Activities for R 10/15

The essay > Remember: 1500 words minimum. We'll work on this over the next several weeks, due Nov 10.

Annotated bibliographies / literature reviews >

1. Add annotations to your Diigo links. Annotations should at least include the following three parts: a) a brief summary of the resource, b) a brief evaluation of the resources; and c) a brief explanation of why the resource is important to your project.
2. You should have a minimum of two resources from either Project Muse or JSTOR. Also, check out Google Scholar.
   
3. Once you complete your annotations, go to your Diigo Library > select the Edit and Manage View (the right hand view option) > select all your bookmarks with the check box in the upper left > select generate report from the pull-down menu.
   
4. Cut and paste your report with annotated links into a new Google Doc >save the Google Doc > name it something related to your project and link it to your blog.
5. Work down the blog list and read at least two others annotated bibliographies. Comment on their blog, suggesting improvement to the annotations, and suggesting additional resources relating to their project.
   

Collaborative Document >

The entire class will write a single document on the course topic. This allows us to see how the projects are related; to look for problems in our arguments; and to see how ideas developed in the course come together to make something larger than the individual projects. Today we will start by knocking heads together - just putting ideas into the collaborative document. Later, each of you will add to and expand your contributions.

1. Use Wordpad or something similar to: write one sentence describing your research topic; and then to write at least one, maybe more, ideas or theories emerging from your topics.
2. Paste your writing into the collaborative document. (You should have received an email invitation to edit the Doc.)
3. Be sure to include your name at the beginning. For example, Sandy says [and then add your text].
   

Note: we will all be editors of the document, but only 10 can actively edit at a time; after the limit of 10, others can only view.