Week 10 Assignments

• • WEEK  10 ASSIGNMENTS

  During Week 10, we are going to begin thinking and reading about college research.

  • LEARNING JOURNAL 10
    
  • For this  LJ entry, I’d like you locate and comment on an article from _The New York Times_.  In the LJ, I’d like you to explain what the article is about, why you selected the article, and what you liked, disliked, or found interesting about the article.  Please make sure that you include a link to the original article so I can read it!

RWA16: Introduction to College Research and Choosing a Topic  

Part I:  Introduction to College ResearchFor Wednesday, please READ Krause’s chapter “Thinking Critically About Research.”http://www.stevendkrause.com/tprw/chapter1.html  Second, please read through the following information about Evaluating Sources and Searching the WWW:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/558/1/Third, please read through the following information and COMPLETE THE QUIZ that is included on this site:http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html

Part II:  Choosing a Topic

The first step in any research process is choosing a topic you are interested in researching and which you can feasibly research in the time allotted for your research project.

1/ Income Inequality in the U.S. (Ronel, Tyo, Abu, Tyril)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-lede-t.html?ref=incomeinequality

2/ NYC and Climate Change (Shaquille, Tariq,

Union of Concerned Scientists:  Confronting Climate Change in the Northeast

3/ Food in America (Kwasi, Kaviar, Val,

“You Are What You Grow” by Michael Pollan 

4/ Video Games and Behavior (Manuel, Shira, Jermaine)

http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2003/10/anderson.aspx

5/ Video Games and Education (Omar, Raechel)

Using Video Games in Science Instruction

6/Economics of Public Education in the U.S.

http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/no-wonder-bill-gates-can-afford-to-meddle-with-us-education/

http://books.google.com/books?id=3M5lJSoDz_YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=anyon+ghetto&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9HKVT6-jO-WW6AGt57iDBA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=anyon%20ghetto&f=false

Please complete the following worksheet to our next class. You will be handing it in:

Name:

Draft Topic:

Why I am interested in this topic:

Why this topic is worth researching:

Three questions that I have about the topic:

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