I used American Literary History to write my journal paper. I ran into a lot of issues attempting to write this paper, that I had no control over. The first issue was reading all of the articles in the journal. Some of the articles had up to 30 pages of long, technical jargon that I didn’t initially understand. I had to go back and read them. Re-reading took a long time. With my other classes and homework that I had to deal with, reading all of the articles seemed impossible.
Then, I had no idea where to start. I wanted to mention the articles that had similarities first, and then talk about how they related to each other. I found that a few of the articles talked a lot about criticism in the media, so I explain each of the articles and then made a connection. The other articles were rich in content that were unrelated to criticism, so I discussed those separately.
I absolutely hated doing the annotated bibliography. After I complained and bitched my way through it, I actually found it helpful for when I was re-writing and revising my final paper. I forgot to incorporate the page numbers in my paper. Instead of having to look up the journal again, I just referred back to my bibliography to find the page numbers of the articles. Having the annotated bib was actually a great source.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
YouTube Videos
Today I looked at numerous YouTube videos. My goal was to try and find something controversial and interesting. With YouTube, there are so many videos to search so it was hard to find a place to start.
The first topic that I wanted to search was about my major, which is journalism. I figured since there is so much talk about how journalism is dead (or dying) that this would be good topic. I found a few videos that I may could have used, but they were all too long. I couldn't really find any videos that had a meaningful message, so I moved on the next topic.
My partners' major is math, so she wanted to search for something in that category. Specifically, she was interested in how girls and boys compare in math, and how there is a stereotype that boys are better than girls in math in grade school, as well as middle and high school. We found a few videos in this category as well, but nothing that would make for a good presentation.
Lastly we decided to search ads. Political ads normally have a lot of hidden and interesting meanings behind them. We found campaign ads that were all great. We searched videos about social networks as well, and found a good one about about Facebook. We choose this one because everybody is familiar with Facebook, and it's probably a clip that most people haven't seen.
The first topic that I wanted to search was about my major, which is journalism. I figured since there is so much talk about how journalism is dead (or dying) that this would be good topic. I found a few videos that I may could have used, but they were all too long. I couldn't really find any videos that had a meaningful message, so I moved on the next topic.
My partners' major is math, so she wanted to search for something in that category. Specifically, she was interested in how girls and boys compare in math, and how there is a stereotype that boys are better than girls in math in grade school, as well as middle and high school. We found a few videos in this category as well, but nothing that would make for a good presentation.
Lastly we decided to search ads. Political ads normally have a lot of hidden and interesting meanings behind them. We found campaign ads that were all great. We searched videos about social networks as well, and found a good one about about Facebook. We choose this one because everybody is familiar with Facebook, and it's probably a clip that most people haven't seen.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Strengths/weaknesses of student papers
Reading the paper "Home-Schooling Opposed to Public Schooling", my first reaction was that the title was inappropriate for the what the body of the paper is about. Reading the title, it seems that the article is solely about home-schooling, and sending kids off to public schools, and not the notion that home-schooling is "unschooling".
The transition between each paragraph was good. It seemed to flow in an organized manner. At the end of the first paragraph, the author states which devices she will use in the body of the paper, then executes exactly what she says.
I was indifferent about how the author used a lot of quotes. A lot of my classmates said that the author used too many quotes, but I thought the quotes backed up the point that he/she was trying to make. I do think that there were a lot of quotes, but he content of them were good for the article.
In "A Rudy Awakening", I think this article was well-written. The difference between this student paper and the other's is that this one was very focused and planned. I liked the ananlysis of the title. It's simple play on words, but it was a good choice because this ananlysis gives you an idea of what the article is about.
In profreeding our student papers, I wished that I could have gotten one-on-one commentary for my paper. This paper was surprisingly more difficult to write than what I expected. I'm normally good writing papers, but since my major has changed to journalism, the focus hasn't been on how many pages you write; it's more content focused and if all the information is in a chronological order of importance.
The transition between each paragraph was good. It seemed to flow in an organized manner. At the end of the first paragraph, the author states which devices she will use in the body of the paper, then executes exactly what she says.
I was indifferent about how the author used a lot of quotes. A lot of my classmates said that the author used too many quotes, but I thought the quotes backed up the point that he/she was trying to make. I do think that there were a lot of quotes, but he content of them were good for the article.
In "A Rudy Awakening", I think this article was well-written. The difference between this student paper and the other's is that this one was very focused and planned. I liked the ananlysis of the title. It's simple play on words, but it was a good choice because this ananlysis gives you an idea of what the article is about.
In profreeding our student papers, I wished that I could have gotten one-on-one commentary for my paper. This paper was surprisingly more difficult to write than what I expected. I'm normally good writing papers, but since my major has changed to journalism, the focus hasn't been on how many pages you write; it's more content focused and if all the information is in a chronological order of importance.
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