from reading these materials.

Reading and Writing Assignment 18: Choosing a Topic to Research

The first step in any research process is choosing a topic you are interested in researching and which you can feasibly research in the time allotted for your research project. Please look over this list of topics and the readings associated with them and choose one to focus on. If you are not interested in any of the topics, please e-mail me with a topic of your choice. While we will not have time this semester to write a full research essay, we will be doing an overview of sources related to our research topics, and it is very important that your topic not be too broad. After choosing a topic, please complete the following worksheet:

RESEARCH PROJECT WORKSHEET

Topic:

Why I am interested in this topic:

Why this topic is worth researching:

Three questions that I have about the topic:

POSSIBLE TOPICS

1/ Income Inequality in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-lede-t.html?ref=incomeinequality

2/ NYC and Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists: Confronting Climate Change in the Northeast

3/ Food in America

“You Are What You Grow” by Michael Pollan