Cyber-Assignment re: Library Orientation English 1A 4-5:50 class
Yesterday evening, English 1A, 4-5:50 met in the Library classroom with Professor Fields for a very informative session on the academic research process. This made the third and last orientation for this semester. As of yesterday, all students irregardless of section have completed this lecture.
Each librarian approached the topic uniquely, Mrs. Fields no exception. She used what she called, the Big Six (6). See handout. We also practiced the strategy suggested in an exercise called: Dream Vacation (smile).
We reviewed the databases, MLA, how to find books on the shelf and how they are categorized, not to mention the importance of having a student ID card. She also reminded us that students have to sign up for a Learning Resources class in the Open Lab before they can use any of the academic labs: Writing, Math or Accounting, so sign up.
Students cannot print either without signing up for this free class.
In a 3 paragraph reflection, write about the orientation, what you learned, and what information was reinforced. Use concrete examples.
Why is research important? Why do we document sources? How do we evaluate sources and why? What is the difference between a scholarly and popular document?
Other homework is to write a three paragraph summary using The Happiness Project. Use the templates from They Say, Chapter 3. Use direct quotes. Students from other classes have already posted this assignment. Look at theirs for an example of the assignment.
Post your homework assignment there, not here. Here just post the 3 paragraph library reflection.
Each librarian approached the topic uniquely, Mrs. Fields no exception. She used what she called, the Big Six (6). See handout. We also practiced the strategy suggested in an exercise called: Dream Vacation (smile).
We reviewed the databases, MLA, how to find books on the shelf and how they are categorized, not to mention the importance of having a student ID card. She also reminded us that students have to sign up for a Learning Resources class in the Open Lab before they can use any of the academic labs: Writing, Math or Accounting, so sign up.
Students cannot print either without signing up for this free class.
In a 3 paragraph reflection, write about the orientation, what you learned, and what information was reinforced. Use concrete examples.
Why is research important? Why do we document sources? How do we evaluate sources and why? What is the difference between a scholarly and popular document?
Other homework is to write a three paragraph summary using The Happiness Project. Use the templates from They Say, Chapter 3. Use direct quotes. Students from other classes have already posted this assignment. Look at theirs for an example of the assignment.
Post your homework assignment there, not here. Here just post the 3 paragraph library reflection.
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Isabel Capristo
Eng 1A M/W 4pm
3/1/13
Library Orientation Reflection
In the library orientation I learned how to find resources and scholarly articles from the Peralta district's data base. By inputting a subject, title or author to the search engine a numerous amount of articles and magazines will appear.
From these readings there is an option to narrow your search. For example, when writing research papers you may not be able to find legit scholarly articles from the internet. This search engine allows you to look up articles written and revised by professionals for accurate facts.
Research is important for when writing on a topic other than your personal opinion. By researching a topic it gives you more evidence and ideas to support your subject. We document sources so that the reader may know where you retrieved your facts and lets them know your paper is not just an idea in the air. The difference between a scholarly and popular document is popular documents have a more biased opinion and not always written by professionals. Often times popular documents will also have advertisements that give them away. Scholarly articles have been written and based off of true facts rather than opinions.
Joshua Harvey
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Mon. & Weds. 4-5:50 pm
3/1/2013
Library Orientation Reflection
In the Library Orientation, I thought the lady that was giving the lecture was nice. She was well informed about the sources and things in the library. It was a lot of information given to us and I did not remember everything. However, the handouts that was given to us was also included in the lecture.
The first paper handout she talked about was called the big 6 for information problem solving. It was basically about how to plan a strategy about any tasked that needed to be completed. In the orientation, the tasked she used on how to use the big 6 was traveling out of the United States. It was a good example and I understood it well, but I didn’t know a person went through that much when they travel outside of the United States.
She talked about having a student id is important for using the library. I’d had a student id since 1/2011 and already sign up this semester for the free learning center to use the math, writing and computer labs so I already knew how that area worked.
We had another handout about how to distinguish between scholarly and popular periodicals. I found this to be very useful because when a person is doing a research paper and getting information from sources, they wouldn’t know whether it was written by an average Joe or a person who’s been educated in that field for 10 to 12 years plus with work experience.
The other handout was about what web sites were legitimate sources to get information from. Now a days, anybody can make a website so we needed to be aware of this.
The fourth handout was about how to access the Alameda Peralta school district library off campus. This is very convenient for me because sometimes I don’t have transportation or gas money to go to the school library or I might have the under the weather (not feeling well) syndrome.
Last but not the least important is a paper on physically, how to find a book in the school library by having what is called a shelf number and call number. I forgot how to do this process but I can always go in and asked the librarian about this process.
Overall, it was a good introduction to being familiar with the library use and other sources and how to utilize the handouts in projects.
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English 1A 4-5:50
Library Orientation
On Wednesday we went to the library for orientation. This informational period included advice on ways to start your research using the “Big 6”. This process is when one defines their task, formulates an information seeking strategy, determines what sources are available, extracts the information needed, synthesizes said information, and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the ideas provided. (Eisenberg/Berkowitz) Also covered were ways to identify differences in scholarly articles, popular periodicals, primary and secondary sources.
This orientation was very informative. Especially impressive was the wide range of available recourses made to students; not only through the school library and its databases but also the number of public libraries in the area. We received several informative handouts to support the ideas being presented and were giving step by step instructions on ways to conduct searches.
Throughout my time in this class as well as throughout my Peralta community college system career I hope to hone skills in using these recourses to quickly and more efficiently identify useful research that I can implement in my papers along with the methods Professor Sabir presents in her class. I feel that the orientation was effective and informative in letting students know the ultimate value in being able to bring these skills together culminating in more prepared and affective academic writing.
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Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50
3 March 2013
Library Orientation Reflection
On Wednesday we met with Mrs.Fields for library orientation where she mentioned many helpful topics for research. Such topics included the big six, evaluating websites, scholarly vs. popular periodicals and how to find books in the library. Mrs. Fields was very detailed in her orientation especially when introducing the big six. Mrs. Fields illustrated different examples for the big six which she called your dream vacation. The task being planning a vacation using questions who, what, when, why, how and where. Also setting a strategy to planning the vacation. When putting it all together becomes the big six asking questions and seeking strategy for your research. I also found scholarly vs. popular periodicals to be very informative. I can now tell the difference from the two. Mrs. Fields also explained the importance of a student ID. One being that students can not check out books without one. Overall I found the orientation to be well put together, descriptive and helpful especially with all the handouts provided.
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Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
3 March 2013
Framing Quotations Exercise
In her book The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin states, “Nevertheless, studying Buddhism made me realize the significance of some of the concepts that I’d overlooked. The most important was mindfulness – the cultivation of conscious, nonjudgmental awareness.”(236) As she entered the month of October, she attempted to tackle her newest resolution, “Pay Attention”. (235) In talking about her quest with friend and acquaintances, Buddhism was a constant recommendation from her peers. This prompted her to do some research including the work, The Art of Happiness by the prominent religious figure the Dalai Lama.
While Rubin herself writes, “[And] although I admired many of its teachings, I didn’t feel much deep connection to Buddhism, which, at its heart, urges detachment as a way to alleviate suffering.” (235) In her book The Happiness Project, Rubin maintains that “I’m an adherent of the Western tradition of cultivating deep passions and profound attachments; I didn’t want to detach, I wanted to embrace; I didn’t want to loosen, I wanted to deepen.” (236) She seems to go back and forth on the virtues of things like meditations. She complicates matters further when she writes, “Perhaps I’d try meditation in Happiness Project II, but for now I would seek happiness in the ways that seem most natural to me.” (237)
Ultimately I think that Rubin did benefit from her study of Buddhism. She goes on to express appreciation for her new knowledge of the religion when she writes, “The aspect that intrigued me the most, however, was the study of Zen koans. A koan is a question or statement that can’t be understood logically. Zen Buddhist monks meditate on koans as a way to abandon dependence on reason in their pursuit of enlightenment.” (238) Rubin developed her own collection of koans including “The best way out is always through.” taken from Robert Frost. I feel confident in stating that Rubin gained a deeper appreciation for, if nothing else, the many paths to happiness that different cultures can offer.
Miaoping Zhong
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50
3 March 2013
Assignment: Library Orientation Reflection
After having library orientation, I knew that research was very important for my paper since Mrs. Fields gave us a very detailed and informative presentation for research. I knew that the primary and secondary source in the documents. For example, Mrs. Fields gave us some ideas to research by using the internet. She said that it was necessary to know what information which provided in website was available for our research paper. In addition, in order to figure out the information that was creditable and reliable, we should make sure author’s identity and his or her qualifications and also choose if the information we used in our paper was mostly subjective and objective.
Also I knew that there were eight differences between the scholarly and popular document, such as authors, content, reference, editors, audience, appearance, length, and example. For instance, most authors in scholarly were scholars and researchers while journalists and staff writers in popular document. Moreover, content using in scholarly was more original and formative that popular. Also there were lists of references or bibliography in scholarly but popular document didn’t have. Editors in scholarly are experts while popular were staff members. Appearance in scholarly was more serious and detail than popular document.
It was nice to know how to access to library database in Peralta community colleges. Students had to prepare students ID and used the library webpage to look for the article databases in the library systems.
Cecilya Alanis
Eng 1A M/W 4-550
3/3/13
Library Orientation
Last week was our class field trip to the library. Where Ms, Fields (Librarian) showed us all how to research and evaluate proper sites for information. Although I had known how to use the database and catalogs before from previous class tours, there were things I didn’t know that I learned from this trip. For example, I had no idea that you had to be signed into a class to be part of the labs and to even use the printer.
Research is important because giving correct information can fuel a person’s mind on a topic. You do not want to give out false information on a topic because your word is your value. If your “facts “are not actually facts all your credit and hard work will have been for nothing. We document Sources because we are telling the reader where we found this information. If the reader would like to know more on the subject they can look it up using the source provided. This is also the way of avoiding plagiarism. (Using the authors words as your own) We evaluate sources to determine the quality and accuracy on the internet because anyone can create a website. Exploring the website is to determine is the information is biased, opinionated, objective, or factual. A good indication of a good website to use for information is finding and looking up the author, provide means of education, or look at the web address. (.com or edu) Scholarly websites list researchers credentials and affiliations, as well as list of references, and if the editors are experts in their field. In popular websites credentials are rarely given , The editor is a staff member or journalist ,These are also smaller websites of information .
This trip to the library though I have taken it many times, this trip seemed to provide the most information on obtaining and debunking websites with false information. The skills learned from this day, for example the “big 6” is a tool I will use in this class and in any other future classes that research is needed.
Cecilya Alanis
Eng 1A M/W 4-550
3/3/13
Library Orientation
this above was in 3 paragraphs im not so sure why the last one didnt show . 3rd paragraph starts on "this trip to the library"
Ngoc Huynh
Professor Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50p.m.
Library research
To do the research in the library, there are certain rules that I need to follow in order to find the valuable sources. Since The Peralta Community College has their own scholarly articles data base, I can easily find the sources data base through their library. First I need to get the Student ID, so that the librarians know who I am and able to help me. I need to know what I am looking for, so that I can put in relevant information into the library computer which makes the computer to find the information more accurately. Articles, subjects, author, magazines, books, and projects are needed information to put in.
The most advantages to use the Peralta’s data base are that I can find creditable and useful information that have written by professional people that also be called scholarly periodic. Usually when I am about doing my research projects, I always look on the internet that sometimes it provides incredible information that can be written by anyone. Sometimes these information are not accurate or fact because it based on their opinions. Moreover, these information are also called popular periodic. Now a day, many people can make their own websites and write many things that they observe of understand, but those facts that they get may not be the true facts. As a result, when I find information online I need to distinguish between scholarly information that are written by educated people who carry out the facts of information, and those information that are just opinions from particular people.
Another advantage of Peralta’s data base is that I don’t need to go the library to find information, while I can do it via internet. By looking over library website, I can also access information. That way I can save my time and be more convenience.
Tiesheanna stovall
English1A 4:00-5:50
3/4/13
I wasn't able to make it to class on this day, but feel I should write something anyway. I find the fact that the library Carries and provide the books us students use in class to be very helpful. It allows those who do not have the books to be able to keep up with those who do. Also the fact that you can use the computers to quickly access the books they have available awesome. That elevate having to search through the shelves for a particular book. Also the computers provides ways for students to research and type out papers. I myself uses the libraries help for that particular purpose because I don't have a computer at home. They also help show you how to use the computers so you can't get lost or intimidated by the computers.
Ernest Ramirez
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4 – 5:50
3/1/2013
The academic research process
English 1A class was a bit different today 2/27/2013, rather than the usual classroom setting we gathered inside the library for a well-informed presentation about the academic research process facilitated by Mrs. Fields. Along the same line Mrs. Fields also issued some very important handouts which could aid in searching for books in the library.
Mrs. Fields started the presentation by referencing to the “Big 6 for information problem solving.” The very first thing to any research is to fist understand the assignment. To put it another way know what is been asked. Once we have full understanding of what is been ask, we then come up with an action plan by using who, what, when, why, how, and where. The other steps are the information seeking strategy, location and access, use of information, synthesis and evaluation.
The dream vacation was the perfect illustration, all the questions and all the answers consequently makes the journey less stressful. In conclusion the presentation should help tremendously in future research assignments.
Enrique Barboza Jr
English 1A 4-550PM
Library Orientation
On February 28th, 2013, Mrs. Sabir's English 1A 4-550 class met up at the library to learn on how to conduct a research for any project that you are doing. It was called the Big 6 and it was a guide on how to start your research. I found it very helpful to ask yourself that major questions in the Big 6 to build a foundation for your research project.
The librarian showed us the importance of a student and how to obtain it at the welcome center. We need the student ID to check out books, go to the computer lab and print stuff out. This was very informative for me because I need to get a new ID card because I have misplaced my old one.
Enrique Barboza
English 1A 4-550PM
Whoops accidently posted my response before I finished writing it.
Professor Fields handed out the username and password to access the Online database of academic journals in the Peralta district to assist us in the academic research process. She also showed us a video that showed the difference between an scholarly article and other non academic writings. The difference is that an academic journal is writing by Professional. This will be very useful in helping us conduct our research for our projects.
Professor Fields also assisted us in showing how to search the Peralta College's libraries for certain books that we will look for. She handed out a sheet on how the books are categorized in the library for the College of Alameda.
Overall, her presentation was very helpful and will help us to complete our assignments
Enrique Barboza Jr
English 1A 4-550PM
In the Happiness Project, the author Gretchen Rubin takes a year to improve aspects of her life to make herself happier. She creates twelve resolutions for the entire year, one resolution for each month. As she completes a resolution for the month, she applies her resolution for the next month as well. For the month of June, for example, she decides to make time for friends. According to Rubin, she wanted to “[focus] on my relationships by strengthening old friendships, deepening existing friendships, and make new friends” (142). In making this comment, Rubin is urges us to maintain and create bonds with others that are close to you. Strong social bonds are key for being happy.
For the month of July, Rubin begins working on her resolution of making time for friends. She starts by remembering her friends' birthday, and she does this by using a website, HappyBirthday.com. A friend of hers recommended that she make a phone call instead, but Rubin decided she send emails instead because she disliked making phone calls. In Rubin's view, “the important thing was to maintain the connection” (144). Rubin's point is that as long as you remember to take the time to wish your friend a happy birthday, it shows that you care for your friend. Remembering friends' birthday will strengthen bonds because it shows that you deeply care for your friend.
Rubin also works on showing up to meet her friends' babies when she is invited over. Rubin saw that these simple “gestures deepen casual friends into close friends, and confirm closeness between good friends” (154). In other words, Rubin believes that showing up to any event that your friends invite you to, shows that you truly do care about your friendship with them. Bonding with your friends will truly keep your friendship going for many years.
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