Meetings, Assignments & Research

Today, you began your Works Cited page in the wiki. As you continue your research, update your Works Cited page with any sources that you find. This will make it easier at the conclusion of this project.

Many of you struggled with a cohesive and well-defined thesis for today. We went over in class what makes a good thesis, or, more appropriately, what makes a good research question. Hacker helped with narrowing a research question (318).

Now comes the hard part: RESEARCH.

MEETINGS
Next week, we will not meet at all. Each of you have signed up for a 15-minute meeting with me on either Monday (4/13) or Tuesday (4/14). (See the calendar on the right for a list of times. We will discuss Essay 1 in this meeting as well as your research project so come prepared to talk.

Our in-class essay is postponed until May 5th.

On Thursday, we have no class meeting so you can conduct some research in the library and prepare blog posts for all of this researching and updating.

ASSIGNMENT DUE MONDAY (4/20), 5PM
Begin performing your research over the next week. In order to keep track of your findings, you'll need to write a blog post assessing each of your resources (a single blog post for each one). In your assessment, highlight how this source will be useful to your idea. You need to find the following types of resources (required!):

• book (use a chapter or section)
  
• magazine article
  
• journal article
  
• newspaper article
• personal interview
  

At least one of the following:

• video
• blog
• images
• podcasts

By the time you finish this assignment, you should have 6 blog entries. You can add more later, but for now, find these 6.

Do not rely solely on the Internet. Go to our library. Email the librarian for help. Make sure you have a direction for your research, otherwise, you'll be running around everywhere.