Updated post-Sandy Schedule 11/5-12/19

Mon 11/5 Searching: internet
Reading: Badke Ch. 6 (all) and Ch. 7 part 7.7 (pp.161-162);
Viewing: Common Craft web search strategies video
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; see blog for prompt

Wed 11/7 Searching: library catalogs
Reading: Badke Ch. 5 pp. 89-93, Library of Congress Classification Outline
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; see blog for prompt

Mon 11/12   Searching: article databases
Reading: Badke Ch. 5 pp. 94-120
Assignment: Comment on one or 2 blog posts totaling 100 words

Using Information and Media

Wed 11/14 Evaluation of sources in any format: how & why to evaluate
Reading: UC Berkeley, Cornell; Grimmelman, Fister
DUE: Annotated bibliography

Mon 11/19 Writing an academic research paper
Reading: Badke Ch. 10 and Appendix 1 pp. 196-203
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post

Wed 11/21 Rationale for documentation and citation
Reading: Hauptman pp. 7-13
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
DUE: Research paper outline

Mon 11/26 Documentation: standards, methods and styles for citing text and non-text media
Reading: Badke Ch. 9, browse Purdue OWL’s APA and MLA Style sections
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post

Wed 11/28 Documentation: practical applications
DUE: Research paper draft

Mon 12/3 Documentation: standards, methods and styles for practices and processes
Reading: Edge, Robinson
Assignment: Find one example of process documentation in any format, read it, and write one blog post in which you describe, summarize and critique it. Be prepared to discuss your example in class!
Introduce group project & form groups

Wed 12/5 Group project work
DUE: Research paper final version

Mon 12/10 Group project work

Wed 12/12 Group project work

Mon 12/17 Group project work

Wed 12/19 Student Presentations

Friday 12/21 Student Presentations
DUE before the beginning of class: Online documentation project; self and group evaluations