Blog Prompt

Hello alls,

Your blog prompt, due TONIGHT (Monday 1 Aug) AT MIDNIGHT, is to create an outline for your research paper.  Look at what you have so far, and see how it fits into the formulas/outlines we discussed on Friday.  Post the outline, including specific points and how they are contributing to your thesis, and tlak about what you may need to still include, what you may need to cut, etc.  If you already have an outline, great--post it, and talk about what may need to change still.

I'll see you each at conferences and in class on Wednesday!

-cbh

IP Conferences

Below is a schedule of conferences for the next few days.  Please be on time to your conference.  I am going to keep a strict time schedule, so if you are late then I'm afraid we'll either have to reschedule or you'll have to have a shorter conference.

Monday 1 August in CLASSROOM

10:00  Alyssa P.

10:15  Katie

10:30  Amanda

10:45  Alyssa D.

11:00  Capri

11:15  Esmerelda

11:30  Jake A.

11:45  Charity

12:00  Bryan

12:15  Lucy

12:30  Caleb

12:45  Melissa

Tuesday 2 August in 3004 JKB

12:00  Jacob T.

12:15  Brannon

12:30  Alison

12:45  Emily

1:00    Kyle

1:15    Shannon

1:30    Amy

IP Thesis

Hello alls,

Don't forget your blog prompt for tonight:  write out a tentative IP thesis statement.  It doesn't have to be something you'll necessarily stick with, but it has to be enough to direct your research for the rest of this week.  The idea is that you'll specify/narrow your topic as you go.  But in order to start, of course, you need a direction.

Also, don't forget that we'll be in the Library on Wednesday AND Friday (2232 HBLL).  See you there--you'll hopefully get a lot of research done this week!

-cbh

IP conference schedule

Hello class,

Here's the schedule for IP con fences with me, this Wednesday and Thursday in 3004 JKB (same place as always).

Wednesday:
11:00 Ashlyn
11:15 Sidney
11:30 Abby
11:45 Liz
12:00 Madi
12:15 Molly
12:30 Sara
12:45 Taylor
1:00
1:15
1:30 Connor

Thursday:
9:00 Candace
9:15 Kim
9:30 Megan B
9:45 Nick
10:00 Meghan S
10:15 Andrew
10:30 Natalie
10:45 Kendall

This of course means that there will be no official class on Thursday--just conferences. Also, remember that Friday is a Research/Writing day--it will be IN THE LIBRARY, 2232 (the same room we've been meeting in).

Also, Punctuation 5 will be due on Friday, so be sure to bring the to class (Claire and Sydney--I gave Ashlyn new copies of the exercise, so be sure to get them from her and complete them before Friday).

As always, if one of those times doesn't work for you, email me and we'll set something up.

5 Background Sources

Hello alls,

As you should be aware, you have an assignment due by midnight tomorrow--5 background sources.  While I think the syllabus says to email them to me, please post them to your blog instead (it makes things much easier).  Repeat:  do not email the 5 background sources to me--instead, post them on your blog (if you've already emailed them to me, which some of you have, that is fine, but I would like you to post it to your blog as well).

However, you are not required to comment on these posts.  And, since no other posts were assigned this week, you are not required to comment at all on any blogs this week (so this is a week off from commenting, as it were).

Now, about the sources.  I don't want anything fancy--not even MLA format in this case.  Just give me the name of the article/entry/whatever, along with the name of the author (if there is one), and the URL (if there is one).  Thats really all I'm looking for.  No summary, no analysis, just the source itself.

And I'm looking for BACKGROUND sources here--which means you probably won't cite them explicitly in your paper.  Background sources are more for broadening your knowledge of the topic you are researching in preparation for writing.  Examples of background sources include nearly everything Rita showed you on Friday in the library, as well as encyclopedia entries, and even Wikipedia (that said, I don't want ALL your background sources to be Wikipedia articles--I'll accept a maximum of two Wikipedia entries, the others have to be from other places).  The idea behind background research is, in addition to broadening your knowledge of the topic, to also point you in the direction of more specific and/or useful and/or credible sources--as was mentioned on Friday, the bibliographies of these articles are usually great places to find real sources to use (including Wikipedia entries--they usually have fairly credible bibliographies).

So--that's the idea.  5 background sources, posted to your blog by midnight tomorrow (Thursday).  No summary, no fluff, just the sources themselves.

Happy Information Hunting!

-cbh

IP Group Topic Conferences and Blog Prompt

Hello class,

Here is the schedule for Group Topic Conferences.  Remember, we will NOT be having class on Tuesday (instead I will be meeting with those who signed up for those slots).  Also note that while the Tuesday conferences are IN OUR REGULAR CLASSROOM, the Wednesday conferences are IN (OR NEAR) MY OFFICE.

Tuesday 8 March:

10:00  Nick, Taylor, Madi
10:15  Meghan S., Michelle, Candace
10:30  Natalie, Kendall, Megan B.


Wednesday 9 March:

11:00  Ashlyn, Sydney
11:15  Abby, Kimberly
11:30  Liz, Molly, Sara


For those of you who weren't able to sign up for a time, or who couldn't meet me at any of the specified times, please email me and we'll work something out.  I would prefer to meet with all of you at once, to retain to "collaborative" feel of the conference.

Also, remember your blog post due TOMORROW at NOON.  This post should simply be a tentative thesis for your Issues Paper (you may use the thesis generator we used in class on Thursday--you can find that under Course Materials on Blackboard).  I just want to get a gist of where each of you are going in your research.

Have a great weekend!  Good luck researching, and I'll see you all next week.  Let me know if you have any questions, as always.

-cbh

Blog Prompt: Issues Paper Invention

Hello alls,

So I know I'm posting this rather late (technically you have 10 minutes to get your blog post up...sorry!), and it looks like most of you have already posted yours, but here is the prompt anyway just in case you were wondering/had forgotten/whatever:

Write, essentially, a brainstorm post on a potential topic (or potential topics, plural) for your Issues Paper, relating them in some useful/meaningful way to globalization.  You can do this in whatever way works best for you--webbing, brainstorming, freewriting, lists, whatever.  Good luck with invention, and I'll see you all on Thursday (where, incidentally, we'll talk more about invention...!).

-cbh