Author Archives: Anne Leonard

Wrapping up LIB 1201

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It’s been a great semester – thanks for all of your questions, attention, patience, enthusiasm, and hard work this semester. Group documentation project presentations take place today and Wednesday. Be sure that each group posts the link to their project to this site by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20. Each student should submit a self and group evaluation to me by the end of the day Wednesday:

Evaluate your work on this project and the work of the other students in your group.

Each student in your group is responsible for writing an evaluation of her/his own work on this project and the work of others in her/his group. Please answer all of the following questions in your evaluations:

  • Self evaluation (minimum 200 words):

What project tasks did you complete on your own? How would you describe the amount of effort you put into your work on this project? What do you think your strengths were in your work on this project? How could you improve your work on this project?

  • Group evaluation (minimum 200 words):

What project tasks did you complete as a group? Was the work shared evenly between group members? How effectively did your group work together? What do you think the strengths were of the group’s work on this project? How could the group improve its work on this project?

Best of luck with finals, everyone! Enjoy the summer.

~Prof. Leonard

Next week – presentations!

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Next Monday, May 18 and Wednesday, May 20 are the final days we meet. Two groups will present on Monday, May 18 and three will present on Wednesday, May 20. Groups will have about 20-30 minutes for group work at the beginning of class on Monday.

Presenting on Monday, May 18:

  1. Elfatih & Steeve
  2. Alessandra, Kelly, Jay

Presenting on Wednesday, May 20:

  1. Adonas, Jonathan, Daniel
  2. Wil & Orany
  3. Pavel, Crystal, Kendrick

Each group should assign one member to get to our classroom, A543, at least 10 minutes early to set up the presentation in advance.

Good luck, everyone! As always, get in touch with your questions about the project & presentation.

~Prof. Leonard

Progress reports for online documentation projects

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One person from each group should fill out the progress report in class today. On Wednesday, we’ll determine the order of presentations, so groups should discuss which day they would like to present: Monday, May 18 (2 groups) or Wednesday, May 20 (3 groups). Questions about the project or presentation? Please get in touch!

~Prof. Leonard

Looking ahead to May 11 – 13

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Next week groups will work on their documentation projects in A540, the library’s eclassroom. On Monday, May 11 all groups will submit a short progress report, and on Wednesday, May 13 we will determine the order of group presentations, which will take place on May 18 and May 20. The final research paper is due on Monday, May 11 by the beginning of class – good luck, everyone, and don’t wait until Sunday night to contact me with any questions.

~Prof. L.

The online documentation project – guidelines & groups

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Today we reviewed the Online Documentation Project guidelines and formed working groups; each group of 2 or 3 students will create a research tool, an information resource, or a research game. Wednesday will be a group work day and we’ll meet in A540, the library’s e-classroom, so groups can make use of the computers there to work on their OpenLab project sites.

Groups:

Research Tool: Crystal, Pavel, Kendrick

Research Game:

  1. Kelly, Alessandra, Jay
  2. Adonas, Jonathan, Daniel
  3. Elfatih, Steeve

Information Resource: Wil, Orany

Don’t forget – the final version of the research paper is due on Monday, May 11. Questions about either assignment? Get in touch!

~Prof. Leonard

Summary of today, and looking ahead to May

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Today we reviewed your blog posts on process documentation, critiquing the quality and thoroughness of the documentation examples. Next week we’ll start the group documentation project and organize into working groups; I’ll distribute guidelines for the documentation project and for the group presentation then. For Monday, think about what kind of documentation project you would like to work on: a research tool, an information resource, or an educational game.

Final research paper guidelines are now available on the course site; refer to them or ask me if you have questions about the final paper. The final version of the research paper is due Monday, May 11 by 10 a.m.

~Prof. Leonard

Review of today, and reading/blogging for Wednesday, April 29

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Today we discussed styles and standards for documentation & citation. You created your own citation styles by identifying the most important parts of a citation. Several elements were common to most: author, title, date, and source. On Wednesday we’ll return to process documentation. Please read Badke Ch. 9 and browse Purdue OWL’s APA and MLA Style sections. Write one process documentation blog post in response to this prompt:

 Irene Edge describes process documentation as “a thorough conveyance of thoughts and processes.” Select one example of process documentation in any format, read it, and write one 100-word blog post in which you describe, summarize and critique it. Does it document thoroughly and completely the process that it claims to document? If you choose a video, please embed the video into your blog post so that we can all view it easily.

Be prepared to discuss your example in class. Instructions for embedding a video into a blog post on the OpenLab are here. You may find it helpful to review the Edge and Robinson articles to guide your selection of a good quality example of process documentation. Questions about this final blogging assignment? Get in touch.

On Wednesday I’ll distribute final research paper guidelines.

~Prof. Leonard

Summary of today, and assignment for Monday, April 27

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Today we discussed practical applications of documentation, including process documentation.  We quickly reviewed the Edge and Robinson articles, and we’ll return to them next week for the process documentation blogging assignment (details next week)

The draft of your research paper is due on Monday, April 27, emailed to me as a draft by the beginning of class. I’ll distribute guidelines for the final paper on Monday and post them to the OpenLab.

Good luck, everyone!

~Prof. Leonard

Summary of today, and reading/blogging for Wednesday, April 22

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Today we discussed documentation and citation from the book excerpts by Hauptman and by  Bugeja and Dimitrova, and also reviewed the research paper writing process. We watched a video on how to use the Notebook feature of EasyBib. More EasyBib tutorials are available here.

On Wednesday we’ll continue our documentation discussion, moving into the practical applications of documentation. Please read the following 2 articles:
Edge, “Write it Down!”
Robinson, “Documentation Dilemmas”
Your blogging assignment is to comment on one or 2 of your classmates’ blog posts totaling at least 100 words. The research paper draft is due by 10 a.m. on Monday, April 27 and the research paper final is due by 10 a.m. on Monday, May 11.

~Prof. Leonard

Research paper writing wrap-up and blogging & reading assignments for Thursday and Monday

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Today we discussed writing an academic research paper. Slides from today are available here. The writing prompts are adapted from the book They Say, I Say, available at the City Tech library (2014 and older editions available).

On Monday we will discuss the rationale for documentation and citation. Please read the following: Hauptman, pp. 7-13 (distributed in class; if you missed class you can get it on reserve in the library with this call number: PN171 .F56 H38 2008) and Bugeja and Dimitrova, “What, in fact, causes footnotes to vanish?” pp.33-39 from their book Vanishing Act (download from the City Tech library using the barcode from your college ID to authenticate). Write one 100-word reading response blog post for those articles by 10 a.m. on Monday, April 20. Because I overlooked assigning 2 articles before Break, there is another blog post due tomorrow (not today as the outline was due). Please read the following 2 articles: Fister, The Devil in the Details and Grimmelman, The Google Dilemma and write a 100-word reading response blog post, due by 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 16.

We watched a video showing how to track changes in Word:

 

I’ll try to return your outlines by the end of the week. Questions about upcoming assignments? Get in touch.

~Prof. Leonard