Author: Michael Montlack (Page 3 of 6)

TWO DUE DATES: THUR OCT 29 and SAT OCT 31

WHAT TO DO NEXT: DUE BY 2pm THUR OCT 29

1) VIRTUAL LIBRARY VISIT (Strongly suggested you attend)

• ATTEND 2 – 4 pm THUR OCT 29
• Zoom link in previous Announcement/Email.
• I will post reminder Thur morning.

2) WATCH: THE LIBRARY VIDEOS (mentioned in previous Announcement):

https://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/eng1101 

Remember: You are gathering four sources for Annotated Bibliography.

The Librarian will help on Thur. So bring your topics and questions.

3) READ: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ROADMAP (Under Content on Blackboard):  

This shows you outline for the Annotated Bibliography.

WHAT TO DO NEXT: DUE BY 11pm SAT OCT 31

4) READ: “Navigating Genres” by Kerry Dirk

https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/dirk–navigating-genres.pdf

5) WRITE: POST ON BLACKBOARD DISCUSSION BOARD (at least 200 words) in which you introduce your research question. You must cover questions in bold:

• Why are you interested in this question? (Feel free to talk about your own experience with the topic, or to tell an anecdote about your experience with this subject matter)
• What do you expect to find in your research? (And Why?)
• What will you do if you find information that goes completely against what you had expected to find? (Throw it out? Write about it anyway?)
• What genres do you think might give you good information? (What is it about those genres that make them good potential sources?)

Spend some time on this—because this will serve as the first draft of the introduction for your annotated bibliography!

thanks,

Montlack

Hi Everyone,

I will be posting the WHAT TO DO NEXT soon.

For now, I want to let you know I have scheduled a VISIT WITH THE LIBRARY.

This will help you work on the Annotated Bibiography we’re working on.

So I strongly suggest your attending this THUR OCT 29 from 2 – 4 pm via Zoom.

The visit will help you find sources for the ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Before Thursday please watch these short videos on the library site:

https://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/eng1101

• Getting Started
• Evaluating Sources
• Background Research
• Scholarly vs Popular Research
• Research Current Events
• Step by Step Research Activity
• MLA

Remember, the Annotated Bibliography is about finding and evaluating sources for research. We won’t be writing a paper right now. You will be writing the Annotated Bibliography, where you discuss the sources you find. So the library videos and Library visit Thursday will make things easier.

ZOOM INFO FOR THUR 2 – 4 pm:

Monica Berger is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Library Office Hour, Montlack
Time: Oct 29, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 910 4897 7174
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thanks,

Montlack

WHAT TO DO NEXT: DUE BY 11pm FRIDAY OCT 23

Hi Everyone,

WE HAVE COMPLETED UNIT ONE NOW.

YOUR EDUCATION NARRATIVE GRADE IS POSTED in Blackboard Grade Center. 

Goals for the week:

1. Narrow down vague research topics into researchable questions
2. Learn about the library and research
3. Get research questions approved

The most important things about this unit:

• Be curious about your topic. 
• Your question is researchable (not a yes or no question)
• You don’t already know the answer. 

Due by 11pm FRIDAY OCT 23

1) READ: Read at least two (2) classmate posts from last week (either the Baldwin response or the Curiosity response). Do any of these spark your curiosity?

2) POST REPLIES ON BLACKBOARD DISCUSSION BOARD: Comment on at least two posts (from Baldwin or Curiosity discussion boards).

Help them figure out topics to research. If you see someone stuck, but they mention something they were curious about as a child, maybe you can help them find a topic. Or if they responded to something from Baldwin article that they feel they should’ve learned in high school, point to that as a starting point.

If something about their post makes YOU curious, let them know. And please! If you see someone without any comments, be generous and reply to them instead of to the person who already has a lot of replies.

3) WRITE:  Please fill out the  RESEARCH Form. It will take you 30-40 minutes. This will ask questions about your topic and ask you to do about 10 minutes of Internet research, so you should have some topic (even if it’s vague) in mind.

FORM: UNDER CONTENT IN BLACKBOARD (Research Form) 

EMAIL COMPLETED FORM AS A DOC (no links, no pdfs)

• SEND to mikemont17@hotmail.com
• You MUST write 76 in Subject Line of email
• Due by 11pm Fri Oct 23

4) POST: ON BLACKBOARD DISCUSSION BOARD (TOPIC) When you are finished with your form, post your proposed research question (the final question on form). If you’re trying to decide between two questions, post both! You MUST do the form first!

IMPORTANT NOTE: You MUST get your topic approved by me before going to THE NEXT STEP next week! This isn’t so I can tell you what is and isn’t worth knowing about. Everything is worth finding out more about! But some questions will not be the “right size.” We have a few weeks to work on this—so we don’t want something you could answer in 5 minutes or something too big. Keep in mind, you don’t have to finish answering your question—it’s okay if you just find out more and deepen your understanding. 

thanks,

Montlack