Week 9 Agenda

Week 9:

• Dates: Thursday, 11/3-Wednesday, 11/9
• Meeting Info:

(ENG 1101 is a course that usually meets for 100 minutes twice a week. Our course is a hybrid format: we meet in person for 100 minutes once per week, Tuesdays from 12:00-1:40pm, in Namm 517, but instead of us meeting a second time for 100 minutes each week, you will do classwork asynchronously on your own. If you prefer to work together, you are welcome to join our student support meeting time, kind of a writing lab/writing studio/study space on Zoom on Thursdays–this week, from 12:30-1:00.)

We did some brainstorming in class last week, and now each have a topic and a the start of a research question. This week we dig in and do some research to find sources to possibly include in the Reflective Annotated Bibliography.

Objectives

• to continue developing a research topic and drafting a research question,
• to review the requirements for Project 2
• to find 5-10 possible sources for the annotated bibliography (think about Anne Lamott and the SFD!)
• to catch up on any missing or late work, especially Project 1!

To-Do This Week

Actions

• Using your research topic, research question, and keywords/search terms, look for sources that you can consider including in your annotated bibliography. Find 5-10 sources that you’ll share on our OpenLab site (see below, in Writing)
• Meet with me if you have questions about Project 2 (or Project 1, too!)
• Check your mid-semester grade

Reading

• Review the presentation “What Is Research?” by Prof. Carrie Hall.
• Watch “Writing an Annotated Bibliography” (City Tech Library).
• Watch the City Tech Library’s Guide to Developing a Research Question
• Review “Annotated Bibliography Breakdown” (Purdue OWL).
• Read the sources you find in doing research

Writing

• Join our discussion about moving through the research process to find sources and refine your question. This is where you’ll share the 5-10 sources you find in doing research and your research question.

In Class

• Considering our readings and topics
• Last week, we used these questions to brainstorm topics, research questions, and keywords/search terms:
  • what’s your major or potential major? or job? or career?
  • what are interests you have that you want to pursue in that field?
  • what are big issues in that field right now?
  • what are important texts in that field?
• What sources did we find? how do we evaluate them?
  • are they recent?
  • are they relevant?
  • are they reliable, both its information and its security?
  • is it from a known source/author?
  • can you verify the information?
  • purpose and intended audience, authority and credibility, accuracy and reliability, currency and timeliness, and objectivity or bias
• How to write an annotation