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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2530 - Various Research Project Preparation Yummy Goodnesses



A Sense of Doubt blog post #2530 - Various Research Project Preparation Yummy Goodnesses

And so, LUCKILY, I have a treasure trove of valuable lessons on video to share with my students.

When I moved classes online this week, I decided to saddle them with three additional videos to make up for a loss of instruction.

They have to do a translation process as the videos, from SPRING 2020, have different requirements, which may make students SALTY that two years ago students had to write fewer pages and find/use fewer sources. AND YET, students should know that I made the changes for THEIR OWN GOOD as I talk about fifteen pages being the "sweet spot" for content, and I am right.

I think the videos are pretty good and informative despite the differences in the course, now, two years later.

In video #09, I think I am even pretty funny with "this is how learning happens" and "hey, vicious rumor, we're trying to educate you."

I am still re-watching the videos because I am going to give them a quiz on the videos and the research project.

And now I have just found that ZOOM was not doing transcripts yet... SIGH. So, I really do have to rewatch my videos CLOSELY and not just on my phone when I am making oatmeal for breakfast.

ANYWAY, here's the links, and below my picture, there's lots of notes and the pod players plus the usual extra stuff: DEVO!

ENJOY.

Video 08 - English 102 Starting Research pt1 and the Working Bibliography

Video 09 - English 102 Research Project Overview

English 102 Vid13 Research WB Lenses CREDO VIDEO



Greetings writers, Here's assignment #4 and some videos I am reusing that I made in the Spring. Often I even acknowledge that  I might reuse these videos, so do the translation, especially if I am talking about a simple one part subject, like "anxiety," as opposed to the two parters you're working on.

Submit notes that are at least two pages strong if not longer. Bonus points?? Possible.

Include the secret words. I do not do that with you, but they are included to check that you are watching. :-)

Let’s go spelunkling!!! (photo from APE CAVE)

ENGLISH 102 - NOTES AND DEAL FOR VIDEO #8-9

 

Greetings writers!!

 

Two videos collected together in this assignment and over eighty minutes of yummy, educational goodness. The sets of videos for the week are more and more like a week of CLASSES to attend and absorb as part of the thing we do called learning. Fair warning, I get extra goofy in the second video (Revolution #9); it’s probably the take away curry.

What me worry?

Are we not men? We are DEVO.

Yeah, so these two videos will be one assignment. Make notes. And then post them. I will give you a week. This one’s more important so I will be making it worth more points.

 

I give you some of my notes here. But first...

 

NO SECRET WORDS!! I forgot to do secret words. So just notes. However, for possible extra points answer these questions.

    

Bonus Question for VIDEO 08 - For what is the author of the first library source famous?

 

Bonus Question for VIDEO 09 - What did I just eat for dinner?

Or (since I just gave that one away) what does AMBER call the project? Text I found and have since edited out and so now it only exists in this video?

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1565 - De-evolution: Know the Truth - a Musical Monday Mix for 1906.03

VIDEO 08 - English 102 Starting Research pt1 and the Working Bibliography

Video 09 - English 102 Research Project Overview

 

NOTES FOR VIDEOS EIGHT AND NINE

 

STARTING RESEARCH

- THINK of the scope of the project and topics that you MAY wish to explore.

 

- IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH

- put in the hours - 20+ hours

- The research informs the writing

- The research may shape the argument - the value of being neutral

- The research creates the content

- lenses

- topics

- scope

- This class exists to get you thinking about sources and their value. To do this work, you have to find and evaluate sources.

 

- AS SUCH, a working bibliography needs to be a playground for a lot of sandbox structures some of which become full size castles and others that return to granular form.

 

- Let’s work an example

 

- Take an example: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS

 

- Good research question: is there life on other planets?

- Simply a yes or no question, right? But in creating a project and ultimately an ARGUMENT, we need to make the answer more complex for instance this distinction -

 

just “organic” life vs. INTELLIGENT life

 

- Our goal is to gather information to establish the scope of the project and if we need to broaden or narrow

 

- show GOOGLE SEARCH

 

SEARCH RESULTS REVIEW

 

- Nasa’s claim - life found by 2020

- exoplanets

- search with climate

- search outside the solar system

 

- Always review the WIKIPEDIA page

 

- rant on WIKIPEDIA......... :-)

 

- review

- look at “see also”

- look at references

 

ASSEMBLING THE WORKING BIB

CATEGORIES

 

- Start to gather sources and sort them into categories on your working bib page.

 

- When I do it, I just dump promising links on a page and then review them in batches. As I identify ones I might use, I just convert to full MLA references and at least rough draft the annotation. I dump others into a “maybe later” category for materials that I MIGHT use if I need to inject my work with more sources

 

- Most students just use the INTERNET and though the Internet is convenient and rich with content, it’s full of unreliable and actually completely false “information.”

 

- we must rely heavily on use of the school library, then, for obvious reasons.

 

- At some point, I shift to the LIBRARY for part of my searching. You don’t want to wait TOO LONG to do this part.

 

I am going to show a quickie of library searching but our full LIVE ZOOM MEETING will happen Monday May 4th and so it will be more in depth.

 

Quickie library - peek - quick look at scholarly also

 

 

AT THIS STAGE, we start to think about EVALUATING SOURCES and our thought process as you begin to gather sources

    

and so...

 

RESEARCH - Amber Lemiere

https://lemierecomp.weebly.com/research-new.html

         

click tabs - quick review of all

- we will go into greater depth on each of these

 

Finding Sources

 

Evaluating Credibility

 

Source Types

 

Overcoming Obstacles

 

Back to some more searching and add sources to

 

WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

and show updating discussion, also known as a DB for Discussion Board.

 

End video #8

 

VIDEO #9 - RESEARCH PROJECT OVERVIEW

 

- Look at Curious Researcher - week by week process

 

- WE HAVE FOUR WEEKS!!

 

- the purpose

- deadlines

- length

- numbers of sources and types

- argument structure!

- Focus

- Lenses

- sources and documentation

 

- opening - multi-P intro

- VOICE - future RN

- ending - killer last line

 

- annotated bibliography

- stages for work

 

- main things: top ten, SIP, etc.

 

- EXPECTATIONS - explain one-by-one - rubric

 

- grading rough draft (40%), final (40%) anbib (20%) of 60% of course grade

 

- show rubric for project and anbib

 

 

 

 

Some IMAGEs from -

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1112 - Throwback Thursday and Trip Report for 1809.06

last two from -

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #976 - Comic Book News, Dog Walks, and Recovery - Throwback Thursday 1803.08

image from -

 

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1424.html

 

Greetings writers!!

 

“He Got Game”

 

This week’s music - REDEMPTION AND REPARATIONS

 

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1424 -  Reparations and Redemption - a Musical Monday Mix for 1901.14

Here’s my pitch to either look at this post linked above for the music alone but also because it would make a good research subject, though I am pleased with most of the choices. Check it out; it may inflame a passion in your heart of hearts.

 

Think about it.

 

 

INTRO

don’t forget secret word

 

stories of last semester

- anxiety

- AI

- life on other planets

- JFK assassination

 

 

ENGLISH 102 - NOTES AND DEAL FOR VIDEO #13

    

 

 

RESEARCH PROCESS AGENDA

- Define subject

- Look for keywords - working knowledge

- questions, word clouds, brain storming

- Research: general encyclopedias, Internet, Library Databases

- key word search, find more key words, search again, repeat^##

- what is out there? - overview of studies

- organize - categories, lenses, perspectives

- working thesis or multiple possible theses - reserve judgment

- claims and counter-claims (the worthy opponent)

- variety of source types (Amber’s page)

- considering credibility (bias, assumptions, credentials)

- annotating: summarizing, evaluating

- START DRAFTING

- KEEP RESEARCHING

- PLAN - some kind of outline

- KEEP DRAFTING

- KEEP RESEARCHING

 

IMPORTANT MODULES

 

CREDO MODULES

- Getting Started with Research

- Searching for Information

- Pre-Test - Information Literacy

- Sources of Information

- Evaluating Information

 

NON-CREDO  - (more on these next week)

- Rhetorical Process

- Thesis Statements

 

 

Today - mostly - Getting Started with Research plus

 

Amber’s pages

 

https://lemierecomp.weebly.com/research-new.html

 

with peeks at the others - all peeks now

source types and evaluating sources in a future video (next week)

 

GOAL: working bibliography - research - define

 

 

First, let’s look at three samples

- LBGTQ REP

- Porn addiction

- Death and Funerals

I made a module for samples and a page for these samples:

Working Bibliography Samples

 

Look at three levels of work and organization

- annotations complete and thoughtful

 

- MUST sort WB and categorize sources with thoughts of variety, credibility, claim and counter claim, primary and secondary, meeting requirements, official, expert, etc.

 

SO HOW do we get there?

 

GETTING STARTED WITH RESEARCH

 

- Good research question - have more than one?

- Always be skeptical of canned content and ASK ME

- Immediate puzzle - values based question vs “legitimate research question”

- What’s the problem here?

 

- second element - not collectable - I disagree

Sure, we cannot answer the question- but is that the point?

- You are to make an argument

 

- Third - has already been answered - sort of - we like unique

But look at my three samples

- Look at the ideas being pursued in this class

 

INFORMATION LITERACY

- FILTER TONS OF INFORMATION

- Think critically about it - best sources

- workplace - can you synthesize and disseminate

- PATTERN RECOGNITION - look for patterns

- key takeaways

 

Some of these quizzes are WHACK - do not take them too seriously

Research process

- General area of interest - thesis?

- concept maps - ideas & keywords

- Thesis statements need to answer your research question and explain how or why...

... um, yeah but

- not stuck with research question

 

SEEMS to present research for persuasive writing SEPARATELY from research in general

TUTORIAL - RESEARCH FOR PERSUASIVE WRITING

 

rhetorical triangle - ethos, pathos, logos

etc. - show this tutorial and riff

SUPPORTING EVIDENCE

- examine data collection technique

PATHOS - stories are powerful - Tyrion told us that

But stories alone are not enough

ETHOS - consider reliability

 

THINK VARIETY

But know what it is that you found

Do not mistake opinion for fact

be savvy about how facts are expressed and where they derive

CORROBORATE FACTS

 

Is there more of what you consider counter claims?

Change your position?

 

Not crazy about the “Creating a Research Plan” video

 

“Framing a problem” is a good video

- have an open mind

- frame and re-frame your main question or questions

- think critically

 

SEARCHING INFORMATION module is very good and area that we have covered in part before

 

 

........and so .............

 

...... on ward........

 

........... more from AMBER’S PAGES in the next video.

 

 

In solidarity, safety, health, and wellness,

peace in our times,

-chris tower, LCC Lang&Lit faculty,

your friend in learning

“Always look on the bright side”

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/


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