How to cite an article from a database

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Beram, Nell. “Off the Prairie” Horn Book Magazine.81.1 (2005): 61-67. Academic
Search Complete. EBSCO. Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, Georgia. . 18 Mar 2008.

Paper 2 Conferences

Here is the schedule for conferences next week. Remember missing your confrence constitutes three days of missed class. Students who are late to conferences will not have the opportunity to reschedule since as you can see we are on a very tight schedule. Drafts of your paper should be in my box in the English Department office (924 GCB) or on the door of my office (966 GCB) 24 hours prior to your confrence time (those who have Monday, and ONLY those who have Monday conferences can email me their drafts.)
Because of conferences I also won't be holding any office hours Apr 14-18. Please email me if you have questions.
Remember your draft should be no fewer than 8 pages long and should include an MLA style works cited sheet. Come to conference armed with questions, I look forward to talking to each of you about your papers.

Monday April 14th
9:15 Frank White
9:30 Doug Peters
9:45 Destorian Cash
10am Kyle Rolla
10:15 Courtney Coleman
10:30 Rebecca Girma
10:45 Monika Selles
11am Matt Powell


Wed. April 16th
8:30 Sidney Weaver
8:45 Armani Harper
9am Cecilia Ochei
9:15 David Johnston
9:30 Jazmine Lillard
9:45 Kayla Dennard
10am Suzie Hwangbo
10:15 Chris Hamilton
10:30 Jennifer Harnandez
10:45 Monique Vaughn
11am Elijah Bouldin
11:15 Vanessa Singh
11:30 Lachristen Smiley
11:45
12pm Latasha Harris
12:15 Veronica Woods
12:30 Melissa Jenkins
12:45 Divya Chelliah
1pm Ashley Parkins
1:15 Lisa Yang
1:30 Mackenzie Burdine

Friday April 18th
8am Brandie McGee
8:15 Shawna Dixon
8:30 Mario Craddock
8:45 Ayanna Carrington
9am Nana Twenboah
9:15 Bryan Quiroz
9:30 Nicole Adiyah
9:45 Ash’a Wilford
10am Giavanna Reeves
10:15 Kenya Smith
10:30 Adrienne Maddox
10:45 Sana Malik
11am Lark Payne

Status Update

Go through the following four readings we’ve done in our subculture unit and identify the following
1. The claim (what is this piece arguing?)
2. The style of argument (classical, toumlin or rogerian)

• “Transmissions from Camp Trans”
• “Dark Webs Goth Subcultures in Cyberspace”
• “The Truck Stop as Community and Culture”
• “House for the Homeless”

After you’ve posted this entry post a paragraph explaining to me where you are in your process, what you have done, what you still have left to do, and a question you intend to pose to your peer review group on Monday ( your question shouldn’t be “is this any good?”)

This is due by 11am Friday April 4th

First Fieldsite Observation

On Friday you should visit the field site you plan to observe for this project. As you conduct your observations consider the following:

*What is going on in the field site
*How do the members of the subculture interact with each other?
*Make a list of terminology used at the fieldsite with which you might be unfamiliar.
*What details, behaviors, surroundings did you have questions about?
*Find at least one person at your fieldsite you can speak to and ask them a question about something you observed that you didn't understand.

Post an observation report on your blog by MONDAY MARCH 31st at 9AM

Note: your observations should have complete sentences, paragraphs and punctuation!

Act V

Respond to the questions I gave you on Wed. in class on your blog. This is due before class on Monday March 24.

Here are some links to help you out:

Prison Performing Arts Program

And if you'd like to listen to Act V again, you can here (click the button that says full episode and you can listen to it for free)

Links to help you get started...

Hi everyone,
I've enjoyed seeing what each of you has decided to research. As predicted I will need to speak to some of you on Monday regarding some topic overlap.
To help you begin your research I've posted some links about subcultures and researching subcultures under the links sections. Let me know if you have any questions. Have a great weekend!

Starting subcultures

On your blog post the following things:
1. The subculture that you are researching.
2. Using your newly acquired skills go to the library and find 5 sources (books, articles films) etc that pertain to your subculture. On your blog post citations for the five sources
3. Choose one of the sources from your list and read a little from it and write a short (100 word) reflection on why this text might be interesting or useful to you in this project. Do not SUMMARIZE the text. This is due Friday March 14th by 11am.

So your blog entry should look like this:

Topic: Third culture kids

Sources:
Bowman, Darcia Harris. “Identities Blur for 'Third-Culture Kids.” Education Week 20.34 9 May 2001.

Ebbeck, Marjory. Transitions: third culture children. Australian Journal of
Early Childhood 30.31 Sep 2005
--- “The experiences of third-culture children.” Global migration and education: Schools, children, and families. Leah Adams, ed. Mahwa: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2006.

Fritz, Jean. Homesick, my own story. New York: Putnam, 1982.

Pollock, David C. The third culture kid experience:
growing up among worlds. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, 1999.




Reflection: I really liked The third culture kid experience : growing up among worlds it gave me some ideas about how broad this sub culture is. I think that one of the things that I may need to do it to focus my research a little a at this point. The book’s focus was mainly on immigrants in Australia and Denmark, because I don’t have access to people within this subculture, and I think that it might present some other challenges I need to focus on north American and Jamaican especially maybe.
One thing it also mentioned was missionary kids. While that was really interesting I don’t think that is the focus that I want to take. I think that kids of missionaries probably even have a more separate subculture that is more focused on religion family life etc. The bibliography in this book though lead me to three or four other great sources I think I want to check out as a part of my process.

Intro to Research

Based on the research lesson we had today in the library take the word you’ve chose and research the word in 5 separate sources. In your research you should be looking for things like explanations about the word or idea, history, etymology, importance of etc***
Once you’ve completed your research write a short 300-400 word summary, of what you’ve learned about your word, in this summary you will need to use parenthetical citations. This due Friday February 29th no later than 11a.m.

These parenthetical citations will be linked to the next part of your assignment. Using those 5 source create an annotated bibliography. For guidelines on how to do this see pages 144-45 and 167-168 in The Everyday Writer. You will submit a print out of this annotated bibliography on Monday March 10th

Please note you cannot use Google, Wikipedia or any other internet search engines to complete this project.
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*** Please note if you are researching a word, you cannot just find an article where the word appears.

Have a wonderful Spring Break!

The Wrap Up

Hope your final drafts are going well, please email me if you have any questions. Enjoy this video as a final funny end to our hip hop culture unit, let me know what you think. Enjoy your weekend.

Who am I?

Do some research on the author of your text. Find out what else they’ve written, sung etc (if you are doing a film look at the director). Next find out anything you can about their lives, their backgrounds, their political beliefs or passions. Try to locate the information in more than one source to confirm its validity. Once you’ve located this information consider how you might use this to help to talk about the author’s ethos in the text you are using for your paper.

On your blog write in a 300 word entry NOT about you found but the process you went through to find that information. Where did you look, and why did you decide to look where you looked. What were some of the advantages and disadvantages to looking the place you did?

This is due on Friday February 22nd by 11am.

Ps. Feel free to use anything you find to help you in discussing the author’s ethos briefly in your paper, just don’t go overboard and remember to always cite your sources!

Exploring...

Go to the library and find one of the sources from the reference list in “The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Hip Hop: A Cultural Sociology of Gangsta Rap Music” by Alexander Riley (pg 34 and 35 in your Course Packet). Read the first couple of pages or paragraphs of the book, and the inside flap. Next, see what you can find out about the author. In a 200-300 word summary on your blog tell me why this book might be interesting to you, and what you learned about the author that made them a good candidate for writing this book or article.
If you need help with this assignment ask me, or ask a reference librarian, we will both be HAPPY to help!

Due Friday February 15th at 11am.

Hip Hop Culture: An introduction

Watch this video and we will discuss it on Monday.




Also do some research on some of the artist we heard in class today (Click on ther names to see links to their videos)

Bouchées Doubles - Lis nos coeurs

The Streets- Lets Push Things Forward

Dizzee Rascal – Flex


Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke

shi 360 - "kmo hayot"

See what you can find out about one of these artists. How do their larger culture associations define this other culture (namely hip hop culture) that they are a part of. Entries can be about 300 words, this is due Monday February 11th by 11am.

Peer Review: the aftermath

On your blog respond in a 200 word entry about how your peer review went. What worked well, what didn’t? What might you do differently next time?


***** Just a quick reminder, Feb. 6th is upon us! By that date you should have read and left comments on one blog entry for two different classmates.

Getting Started

Hi everyone,
Here are the quotes we used in class today to get you start thinking about your paper topics. Remember you don't want to argue any of the specifics of these quotes, but use them to help you consider questions that might eventually become your claim. Have a great weekend

o “College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink”

o “If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk

o “College is a refuge from hasty judgment. ~Robert Frost

o “A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.” ~Craig Kilborn

o “It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” ~Albert Einstein

o“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” ~ Frank Zappa

o“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.” ~ Woodrow T. Wilson

o“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”~ Dr. Carl Sagan

College Life?

a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.



Let me know in the comments section what you think.

A red herring stuck on the bandwaggon

Last week and early this week you’ve been reading about logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are errors in logic in an argument that make an argument fall apart. As we watch PCU in class on Monday I’d like you to consider what argument the film is making and identify one logical fallacy.
By Wednesday January 30th at 11am please choose one logical fallacy and on your blog, tell me what fallacy you identified in the film and explain it (either by describing the scene or typing out a quote) This entry will not need to be 500 words.

Into the Wild

This week we started talking about college culture and how it is represented both in the media and in society (see post below for examples), however as we discussed in class the picture we are presented often isn’t the reality.

Chris McCandless aka Alex Supertramp was a 21 year old Emory grad who seems to rail against every portrayal we’ve been presented of college students thus far. McCandless’s story inspired reporter Jon Krakauer to write the article “Death of Innocent,” then the book Into the Wild about McCandless, which last year inspired a film of the same name.

Read the handout “Death of an Innocent,” the original piece Krakauer wrote about McCandless for Outside magazine and in essay form respond on your blog to one of the following questions:

• Is McCandless’s story so sensational/controversial because it doesn’t match the stereotype we usually see for college students?

• Do McCandless’s beliefs or actions represent on a small scale some of the ideas and beliefs that are on college campuses?

• Could a character like McCandless exist today or has society changed so much in the past 15 years that our primary goals are economic?


Use specific examples from the article to support your arguments. Please follow the directions carefully and review the Blogging 101 handout for guidelines. Please remember blogs that don’t meet the guidelines receive a grade of 0. Blogs are due by 11am 1/28/08

College Culture 101

On Wed we begin our unit looking at college culture. Here are some things that I found when I started searching the internet for information about the perceptions of college students. What do you think?






“You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does..."”
~Tom Petty quotes

“College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”
~David Wood quotes

“College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.”
~George Gobel

AIDS and Advertising

On your blog write an entry arguing about what strategies this ad used to appeal to consumers, or if you think it even appealed to consumers at all.
Try to make sure you include a claim in your argument. Remember that the basis for argument if you opinion!
This is due on Wednesday Jan. 23rd by 11am.

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