CL 3/31

pg. 94-95

finding an issue on the topic of global warming: a student example

• Julie ross wrote about global warming. she attending a screening of An Inconvenient Truth which was followed by a panel

finding sources

• keep a research log
  • ideas and questions
  • notes about catalogs
  • personal responses

• make and store complete copies of sources that you may use.
  • you will want to annotate your sources

pg 100

periodicals

• articles in scholarly journals
• articles in magazines
• newspapers
• audiovisual materials
• websites
  • Julie looks at articles and uses quotes from them to help her get her point across

pg. 102

choosing precise search terms

• use keyword searching
• use phrase searching
• boolean searching
  • these can help you find the information you need fast
• using subject words

pg. 115

special help with evaluating websites

• know the sites domain – web address
• find home page – main page
• read about the bias and mission of the site
• read about the credentials of the creators
• note if the site reports its funding
• note how the site is

Julie used this is finding information for her research essay

pg. 151-162

Julie ross’s essay

• she introduces the topic in a good way
• she gives some stats based on research she did
• she put some direct quotes into her essay
• she gave some reasons for the rise in teardowns, which shows that she is providing background to her essay.
• she provided a works Cited with every source she used to write this essay

how has your understanding of your topic and the issue you want to argue changed due to your research?

• My argument has changed a little based on the research I have found. I am changing it to be more about high school and college students mental health and how social media has affect that.

Next, I’d like to type out examples of where Julie uses a direct quote; a paraphrase; and a summation. Then answer this question: What’s the effect on you, as a reader, when you see information from either primary or secondary sources presented in a variety of ways, that is, what does it make you think or feel about Julie and her credibility?

• “even as the average household shrunk from 3.4 to 2.6 people” (Brown 23)
• “Buildings [residential and commercial combined] take up rather more than half of all our energy use: they add more to the pollution of the atmosphere than transport and manufacture combined.”
• “From 1985 to 2002, total residential energy consumption per capita climbed eight percent, and residential consumption for the nation—the figure most relevant to global effects like carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions—climbed 32 percent” (Brown 23).
• Jessie Sackett, a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, writes: “Owning a home is the cornerstone of the American dream. Recently, however, we’ve realized that keeping that dream alive for future generations means making some changes to how we live today” (36)

When I see information from primary or secondary sources presenting in different ways it makes me think that she put in a lot of effort and she knows what she is talking about.