Blog 19

First slide- name and topic/title

Slides 2-6: have main points from your paper

Background, problem, solution,resources, list of sources

Slide 7- Questions?

A good power point – has about 30 words at max per slide, center your words, keep the font large

Make sure your font is light, your background should be dark

15 points worth due next Tuesday

15 points are also avaiable for uploading iteams to your class portfolio

First paper- exploaration paper, graded copy

Second paper- annotated bib and outline, graded version

Third paper- research paper, graded

Two short writing assignments ( your choice)

paper from another class

Cover letter/reflection

write a letter to a future student who will take 1020

15 points for the portfolio contents. LABEL EVERYTHING.

Cover letter is worth 30 points .

Blog 18 The Final Countdown

Conclusion: Your blog 16 was supposed to be your conclusion

High school conclusions are like: “in conclusion,…..” , Restate your main points,summarize the whole paper, put your thesis there in different form or syntax

Conclusion: Keep doing the high school thing to start. Think about what research you weren’t able to complete because of the length . State the limitations of your study.

Hypothesize what might be needed in the future.

Be careful: avoid fallacies.

Error in reasoning.

Sillpery slope fallacy: If my plan is adopted, the world will be saved from all tornadoes, and then in the future all people will not even have to prepare for tornadoes because my plan is so great. Then all the countries will find peace will live happily ever after.

Ad hominem- be careful not to insult or put down other plans or solution. My solution works best because…..

Joe Smith’s solution is so terible and think is so terrible and think he’s a terrible person

People have the Act II problem. ( you’ren tired by the end) Dont place loaded guns on the dresser in Act I when they aren’t going to go off in Act II.

The gun has to off in Act II if it’s there.

Ex: Although most people think men aren’t going to cook or prepare food for families, I am going to show that they do.

The paper was then about how to cook spaghetti. Men and women werent even a factor in the paper.

Doubled spaced, Hanging indents at the second line. Author last name only inculde sources on your list that you actually use.

What does it mean if you have a name in works cited like Jones, Caleb. Camping Out BUT the word jones doesnt appear in the doc.?

Review Blog

ICEBERG TECHNIQUE

Go below the surface

Follow different links, trails, show the effort you made in investigating

Start w/a plain Google search- when you find those hits, read THEM, and explore what SOURCES THEY USE, this is especially true of Wikipedia

Buzzfeed.com and sites like it use “clickbait” to get you to visit them.

Avoid Britannica.com and other online.com that act like encyclopedias. They are too watered down for you. They make it look like you’re staying in the shallows. YOU NEED TO BE “FAR FROM THE SHALLOWS NOW” AS LADY GAGA SAYS.

Now you need a specific thesis that focuses on a solution the major part of the paper

Grey’s Anatomy : “ Out of Nowhere”

  1. No cell phones in use
  2. The FBI was called
  3. Webber changed to paper charting and manual taking of vitals
  4. Grey thought about changing to an open procedure
  5. Baily wanted to pay the ransom
  6. Karev, Shepherd

 

We started with a general topic in January- water supply in Montgomery, hurricane damage, zombies, etc.

February/March- moving toward a hypothesis and then a thesis- getting specific

The way to get specific is to focus on the SOULTION.

At this point, details about your solution need to be in your thesis statement

During a computer outage in a hospital , everyone needs to be comfortable using handheld tools like paper, pen , ice buckets, and newspapers

How to deal with life when there’s no electricity in Montgomery due to a blackout.

 

Paragraph about handheld tools:

One of the ways that residents of the city can survive the problem is to trust older members of their communities. In the popular tv show Grey’s Anatomy, and episode titled “Out of Nowhere” shows how and experienced, older doctor named Richard helps younger doctors use paper charts and ice to help treat people in the ER. A computer hacker makes all the medical records inaccessible, so Richard trains the interns to take notes on these paper charts. Later, he also advises one of them to use a bucket of ice to cool off someone who had no access to pills but needed his heartrate to drop. Although the show is fictional, Richard’s way of training people will resemble my own way of training people in Montgomery.

Blog 12

Body paragraphs: Explaining what you introduced in the previous paragraph, Know what you want to talk about before hand

ORDER

Has more”stuff”, more explanations than other parts

One major point, usually in the beginning or even end

Offer evidence of your major point

Major point or topic sentence

Evidence to support it

Link to the next paragraph

How is a body paragraph differnet in ENGL 1020 THAN IN ENGL 1010?

You learn how to make your papers flow together better and how to word things differently

RESEARCH CONVERSATION HAPPENS

Visit a website, read and article by an undergraduate. Skim it. Look for FIVE examples (in body paragraphs) where the author “enters conversation” with another perspective or source.

Yambor,Alexandra (Sasha)”Writing Center Tutors and Students with Learning                                           Disabilities: Perceptions, Feelings, and Tutoring Strategies”, Queen City                                   Writers, vol. 4, no. 2, Srping 2016, https://qc-writers.com/issues/4-2-spring-                             2016/

Another theme that arose in the tutor interviews was that the tutors used some strategies that were outlined in Julie Neff’s book chapter, but they did not report using a number from that chapter. It is possible that the tutors were not aware of the other strategies that Neff describes, and the strategies they missed seemed to be connected with the use of specialized knowledge. Since the strategies that the tutors reported fell in line with the UDL guidelines and Neff’s article, the tutors’ understandings of the strategies are in line with the continuum perception even though their feelings seemed to fall into the distinctly different category. This should perhaps not be entirely surprising, since there was a tension between perception and strategies in Neff’s article, as I addressed above.

Other scholars working from the distinctly different perspective recommend tutoring strategies that align with UDL approaches, implying that supporting student writers with learning disabilities is not strictly the purview of specialists. In one of the most widely read articles on tutoring writers with learning disabilities in the writing center, Julie Neff outlines a number of strategies associated with UDL including modeling, directive scaffolding, leading questions, reassuring, and creating a positive space. However, early in the article, Neff defines a learning disability as “a malfunction in the system in one or more areas” (82) of the brain, and argues that to support a student with a disability, it’s important to understand the nature of that malfunction. To me, this sounds like Neff is taking the position that students with learning disabilities have “distinctly different” needs. On the other hand, Neff discourages tutors from making the mistake of thinking that a student’s difference in performance implies a difference in cognition or intelligence, and she assures tutors that they can, indeed, work with students with learning disabilities by simply trying a slightly wider range of tutoring strategies than they might have employed previously. None of the techniques she suggest seem beyond the scope of a writing tutor who has not had formal study in special education.

 

Blog 11

I want to provied the world with medicine and supplies if the world comes to an end in a way. Now you may be thinking that is impossible which it is but in an unrealistic world it can be true. As far as we know right know at this moment in life we dont know how the world will end weather its nuclear war fare or all technology shuts down and we get hacked the possiblities are endless so we have to be prepeared for the worst and I dont think the world is because with the president we have now IN MY OPINION he is more worried about who may start a war and less concerend about keeping america safe. But thats just me.

Blog 10.5

Writing the bibliography was tough but I powered through it so to speak. The toughest thing about writing this paper was finding my sources and how to put them into my paper. I am not very good at writing papers but I try my best. Sometimes when im writing I get a little off track and distracted and my papers dont always make sence but i get my point across. Another thing I struggle with is finding the right words to say to make my paper flow together in the right direction. I have learned alot about how to write my papers and how to research topics better which I think will help me in the long run and in future classes.

Spring Break Blog 2019 (extra credit)

What are reasons that we actually use our sources?

To back up your argument

To add authority to what you’re saying

To prove you’re not stealing or plagiarizing

To argue against the source, disagree with them

To show that YOU CARRIED OUT THE GOAL, you used the iceberg technique

To defend your points

To define key terms in your intro

How might sources be use in poor or annoying ways?

  • The roadkill- you drop the source in there, it doesnt make much sense or relate to the topic
  • Citations that dont make sense [always want to use the author’s last name in a citation and the page if you have it: (Bell 140). Bad ex: (“Definition”).]
  • Uncle Berry rambles too much- throwing in TOO MANY SOURCES and TOO MUCH TO FAST. (REMINDER: the solution COMES FROM YOU) This means using “I” in your paper.
  • Not quotig or summarizing correctly.
  • Three things we do: summarizing, Parapharsing, and directly quoting
  • Summarizing: general or the MAJOR point of what you read
  • Paraphrasing: putting par of a source in your own words. still means you have to cite it!
  • Quoting: exact words from author are needed. Ex.: ” worst places” (citation needed) include Chernobyl
  • FLOW– connecting old info to new info in a smooth way. Ex.: First, I went to my morning class. Then i had a snck. After that i went to my music class. Then finally I ate lunch, and school got out early.
  • How is the flow working in social media? Thers’s little flow in our everyday lives either in social media or on the news…..

Blog 10

10 sources total, 5 of which are from journals/ schorlarly sources, 5 from reputable places using CRAAP, pop culture examples (qualify them- explain that they can still help us understand certain things)

Pose a hypothesis at the top of your outline

HIGH SCHOOL ANALOGY OF BURGUER:

Top of the bun- intro

Meat – body

Bottom of bun- conculsion

DELUXE BURGUER NOW:

I. Intro Para 1: start with a personal example or story that explains why you researched this topic, or share a story from your pop culture sources ( qualify it and say it’s fiction)

II. Intro Para 2: Define all of your terms. Slow down, and explain what your most important key terms mean. Ex: EMP — explain what letters stand for, explain what it is in your own terms

III. Intro Para 3: thesis paragraph where you explain your solution and how you’ll structure it

BRIDGE be INTRO and BODY

Describe a possible senario that will cause a disaster. In a proprsal , stick to that genre. Use logos. Use qualifiers- explain what it’s hypothetical. Be concise ( no more than 1-2 para). Avoid changing genres and making it creative.

IV. Decrive the way the world normally functions.

A. Source of water in Montgomery

B. Rivers and their influrnces

C. Pollution

V. Describe the way we must solve a problem if diaster occurs.

A. Money or costs

B. Staff

C. Buildings

VI. Desribe opposing views/ differnent ways to solve the problem

VII. Conculsion part one: explain again why your choice is the best.

VIII. Call action: expalin what work still needs to be done, explain the limits of your proposal

Create your OWN outline, filling in the specifics from your project. Make it parallel.

Parallel structure: means that all grammatical and stylistic choices look the same

 

Blog 8.5

1.Why might I quote someone directly rather than summarize them?

2. What is the difference between using quotations and using italics in citations?

3. What is the fisrt thing you need to know about a source?

4. Where might you go to get help with how to cite something?

5. What are three things that each annotation should include?

6. What is something you remember that’s not on this quiz?

Review:

1. Caleb Jones explains that people who do not go into nature are “cowardly” Although the word cowardly is too strong here, I do think we all could use more nature.

2. In the work cited entires OR i  the text itself, small stuff =” quotations”, large=italics

3. The first thing you need to know about a source is the first AND last names of the authors. The first time you intro an author, you’re going to use their full name. After that, use their last name.

Where might you get help to cite something?

Purdue OWL

Library

Teachers

Easy Bib/ Citation Machine/

What three thing are a part of an annotation?

Author, Title, Date, sometimes Journals/ numbers

Citation, Summary, Evaluation

Given a topic in January- the apocalyptic event

Narrow this topic- health care in the apocalypse

Hypothesis-

In hight school you have your thesis first, and then you look up sources that support that.

CONFORMATION BIAS

Extreme tourism- my topic

I do research and read different types of sources and THEN-                                      Hypothesis:

Using exteame tourism to become famous online is an insukt to the people who have survived the disaster.

Thesis:

In this project a set of instagram photos i found online illustrated my main point: that extreme toursim, especially done right after the event, is  disrespectful to the survivors.

10 sources: 5 should be from scholary journals and 5 can be online

Use pop culture text.

Topic: grieving after a disaster/ setting up services

On my first few pages I want to share examples of grieved alongside their characters was on the film Avengers: Infinity War. This film features a group of heros in their attempt to stop the unrelenting Thanos from wiping out half of the galaxy’s population. In the conculsion to this film , most viwers were heartbroken when they saw Iron Man holding Spiderman, who disappered in to ash. Likewise, Capt America sank to his knees to see his best friend vanish before his eyes. These moments might be similar to ones we have experience after disasters.

Chernobyl Diaries. Directed by Brad Parker, performances by             and           , 2012

This film shows what happens to a group of young adults who travel to Chernobyl. The horror comes when they are stranded on the site.

Blog 8

“When disasters occur, nursing student and nurses can play a significant roole in caring for people affected by the disasters. Thus, disater preparedness is key for nursing students.”

Frisch, Noreen(PhD, RN, FAAN), Jennings-Sanders, Andrea (DrPH & RN), Wing,                     Sharon(MSN&RN) “Disaster Management & Response”  Vol. 3, Issue 3,                       July-September 2005, pp. 80-85

This article is about teaching disaster protocall to nurses and nursing students. It included studies taken from different nursing schools around the country about what classes they offer as far as a preparedness classes. They even included little practice question on what should be inclued on the tests.

“Since Sept. 2001, however, the United States has under taken a comprehensive reevaluation of its preparedness and the resources neccssary to amass a response to critical events, particularly those posed by various forms of terrorism.”

Stanley, Joan( PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN)  Nursing Clinics of North America “Disaster                          Competency Development and Intergration in Nursing                                                  Education” Vol. 40, Issue 3, September 2005, pp 453-467.

Here they talk about the inportance of having an emergancy preparedness class for nursing student after 9/11. I think that after such disaster not just nurses but all people should be allowed to take such classes so we can all be prepared and not waiting for help.