Sunday, September 1, 2013

Reeling in Research (Due 9/03)

Luckily, research is at your fingertips thanks to the internet. Chabot College Library has a wonderful collection of databases you can search to find credible resources.


If you haven't already figured out how to round up some scholarly research, here are some steps you can follow:

      This link, http://libraryguides.chabotcollege.edu/articledatabases, will take you to the Chabot College online data base. There you can find published articles that have credibility. 

      On this page, you have many different options for where to look for your article. "Academic Search Premier," is the data base that has it all, but feel free to look around the others.

      I suggest you search for things using the advance search option. In this option, you can choose whether you want Full Texts, which you do, and if you want to read articles from newspapers, books, etc.

      When you are in these databases, choose the words you want to search wisely. Be as specific as possible. For example, if my topic had to do with the passion of high school kids being squashed by the loss of creative programs, my search words would be, creative arts, high school, loss.  

      If you don't get the results you want, try out new keywords. 

Bring you articles to class (9/03)
Print out your written work and bring it to class (9/03)
Read the instructions I gave you about the homework carefully.

If you are confused about this section, "Form an opinion about how the concept you focused on in the Passion Project intersects with the paper focus you developed on the worksheet we did in Tuesday’s class, 'Writing Assignment: Rule of Three,'" think of the competition we had at the end of class. I am asking you to make a connection between the big concept/focus you developed in class and The Passion Project. If it is easier for you to make a connection to some of the smaller concepts you developed on that worksheet, then please feel free to do so. 


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