Library session: What stands out from the library session on 10/31?
- know the source
- know how reliable the source can be
- biased vs unbiased
- sometimes we don’t get the information directly from the source
- +sometimes information comes to us instead of us going to get it–we need to question it.
- academic source–what is it, do we want to use it, why?
- research article, from a research journal
- usually written by professors, graduate students, other academic workers, researchers at related or non-academic institutions
- questions about research as you’re doing Project #4 or any other work?
- do more research!
- ask a librarian! go to the Reference Desk, 4th floor of the library at City Tech
- ask your professors!
- Subject guides (eg COMD Subject Guide) on the library website: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu or cityte.ch
- does the author get paid? does it matter?
Project #3 drafts:
- In one or two sentences, what is your Project #3 about?
- What claim or argument do you make? this is the So What of your project.
- what is the juxtaposition? what are the two elements you’re comparing?
- are you doing all the things that the Project #3 assignment asks for?
- when someone reads your draft or listens to you talk about your project, what do you want them to tell you?
- what is the claim or argument (high order)
- what stands out or is significant about the juxtaposition
- does the claim or argument make sense (high order)
- comparison details: enough, too much, not enough?
- make sure you quote 2 passages and incorporate them into your argument about your juxtaposition
- questions that they want to know more about
- grammar (low order)
- sentence structure
- vocabulary
