Cyber-Assignment: Library Orientation for English 1A 1-2:50 p.m.
Professor David Sparks covered a lot of ground today in class. In a short response, reflect on his presentation from the welcome to the brainstorming to the various handouts and tools he introduced to you. Why is it important to know the differences between scholarly and popular texts? What is the CRAAP test all about?
Were any questions about citing sources to avoid plagiarism cleared up for you?
Secondly, explore your topic, "happiness" using at least 3 of the resources available to you. Discuss what you used and using MLA document the source so that classmates can also find it.
The other homework is listed in the post below.
I returned more papers, we should be caught up by Monday.
Were any questions about citing sources to avoid plagiarism cleared up for you?
Secondly, explore your topic, "happiness" using at least 3 of the resources available to you. Discuss what you used and using MLA document the source so that classmates can also find it.
The other homework is listed in the post below.
I returned more papers, we should be caught up by Monday.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 2:51 PM
6 Comments:
I felt that Professor David Sparks had done a great job. It is very practical that students should know about the usefulness of our library. The differences between scholarly and popular texts are important for students because the languages used in these two types are different. Popular texts often use language that more simple to understand which might be misleading. Scholar texts are more clear and specific. In the other hand, C.R.A.A.P test was also important. I often forget to check the information about the sources or more specific are books or articles. As a result, I would have irrelevant supporting sources which might lead my essay to a wrong direction. The C.R.A.A.P test helps me to carefully check my sources before using them.
According to Catherine Jackson, author of an article in Therapytoday.net, "We've been encouraged to focus on the acquisition of material goods and social status. We have become much less focused on what it is about self-esteem that comes from real achievement through hard work. There is very little real focus on encouraging people to understand that if you put hard work in, you will get results, and if you do that in the context of looking out for each other and doing a good turn every day, the evidence is you will feel really good about yourself, and you will be healthier." (qtd. in Atherton)
In the article "Built-In Happiness", Gretchen Rubin states that "The fact is, we can build a happy life only on the foundation of our own natures, interests, and values. I've found that the more faithfully I'm able to "be Gretchen" in my daily life, the happier I become."
In his article "Is it moral to offer happiness?", Simon Fisher observed "The concept of happiness is slippery and illusive. It moves around and about. It can be dependent on the cultural and economic status quo and the aspirations of power elites."
Amit Dhingra
Professor Sabir
English 1A 1-2:50pm
03 March 2013
Library Response
In the library we learned a lot about article databases, plagiarism, and much more. The difference between scholarly and popular sites is that a popular site can be made by anyone and may or may not hold the truth. Also, it has very little to back it up. On the other hand, a scholarly site is written by someone that has knowledge in the field of writing or is written by a scholar. The importance of the C.R.A.A.P test is that it allows you to determine if the information you have is valid. Based on the time, relevance, source, accuracy, and purpose of the information. Overall, I would say I learned a lot about finding valid sources.
Joctan Chicas-Campos
Professor Sabir
English 1A 1-2:50pm
03 March 2013
Library Response
What I from the library was how to search for books and authors in the school library website. How to use the library's website and if I have questions, I can chat with someone from the library. The differents between a scholary and a popular text is scholary normally end in .edu and is used for school work and popular text can be created by anyone and there mostly inacurate. The C.R.A.A.P test helps if the information on a paper is correct or not.
Michele Gregory
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
4 March 2013
Learning at the Library
When I go to the library, I never think of all the stuff I can do there. Usually I just get to the book section that I want, pick up my books and check out. Today I got to see what the College of Alameda had to offer when I want to do research on a particular subject. I spent a whole hour with David Sparks, he was able to show me that they much more to offer then books.
David started out just letting me know where things are located so if I do need any help I can go to the desk and ask. He let me know that if I wanted to reserve a quiet room that there are two and that there is a quiet area where I can go to study if I choose. Then he already knew that I was about to start a research project on “Happiness” so he showed me that there are several different resources that I can choose from. Print Resources, Article Database, Web Resources, Book Catalog, Online Article Database, and Newspaper search.
After David explained all of these resources, he went into the research process. I learned about the Library Home Page on the College of Alameda website and how they have a virtual reference desk, if I ever need any help I can chat with someone at once. Then he went into the drafting process which includes; brainstorming, narrow you topic, think of the amount of time I have, and authority on the subject.
Emily Walters
Professor Sabir
English 1A 1-2:50pm
04 March 2013
Library Orientation
What a packed hour of great and useful information. Professor David Sparks did such a great job and had a lot of knowledge of the use of the library and the resources that are available to us. I thought I may know the Library, but after spending this hour with Professor Sparks, I realized that I only knew very minimal. Professor Sparks was very welcoming and really gave us a lot of handy tools and information. The brainstorming of our topic Happiness was very useful and really got me thinking more in depth about the topic. Being able to narrow your topic to conduct a research is ideal and useful when forming your thoughts in your writing. By sitting through Professor Sparks’ orientation, I now know how to do that effetely and hopefully it will help with my future papers. One topic that Professor Sparks touched on was the difference between scholarly and popular text. This is important to us because the writing in each is different. Scholarly text is usually written by someone professional and uses language that is more precise and specific. Where as popular text is written by the everyday person and uses language that is your normal everyday language. The other tool that Professor Sparks showed us was the C.R.A.A.P. test. This process is a very good tool and helps you evaluate weather or not it is an accountable source or not. My ongoing habit of not checking or looking at the sources that I choose to use in my writing is not a good habit to follow. With having this test in mind, I will be able to better evaluate the sources that I choose to use. The Library orientation was very informative!
Cole Goodman
Professor Sabir
English IA 1-2:50pm
March 4, 2013
For Wednesday’s class we went to the library in order to learn some research tools. We learned about the C.R.A.A.P. test that incorporates strategies for finding relevant information such as finding scholarly articles. The C.R.A.A.P. test also helps us to find the useful information within a longer written work and is a helpful tool for quickly determining what sources we should use and which ones we should dispose of.
I wasn’t aware of all the resources that are available to us before this library orientation. It is very helpful to know how we can simplify the research process and as a result save time and come up with an even better end product. It’s really cool that we can find information not just through the library at Alameda but through various public libraries. It was important for me to take notes during this lecture as some of the stages of the Big Six are specific and will take a couple attempts to master. I’m looking forward to using these strategies with what we have learned in English IA so far.
It is important to be able to differentiate between information that is based off of beliefs and opinions as opposed to actual evidence based information that is well backed up. Sometimes a simple google search will be overwhelmingly full of opinions from unqualified people and it will be nice to have some efficient ways of filtering this out and finding useful information.
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