10 Class THU OCT 06
Don’t know P.J. O’Rourke? Want to? Read this
Wake Up
What does music look like?
“The Allegretto” from Beethoven’s 7th Symphony:
A Note about the Process.
- The purpose of assigning a Hypothesis very early in the semester was not to put you behind or thwart your progress, it was to get the ball rolling.
- You identified a topic. It wasn’t well-defined or as sharp as it would need to be to support an academic argument, but it was SOMETHING meaningful that prompted you to begin to explore source material.
- From here, the process is cumulative and flexible. Instead of wasting your time “brainstorming” about your vague notion, you start to read in your area of interest. From here, the process is cumulative and flexible. And repetitive. Instead of wasting your time “brainstorming” about your vague notion, you start to read in your area of interest. From here, the process is cumulative and flexible. And repetitive. Instead of wasting your time “brainstorming” about your vague notion, you start to read in your area of interest.
- AS YOU GATHER AND INVESTIGATE SOURCES, your vague notion begins to crystallize. You start to have ideas, find angles, develop theories, encounter surprising details you can’t wait to share!
- You gather the best of those sources into your White Paper and cluster them around WHATEVER HAPPENS TO BE YOUR BEST WORKING HYPOTHESIS.
- As the semester continues, you do more research, abandon early ideas, refine your thinking, place new sources into conversation with old sources, and DEVELOP A THESIS YOU CAN PROVE.
- AT NO POINT IN THE PROCESS is there a place where you can get stuck thinking, “I have to solve this problem before I can continue.” Moving forward is the solution.
- You write early drafts of short arguments along the way. First a Definition/Categorical argument. Then a Causal Argument. Finally, a Rebuttal argument, all based on your developing thesis.
- Each of these arguments can be revised as many times as you wish, always for grade improvement.
- Eventually, the entire project coalesces into a single 3000-word, well-researched, carefully argued Research Position Paper that proves a single thesis.
Housekeeping
CATEGORIZE
- The Bitagaming Example
- Follow this link to The Sentence.
Old Business
Late Assistance on the PTSD Claims
Sample Claims Analysis:
Consider these claims, some obvious, others hidden
When Caleb was finally screened for the severity of his TBI, Brannan says he got the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system, which serves more than 50,000 veterans.
— “finally screened” means that according to Brannan or the author or both, Caleb should have been screened long before. It suggests that the VA was negligent in delaying his testing.
— “the severity of his TBI” clearly contains the claim that he in fact has some degree of TBI. The fact that he hadn’t until then been screened for it means nobody knew for sure that he did, but the author makes that claim.
— “Brannan says” means that the author has not independently verified Caleb’s score or where it ranked against all other screenings.
— “the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system” is offered as Brannan’s claim that her husband is suffering more than almost anyone. Considering her vested interest in promoting this perspective, we have to be at least a little suspicious of the ranking.
— “which serves more than 50,000 veterans” gives the impression that Caleb was hurt worse than 50,000 other veterans. But let’s be clear. Many of these 50,000 will not have served in combat at all. Many will not have had active engagement with enemy troops on the battlefield. Many of those who did see active fighting will not have been near explosive devices. So we’re not comparing him to 50,000 TBI sufferers.
I’ve been very upfront about requiring you to respond to feedback, but disappointed that so few of you are taking me up on that offer (threat). Perhaps you’re not receiving Notifications when you get a Reply to your posts. Let’s spend one minute to review that process.
Early Warnings about Hypotheses
Most of us have now chatted about your hypotheses, so this little section is directed at students who haven’t conferenced. For them, I offer some warnings about common Hypothesis warning signs.
A COMMON PROFESSOR OBJECTION
Your proposal for a hypothesis is risky, MyStudent, because OVERLY POPULAR topics like the one you propose pose three very real problems:
1. WORNOUT TOPIC. The arguments about them are so completely exhausted there is very little new another paper can add to the discourse.
2. PLAGIARISM RISK. The ready availability of research papers for sale create a very tempting situation for students who feel pressured to finish something original at the end of the semester.
3. RISK OF FAILURE. More than one of my students have failed the course by borrowing heavily from papers on marijuana legalization, violent video games, an end to abortion, and the negative effects of social media on the mental health of youth.
YOUR PROFESSOR’S GO-TO ADVICE
My approach to anyone interested in these broad topics is threefold.
1. I try strenuously to guide them away from the topic toward something fresh and untrodden.
2. If that fails, I help them craft a unique perspective on the topic that avoids most of what’s already been written and researched.
3. If that fails, I demand very strong, very early, and well-documented evidence of original research before the halfway point of the semester. Students who show they’re doing their own work before the end of the semester mitigate the appearance that they might be trying to copy their way to a finished product.
4. If those steps fail, so too, usually, does the student.
The White Paper Task
BOY RECEIVING POLIO VACCINE DURING MASSIVE ONE-DAY VACCINATION DRIVE
- Your Professor’s White-Paper-in-Progress
- 5 New Sources
- Link to sources in your White Paper
- Sketch the Bibliographic data
- Purposefully Summarize New Sources
- Use Research Tips to find New Sources at Google Search or Rowan’s Campbell Library Database
- We’ll cover “Research Tips” on THU OCT 06 (That’s today.)
New Business
Linking to Sources
If you’ve tried to import links into your posts to guide readers to a source, you may have noticed they can be super-long and clumsy, like this:
URL BEFORE BITLY
Help is available from any number of free link-shortening sites such as bit.ly and 3.ly.
URL AFTER BITLY
- Navigate to any website with a long url.
- Copy the url onto your clipboard. OR copy the super-long url from the block above.
- (Ctrl+C, or ⌘+C, or right-click plus Copy function)
- Navigate to a link-shortening site.
- bit.ly or 3.ly or tinyurl.com
- bit.ly requires a free account
- 3.ly and tinyurl.com will permit immediate shortening without an account
- Paste your long url link into the provided url field.
- Choose the “shorten link” command (language may vary).
My tinyurl results: https://tinyurl.com/67chfcwb
My 3ly results: https://3.ly/afntH
My bitly results: https://bit.ly/34NFhep
Protocol/Mechanics
- The Recent Comments section of the sidebar should look representative of the most interactive members of the class. Success in this course means engaging in the recursive process of writing (incorporating the ideas of others, synthesizing them with your own, sharing the results with the World Laboratory of Ideas, and suffering—I mean celebrating—the reactions of others, incorporating those new ideas, and so on).
- This sort of conversation should be happening in the feedback cycles for your White Paper.
- When it does, your avatar will find a regular spot in the “Recent Comments” section of the blog, where it belongs as often as possible.
- Do not wait for your Professor to initiate these dialogues.
- However, in many cases, your Professor has already initiated these dialogues and is impatiently awaiting your engagement.
- When you feel lost, need clarification, want to bounce a new idea off of someone, need help finding a source (or knowing what terms to search for), drop a comment on your White Paper or on whichever of your posts is most appropriate.
Lecture/Demo
Research Tips
I can’t find any sources!
alwaystired247
AnonymousStudent
azntaco
beforeverge
BigBabyBaller
bitagaming
breakingbad1820
Caravan
cinderella1013
davidbdale
Yankeelover18
fatboy489zt
giantsfan224
glacierfreeze21
gobirds17
green0728
gymrat230
Gir
jerseymikes1106
jesusisking1738
jetsfan806
Kenneth Alex Krug
manipulator66
mercythyhealer14
McCormick Karner
mochaatrain
oni
powerranger
peanut2348
pinkcottoncandy4
princess01430
redbird1123
rubes1256
shxrkbait
sillyinternetperson
soulpond47240
spatel8267
stingingcrib5
tacotyphoon
thepersonindisguise
usmnt23
worldofjuice999
xephos1
Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
Every highschool always had basic humanity types
The way we read text and music is left to right
The video shown was displaying music but it had 4 different parts of music playing and we watched each part do its own and how it contributed to the whole song.
The process is cumulative when it comes to the thesis and research
The zoom meeting I had with professor hodges helped me figure out a topic on my paper.
A dead end means you’re looking for something specific.
One sentence can have several different types of claims. If you read the sentence too quickly you will not catch it , but if you take time and analyze the sentence you will most likely find more than one claim.
Overly popular topics can lead to plagiarism which is not good
Oral vaccines do not require the person who is giving the vaccine to be a medical professional.
They are volunteers , and have a chance of getting shot by taliban if they are recognized.
The sidebar should be used more , by being interactive on the blog. This will also help one be successful in class.
Utilizing the resources Rowan offers like the writing center is good because it can improve your writing skills , and it’s nice to just have someone who can help you or look over your papers. It is also included in our tuition so it makes sense to utilize it.
The Westboro Baptist Church group has very hateful tactics.
Using a child to represent what an adult is thinking is cowardly to me because a child as young as the one in the picture does not understand what any of that means so why use them to get a point across. If you feel that way as an adult then you wear the shirt and hold the signs.
I know there is freedom of speech , but going to military funerals and portraying those hateful things about someone who has lost their life and has served the country is just wrong and should not be done.
– To update that process , do not think about your topic but instead talk about it.
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– be open to broadening your search do not generalize your search
Sounds like I triggered some strong emotions with my description of the WBC. I’m sorry I didn’t hear more of this from you during class. Maybe I don’t leave enough space for students to express themselves.
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-Professor will be there to support you, but you must continue to search for sources and keep working on supporting whatever your hypothesis comes to be
-looking for whatever you can find, turns out to be the things that you can prove
-research with an open mind and be open to change if you find something that proves against your initial claims
-one word can completely change the meaning of your sentence or paragraph
-make it clear whether you are passing off the information or if you truly believe what is being stated
-https://tinyurl.com/4m6znj8f (url to google doc of class notes)
-You can hide the long links behind titles of words that can be clicked on to link
-quote title of articles
-Make sure to choose that articles open in a new tab so it is much easier for your readers
-if struggling, use writing center for resources and help with writing your papers
-looking for specific evidence proving your thesis simply proves information and assumptions that have already been proven
-you must write down all thoughts as they come and then go back and edit it
Good Note:
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The quote that is said by PJ O’Rourke about spending money like no tomorrow in my opinion is a little crazy because you got to remember that there are always times that you may need the money for something that happens unexpectedly.
After doing the white paper it is good to look back at the rabbit hole situation because it shows how to interpret how you should feel when researching for your hypothesis.
The process of the hypothesis and research is cumulative so you are able to change your mind. You should never find a dead end when searching to prove your hypothesis and also looking for an argument that goes against your hypothesis. I hope this doesn’t happen to me as I am liking the path that I am going on right now.
Many sentences may cause you to look a little deeper because a lot of sentences have more than one claim in each sentence. The ability to find the claims would also give the reader a better understanding of what the author is trying to share with the readers.
Some hypothesis topics are dangerous because they can be worn out, lead you to plagiarize, and increase your ability to fail. The best way to avoid that is by communicating with the professor about your hypothesis and your research process.
The best way to be successful in this course is by keeping in constant communication with the professor. The best way is by commenting back and forth with the professor to get a good understanding of what should be improved.
You’re doing great so far, NJDevils. Keep on keeping in touch!
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Notes:
-Watching the music notes being visually represented added something to the music that made it more enjoyable.
-Finding a new hypothesis during research is great news.
-The process is cumulative.
-Keep following leads.
-Dead ends are dead ends only when you stop looking.
-Some points in thesises are worth looking into. Vague language might change the impact of the author’s words.
-worn out topics
-plagiarism
-too much borrowing
-the polio vaccine can be give using drops. Unfortunately, the taliban will shoot people who give the vaccine out.
-link shortners make internet links take up much less space.
-big links are distracting, and you want to keep your reader on your work.
-attaching a link to a title is another way to resolve this
-conversations are essential to smoothen out ideas.
-if you have something to say, say it early.
-Make relationships at the writing center
-Westboro Baptist Church desplays homophobic signs at military funerals using kids
-if you find a dead end, your search is too narrow
-Tiger woods is a dream endorser
-echoing other people’s ideas is a failure.
Good note about dead ends. Well, Tiger WAS a dream endorser. 🙂
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-P.J. O’Rourke was a journalist, He started out writing pointedly low comedy at National Lampoon in the 70s. Rest in Peace.
-The number 16 has 4 notes playing from 4 players at the same time. You can’t do better than Beethoven
-The reason that we had to do a hypothesis very early was to get the ball rolling which means that we wanted to get a head start
– “Brannan says” means that the author has not independently verified Caleb’s score where it ranked against all other screenings
– There are worn out topics that there is something about them that are so completely exhausted there is very little new another paper can add to the discourse
– There were links for making a tiny url. We had to navigate any website that had a long url. We also had to copy the super long url in the space.
-`This sort of conversation should be happening in the feedback cycles for all of our White Paper assignments
-The student was looking in the wrong place. His technique was not right at all and he was looking for direct testimony from somebody that the WBC were creating enemies for their cause.
-The effects of negative information transference in the celebrity endorsement relationship, the source is a journal.
– Listen carefully for researchable topics not immediately named in your own thesis. Use whatever search engine works best for you
These are your best Notes so far, Bubba.
They’re specific and detailed; they read like very short Purposeful Summaries.
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Research tip
Keep digging
Doing the hypothesis in the beginning is to get the ball rolling
Won’t waste time brainstorming will just keep gathering info
When Caleb was screened for his TBI we were misled with the number 50,000 veterans. In reality we do not know how many people were scanned so by the author saying he scored second lowest, it doesn’t really mean much considering we don’t have a scale.
It’s not factual
It is qualitative
Risky hypothesis
Overly popular topic
Worn Out topics
Parroting things you read that are not yours
You want to present new material
Use short links
Look cleaner
Cancelation makes people retreat not reform
Searches can’t be narrow
Personality reflected in expressing an opinion affect how the reader feels
Talk about your topic
Your head starts to work when you have to communicate your hypothesis
Use a search engine that works for you
I like this specific reminder of how many claims a sentence can contain.
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Assigning a hypothesis so early helped to get the ball rolling for our papers.
Looking at where your sources got their information from can be beneficial to you to finding more information to prove your hypothesis.
Almost every adverb is an evaluation.
Overly popularized hypotheses come with a risk of plagiarism.
Which also makes a risk of failing.
Early drafts and early work makes it easier at the end to complete the research paper.
Trying to shove it into one day’s work is not beneficial to your grade or quality of work.
Linking a text to the title of an article looks better than pasting a big URL into your work.
Thesis should be narrow but not your research.
If you find a dead end in your research, your searches are too narrow.
Having a brief conversation about your struggles with research can expand your search bar to finding new sources.
Talk about your thesis with someone who cares (professor)
Terrific Notes. Every line is good advice.
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– While researching initial ideas won’t end up as final ideas. Research topic and try to come up with unique results. Aversion therapy is fairly different but there might even be more bizarre ways to stop smoking. Smoking until you puke, eating cigarettes, or getting beaten up are good potential ideas.
– Three ways that you can receive an F on the hypotheses. Worn-out topic, try not to have a basic and simple ideas to prove. do deeper research to find new interesting results. Aversion therapy seems ok for now for mine. Plagiarism, seems pretty straightforward, just don’t copy stuff you find on articles. I usually only like taking statistics from sources or basic ideas. Try to think of new and unique topics – will make it easier to research as well.
– Try to have conversations/mini debates with the White Paper because it helps formulate ideas better and gives new perspectives on your claims. If you are stuck, hearing different opinions can give you new ideas on where to continue. Personally, I find stuff like this extremely helpful because I often get stuck while researching.
– While looking into “username” and his research, a lot of helpful lessons arise. One is that don’t be too specific when asking questions and too fixated on looking for one answer. Keep questions broad so that you can gain a lot of different perspectives. Another is that Google Scholar and Campbell Library are very good search engines when finding new sources.
Thorough and thoughtful.
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-It is interesting to not only listen to music, but also visualize it as it is playing
-Research is like going down a rabbit hole and finding a puppy, you go looking for what you think you expect and end up finding something much more surprising
-The Process is flexible
– whatever happens to happen, is always good
– those dead ends are always dead because you don’t find what you are looking for
– “he got the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system, which serves more than 50,000 veterans”
– Caleb’s score was second worse out of 50,000 ?
– Caleb should have been screened a long time ago
– the fact that Caleb was not screened, means that no one knew the severity of his TBI
– gives that impression that Caleb was hurt more than 50,000 other veterans
Worn out topic- this topic has been used so much, there is nothing new to say about them
Plagiarism risk- papers that are available for sale is tempting for students
Risk of Failure- students have failed the course by borrowing a lot of information from different types of paper
https://tinyurl.com/5swz7k89
Recent comments- most interactive members of the class
– the appearance of a celebrity reflects the value and credibility of the message
– tiger woods helped people pay more attention to golf
-if someone agrees exactly with your hypothesis, then you have failed
– a negative view from someone else can impact how you feel about something
You created a tinyurl to a reading of my play. 🙂
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2/21/2022
During the wake-up section of the class, we watched a video of music. Music looks like a combination of motion and color that blends together with the sound of the music. A visual representation of music can vary by perspective and way of thinking about the beat and rhythm of the song playing.
During class, we went over the process of creating our three thousand word paper. We started off by getting the ball rolling by making sure we have a topic that is narrowed down and is discussed by having a discussion with Professor Hodges. There are different ways we can think about our topic by using resources to help us create a great hypothesis. With a good hypothesis, we can prove our thesis to be correct.
There are some hypotheses that are very risky, especially those who are overly popular that there is no new information to find about them. Make people agree with what you have to say. Make sure you are not causing plagiarism and make sure you create your own sentences with unique perspectives. Revise work to show improvement.
There was a picture shown of a child getting an oral vacation in India that really caught my eye. It was crazy to hear how 1 out of 3,000,000 children become paralyzed from the vaccine. Volunteers are used to giving children these vaccines even when they are not qualified and sometimes can be shot by the Taliban if there is a visual of them. This was just an interesting story to include in the lecture that really got me thinking how good things can be viewed negatively by anyone and cause the idea of hate to rise.
To shorten the links for our resources we can use 3.ly or tinyurl.com to do so in a quick manner. To cite our resources we have to write our title and right-click to press the link and make it link behind your title and select open in a new tab. The sources we use should not be narrow but rather a lot broader to keep our options the main focus. Apply what you have learned to your specific thesis used for your topic.
There is SO MUCH that is counterintuitive about the battle to eradicate polio. Having studied it for years makes me think everything is probably full of counterintuitivity if we are open to it.
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Notes class 2-21
Keep gathering sources- don’t waste time brainstorming
There are risky hypotheses- stay away
Oral vaccines are inexpensive and you don’t need to be a medical professional to administer
Tinyurl: heres my tiny url link to this site : https://tinyurl.com/44tnyzns
Comment more on things so the sidebar has more photos than just the professors
Writing center:
Free resource for other students to help with writing assignments
Research tips:
Can’t find any sources?
Thesis should be narrow but searches should be open ended
Rather than searching for your topic- search for more broad topics
Not necessarily looking for someone to prove your thesis but papers that prove underlying causes that can in turn prove your hypothesis
E.G for the WBC hypothesis, another area of search could be the effect of celebrity endorsers
Tiger Woods: “Dream endorser”
How can you get a restricted resources?
Type the title into the campbell library database- theyll give you access to some articles that would otherwise cost money
Good to remember this example:
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My Notes;
The Process; As you gather your sources, you will begin to truly understand and crystallize your ideas. At no point will the process be a place here you get stuck thinking.
Claims Feedback; Some claims can be hidden within larger claims. These small claims can be as few as just two words.
Bit.ly and tinyurl; these websites just take very long URLs and make them shorter. I would assume this is for papers or sources so that they don’t take up too much space in a paper.
Research tips: talk about the thesis until you raise new questions in which you can search and find sources similar to those questions, maybe not the specific topic. Try different words similar for the databases to come up with new sources. Such as how Celebrity endorsements promote mass sales of the brand the celebrity endorsed, was able to be related back to the topic.
You’ve written reminders of good writing tips.
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Our Monday morning started with the calming classical music of Beethoven, and the representation of music through shapes and color. You were able to see how each different instrument compliments each other, and the complexity of that Beethoven piece. Discussing the process of our research paper. This is a big task, I never had to write such a big paper before. So it is always in my mind to think about this assignment and to not fall behind. But we have been going through a cumulative process. It is a flexible process though which is important to note. As my dad loves to say to me: fall down seven times, get up eight. On the same note of our papers hypotheses can be risky if they are a popular topic. We are on the hunt for new ideas, not worn out topics. It can also cause plagiarism, or failure. We need to drive ourselves into directions we never thought we would find ourselves. We began discussing how to create shorter links, instead of having gigantic links. By using a site such as tinyurl.com you can copy and paste them in and make them shorter. In order to succeed in this class being engaged is an important part, and having frequent conversations with our professor. Being an active member of this class will only benefit us in this class. Another benefit discussed in class today was the writing center here at Rowan University. By creating a relationship with a skilled writer can help in the long run, even for future years. Our lecture today also went through research tips, when we can not find anything. I was very relieved when I saw we would be discussing this topic today, because I too find myself not only in this class having difficulty finding sources. When searching for your thesis and do not find what you’re looking for, it may seem like you don’t know what to do next. But it is actually a good thing, because it is your original idea that you get to prove yourself. Then you can raise questions that can help support your original thesis. Search general, but apply it to your specific topic.
Have you had this experience yet?
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RIP P.J. O’Rourke
Subscribe to Smalin on YouTube for visual representations of music
Claims
Second-worst of 50,000 veterans or second-worst of everyone who has been scored? Misleading.
Hypothesis Warnings
Worn out topics can lead you to be a part of the audience, rather than the speaker.
Exhausted material leads to little new information to be discovered.
KEEP IN TOUCH!
Tiny URL
Use websites like tinyurl or bit.ly to shorten long source links.
My tiny url attempt: https://tinyurl.com/3rfvu58s
Comments
Stay in the loop and be interactive on the blog in order to really succeed
Visit the Writing Center
Research
You’re looking for whatever, don’t narrow your search too much.
Don’t look for someone else with the same hypothesis in order to confirm that you’re right.
Raise questions that can be researched apart from the topic
Talk about your topic!
The thesis is specific, research is general
I like these:
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Quote
The quote by PJ O’Rourke is saying not to live life trying to save money all the time. Moreover, this is because you cannot take the money to the grave with you so don’t be so strict with it.
Wake Up
Music looks like poetry in motion. Moreover, a bunch of different colors and movements.
When going down the rabbit hole and finding a rabbit, then prove the rabbit. If you end up finding a puppy then prove the puppy.
Early warnings about hypotheses
Avoid worn-out topics, plagiarism, and the risk of failure.
Worn-out topics don’t allow enough room to communicate any new ideas.
Plagiarism is unacceptable and results in failure.
New Business
Insert long links into service like bitly to shorten them up.
https://bit.ly/3h4oshK
Protocol/ Mechanics
Respond to comments on the paper
Initiate dialogue with the professor.
Strive to have a regular spot in the “Recent Comments”.
Research Tips
Do not have such a narrow search, instead, be more open-minded when searching.
Do not find sources that explain exactly what your hypothesis claims. Instead find sources to support your claim.
Someone who agrees with you proves thesis FAIL.
Talk about the thesis to avoid this issue.
Find relevance in sources that do not appear to have any correlation at first glance.
When you run into a paywall, use library databases to find sources.
This is hard to accept, but I hope you can embrace it.
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COMP II Notes – 2.21.22
“It’s better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.”
Liked this quote; live in the present*
Going down a rabbit hole is good
Finding something/anything during research is good
Wake up:
Classical music isn’t my taste; but I can appreciate Beethoven from time to time.
Interesting see vibrancy and movement in the music
Went over claims
Found out there are many hidden claims within an obvious claim
Consider the claims everyone is making
Worried about my hypothesis; overused topic (negative effects of social media)
Learned how to make long website sources/links shorter
May be helpful in the future
Note/Reminder: Start and maintain a conversation in the comments section
Had trouble finding sources for the White Paper assignment
So the research tips lecture was helpful
Went over how to use/take full advantage of writing center & library resources
How is this going for you now, Wanda?
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Notes
Research tips:
Gather and investigate your notes you’ll figure out what you can demonstrate and gather the material that you need to demonstrate it.
You don’t want to look for something specific that you can’t find. You need to look for whatever you can find. If you look for something specific you are getting whatever you can find.
Factual claims don’t have to be true
Hypothesis
There are hypothesis that are really risky.
Overly popular pages have a plagiarism risk.
Risk of failure for overdone papers and they just end up as not good papers.
Volunteers come to villages to give children drop polio vaccines. The downside is that one child out of 3 million will be paralyzed out of the group
If your link takes you to the Rowan site then your link is not broken and the teacher can still get the link
To be successful with this course you should be interacting with your professor. If you have a specific thing to say, say it early and test it out.
Nothing better than your research colleague to get feedback from other than our professor.
Share your PTSD claims to figure out what your professor wants.
It’s readily available at the writing center
If you find a dead end it’s because your search technique is wrong
It’s a dead end that someone already proved your thesis.
If you find a repetition of your hypothesis that’s a failure.
Until you try to communicate your opinion to someone else is when you start working hard. What you already put on paper is or no use.
Use library databases
Or Google scholar
Or wikipedia
If you find a source that is valuable to you
Make the search as general as you can make it
Lots of good advice there, f0restrun!
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Class Notes
10/6
-Professor noted that” the process is cumulative and flexible. Instead of wasting your time “brainstorming” about your vague notion, you start to read in your area of interest. From here, the process is cumulative and flexible. And repetitive. Instead of wasting your time “brainstorming” about your vague notion, you start to read in your area of interest. From here, the process is cumulative and flexible. And repetitive. Instead of wasting your time “brainstorming” about your vague notion, you start to read in your area of interest”
Professor showed us how to categorize our post
Went over some same claims
-Three very real problems when showing a hypothesis is
1. Worn-out topic
2. Plagiarism Risk
3. Risk of failure
-Help is available from any number of sources of free link-shortening sites like bit.ly and 3. ly.
-The writing center is available for any type of help
-Research tips
-Talk about the thesis
-Listen to a researchable topic not immediately named in your thesis
-Use any search technique
-If you run into a paywall go to the Campbell Library database
-Read about the value of celebrity endorsement
-Learn to dissociate ourselves from unsavory characters
-Apple evidence
Nice work, Peanut
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This weekend I’m going to start practice openings. This will be in the hope of providing me some clarity into my writing process and what direction to go.
Make sure when posting, we’re adding it to our author category.
IDENTIFYING CLAIMS
Every word in every sentence can be a claim. What provides value and what doesn’t is up for debate.
Shorten our hyperlinks, whether it’s bitly or behind a sentence. It’ll give our writing a much cleaner look. I have to do this for my own white paper.
I’m going to start having more conversations with you in the replies section. I agree with you, you tend to make me think outside the box with the viewpoints you make about my claims.
Research Tips
I’ve been using the Rowan Library to find all of my sources so far. There’s a wide collection of material.
One thing I should consider; has anyone actually written about my thesis, if not that’s great. I can be the first, if that’s the case, I may have to switch the focus of my research to help find supporting evidence that will strengthen my hypothesis.
I think you could find plenty of amateur sources of expressed opinion that steroids should simply be permitted. I’d be surprised if there’s academic material that addresses the situation directly. Be on the lookout for places limits on what IS allowed and what ISN’T. Anything short of an outright ban on performance enhancement is a step toward permissiveness.
Prophylactic Tommy John surgery performed on sound arms? Ritalin to correct a condition is a way to enhance performance, isn’t it? What’s the categorical difference between a vitamin and mineral regimen that promotes faster healing and currently banned substances that promote faster healing?
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By this point in the semester, we should have posted 6 assignments. We have to make sure to put our work in the category titled our username, or we may not get a grade on it. We should also put them under the category of the assignment title.
Our Claim Analysis assignment was due last night. We should have carefully examined each claim in the article and identified what type of claim they were.
Once, a student in this class plagiarized and was suspended. We have to make sure to only use our own work and cite properly. We should not borrow from other papers at all, but especially without credit.
Link-shortening sites make it so links are not super long. This may be useful if we need to paste a link, but it takes up a bunch of space on the page. Bitly is a good recommendation for this issue. You could also attach a link to text by highlighting it on your document and clicking the link icon.
We should have conversations with Professor Hodges in the reply section of our White Paper. We should initiate these dialogues by asking a question and placing the document in the “Feedback Please” section. This will allow us to be able to better debate our topic and specify what it is we are arguing. We can also go to the Writing Center for feedback on our papers. Appointments can be 30 to 60 minutes in person or online.
An example of somebody having a conversation about their topic would be the conversation “Username” had about their topic when they could not find any evidence to support it. They started to think of solutions by talking about their own views and connecting them to the topic. Then, they listed every way their topic could fail. They came to the conclusion that there are similar circumstances to the thing they were trying to describe, but not exactly like them. If we are not able to access an article because of its price, chances are it’s on the Rowan Campbell Library site and will be available to us by logging in.
Nice! You were clearly awake the whole way through!
Almost right: Once, a student in this class plagiarized and was EXPELLED.
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A Note About the Process
We started our hypothesis early in order to get the ball rolling and get things started
Your hypothesis should mean something to you
Instead of brainstorming, accumulate sources in order to shape your thinking
This process is cumulative and repetitive because you keep finding new sources and reshaping your thoughts
All your sources and information will be dumped onto the white paper
Your hypothesis becomes a thesis by the time you finish your paper
No place in the process are you supposed to get stuck
Along the way, we will be drafting a definition/categorical argument then a causal argument then a rebuttal argument all based on our developing thesis
Make sure to reply to feedback
Eventually your paper will become a 3000 word well-researched position paper that proves a single thesis
Housekeeping
Make sure to categorize your posts
Old Business
“Finally screened” means “should’ve happened sooner” which equates to an ethical claim
“The second-worst score in whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system” is a numerical/quantitative claim
We must be suspicious of this statement because Brannan could be more biased towards her viewpoint
Early Warnings about Hypotheses
Your hypothesis might be risky because it could be a worn out topic, it could be a plagiarism risk, or it could be at a risk for failure
If you were to write a paper on legalizing marijuana, there isn’t too much you can really add because it’s been done so many times already
New Business
You can hide super long links to sources by making them into sentence links
Bit.ly and 3.ly can both be used in order to shorten long links
You can make a sentence into a link with the link button
Protocol/Mechanics
Try to interact with your professor and other students and start discussing
You should try to populate the “recent comments” section
Lecture
Make use of the writing center at Rowan
Also be sure to make use of the Campbell Library database for more information and sources
That covers things nicely, Xephos!
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– Approaching half way point of classes.
– As we gather more sources our notion begins to crystallize. Spending too much time trying to find the “right” source can waste a lot of time. “Moving forward” in terms of research is the solution. You may come across something that can help by accident.
– In the future I will have a definition argument, a causal argument, and a rebuttal argument all for the same claim.
-“Finally” is an ethical claim. Finally means “should have happened sooner.”
– Attributive claim could be when someone refers to what someone else mentions.
– A common proposal for a hypothesis can lead to a worn out topic, plagiarism risk, or even a risk of failure.
– Make meaningful dialogue with professor in the comments of posts.
– Vagueness of assertions can lead to the reader being confused or them not understanding the claims at all.
– Start utilizing the services of the writing center so that when they become overwhelmed towards the end of semester, they can potentially prioritize my work.
-Use google scholar to find credible sources.
-Make use of the library. I have access to thousand of free scholarly articles/books.
I’m glad you mentioned this one, GF:
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The hypothesis is no longer a hypothesis throughout the paper. It was only a hypothesis to get you started. Throughout the paper you have to treat the hypothesis as a theory
You have to actually convince the reader that you are right and that the reader is wrong.
When writing down that “somebody said” type of sentence, it is a sort of arms length type of claim where you haven’t verified if it is true or not but just stating that the person has said this claim
It is better to shorten your links with bit.ly instead of just letting the link go on for another page or 2
Don’t try to get in the way of your own language. Make your claim clear and just run with it/ get out of there.
Make sure that you aren’t just echoing somebody else’s thesis and actually make your
own claim for your argument.
Make sure to use the Rowan Campbell library since you are paying for it for a reason. It is a good way to find articles and books to support your thesis.
There’s a lot of good advice here, fatboy!
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* The topic that we have been researching is cumulative and flexible, you can change it as you gain more sources because it changes your thinking
* You shouldn’t get stuck. If you get stuck for any reason, abandon the idea, and find something else because you can waste weeks. If you can break through and find something worth talking about, then go with it
* When writing the essay, there are three things we’re going to write: 1000 words on definition/categorical claim about something in your essay, 1000 words in a casual argument, and finally 1000 words on a rebuttal argument
* Attributive claim is what authors use so they don’t take credit for the information ahead, while giving credit to the someone (In the case of the assignment, the author gives credit to Brannan)
* DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. TAKE TIME TIME AND DO THE WORK. IF YOU USE ANOTHER SOURCE, GIVE THE CREDIT TO THE SOURCE. IT CAN LEAD TO YOU GETTING EXPELLED. DON’T DO IT
* Bit.ly can shorten the URL that us being used. We don’t have to do that, but it’s good that we know about it
* Feedback cycles are important for the white paper. They’re basically conversations with the professor that can help with feedback and edits and things of that nature. The writing center is another resource that can help with your white paper. There are people in the writing center that’ll help out
* The Campbell Library will help you find sources that you cannot access on google scholar. Use it for the white paper
Very thorough, Mercy!
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10/6 Class notes
The purpose of creating a hypothesis early in the semester was to get the class thinking. The hypothesis should be something that we feel passionate about to help push us to explore sources. Some of our early ideas may have to be abandoned as we find new sources and information, but that is what is expected!
We will write short argument drafts based on the thesis we are developing. We will be expected to do a definition/categorical argument, a casual argument, and a rebuttal argument. All of these arguments can be compiled together into our 3,000 paper at the end to work towards proving our thesis.
In order to receive credit for our work, we must properly categorize our work so that Professor Hodges can easily access our work in a timely manner.
An attributive claim would be when an author states some else’s findings, such as Brannan says
If our sources for the research paper are too long, we can use Bitly to shorten the URL.
If you find others disagree with your hypothesis you need to be more specific and clear so that your hypothesis is direct and easily understood.
Utilizing sources such as the writing center will be helpful to receive feedback and guidance on your writing. They will help give you examples and guide you to the right path.
Finding sources to support our hypothesis is not going to be easy or straightforward. We may need to search for keywords that broadly relate to our topic in a way that we can use to compare to our topic. You may also need to rephrase your hypothesis to align with a topic that more sources are available on.
Many sources are available at our disposal, for free, on the Campbell Library website. If we find a source on Google Scholar that we must pay for, search for the title on the campbell library website and you will have access to the article because of the tuition we pay.
Well . . . it doesn’t HAVE TO BE all that difficult. But tangential is a good way to think about good research into a topic that hasn’t been thoroughly used up by other people’s papers.
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– The White Paper will keep growing and new points will be added.
– The hypothesis will eventually become a thesis.
– Just keep moving forward, do not get stuck thinking you have to find a specific source. You can still prove a hypothesis that maybe no one has ever done before.
– There will be three separate 1000 word arguments all based on the developing thesis.
– If you want to keep getting feedback back, you have to respond to the feedback given.
– You have to make sure that your assertions are not vague and that you are saying your point as clearly as you can.
– The Writing Center is a useful source to use as another way to get feedback on your work. They know how to make your paper better and provide a different point of view to view your paper.
– Use Google Scholar and the Rowan Library databases as a way to find sources.
– Sometimes the phrasing you use when looking for sources is off. You have to think more broadly and maybe consider topics that are not exactly what you are looking for, but somehow relate to your thesis. Find a point of view that coincides with what you are trying to say.
– The library databases are a useful tool when an article you want to read is not free on Google Scholar.
I’m a bit amazed how many versions of class notes emphasize different takeaways. Nobody recording this bit quite the way you did, Cinderella. I like it.
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t is more significant to allocate your resources to pursue your interests rather than doing nothing in fear of overextending
Keep on looking into a specific area of interest to get more and more sources until your well is overflowing, and grab the best ones and formulate a thesis with that
Your essay is based on 3 different arguments centered around one idea
You can revise as many times as you’d like in order to seek for a better grade
Make sure you are categorizing your posts. If not it looks very bad on you.
When you want to show a point but do it from an arms length you can make an attributive claim
The more writing you do, the more authentic your paper becomes
Make sure you consult your professor as much as possible. The resource is invaluable.
The Rowan Writing center could help you identify different changes you could make to your paper to make it more readable and better structured.
You may have sources for your topic, but it needs to be discovered through the outskirts, not through broad topics
Raise questions that can be researched that can be correlated to your topic, but not directly
The Campbell library can be a life saver if google scholar does not provide you the actual journal.
I love this phrase:
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A note about our research process. The purpose of assigning the hypothesis early was to get the ball rolling. We identified a topic, it might’ve not been well-defined as it should’ve been but it was something meaningful that prompted you to to explore the source material. As you start to investigate your sources, you start to have ideas, find angles, develop theories, etc. that you share through your White Paper. The hypothesis eventually becomes your thesis and nobody would know what your original was. In the future we will write 3 small short drafts; the definition/categorical, casaul, and rebuttal arguments all based on developing your thesis. The semester long project is a 3000 word essay that is well researched proving your single thesis.
The proposal for a hypothesis can be risky with three real problems. The wornout topic is when you make an argument that is overly used such as Legalizing Marijuanna. Also, that risks you of plagiarizing and failure because your going to have a very hard to from not borrowing information from others’ works. Which isn’t your original work or about your research.
A way to shorten the longer URL’s would be to use bitly. It organizes those long, clumsy citations into a neat short URL.
The Writing Center is a good way to improve your writing. It allows people to give to the rules and mistakes students would typically make with examples. They wouldn’t really proof read your final essay, but give you ideas that would better your writing so you can fix those mistakes yourself. Making connectins with people/going earlier in the semester would really benefit students mostly due to the fact that you would more likely get priority over students who are going at the last 2 weeks.
A research tip when you can’t find sources would be using Google Scholar or the best search engine for you. Instead of getting stuck at a pay wall using the Campbell Library might also benefit you. Not utilizing the Campbell library would be a waste of your tuition mainly due to the fact that you basically already paid for it. The search engine has thousands of peer reviewed articles that are fully reliable with information you might not have known you needed.
Really nice work, Taco.
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Class Notes-
We started on our hypothesis right away to get the ball rolling. The quick start allows for our ideas to grow from something broad to something specific that we can argue. A key is to not use overworn ideas such as abortion, marijuana, etc..
Going forward we should read about out topic. It gets repetitive but we should be able to gather new ideas about our topic from scouring all of the different sources.
Our white paper can be sloppy but it should at least be somewhat organized. Eventually our hypothesis can becomes our thesis.
All three short 1,000 word essays are about our thesis. They are not independent essays about any topic. We will use these to build our final paper. We can revise and change those as many times as we want.
Reminder to put our posts in categories and our user name
Claims Review-
“finally” is a claim. It can be an ethical claim because it should have happened earlier.
A claim like “Brannan says” creates distance from the speaker and the author. You don’t want to take credit for what follows or in some cases be connected to the idea.
“which serves more than 50,000 veterans” This claim is a hyperbole. Writing like this can help trick your reader. It makes you believe his TBI was the second worse out of 50,000 people but that is not the case. The VA just serves 50k people most of those people wont have TBI.
Professor Objection-
Avoid overused topics. You run the risk of plagiarism by stealing ideas and words. The penalties are severe.
Protocol/Mechanics-
We should shorten our long URL’s. It also to make your links open in a new tab.
https://tinyurl.com/app/ is the easiest one to use for this. Just copy and paste.
Vague assertions leave room for interpretation. Dialogue with the professor can help us narrow our ideas into something specific and eliminate this weakness.
Writing center can help us with our papers as well.
Research Tips-
Having a dialogue and answering questions about your topic can lead to a new idea. Additionally, researching topics with a similar idea of argument may stem a new understanding to apply to your writing as well. EX used was about the west boro baptist church creating support for gay rights. Then the writer researched the way people will distance themselves from celebrity endorsers.
The research we find also has their own sources. They are great to use for our papers as well.
Reminder to search for our articles on the library website so we don’t have to spend money.
I’m glad somebody remembered to mention this.
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– Reviewing the Process: identify a topic (hypothesis), cumulate information and adjust your opinion, gather and investigate resources, create a best working thesis, make drafts of short arguments (definition/categorial, causal, rebuttal), revise
– Be sure to remember to categorize posts correctly. They need to be easily accessible for grading.
– “Finally,” is used as a clear Ethical Claim. When giving credit to someone else’s words, it can be said it is an Attributive Claim.
– Be careful not to choose a worn out topic for your hypothesis. Do not plagiarize by taking writing from someone else.
– Work on White Paper, find better scholarly sources.
– Use bitly to shorten the link to sources.
– Reply to feedback or comment as much as needed to have a conversation that can improve your work.
– Research tips: use Google Scholar and the Rowan Library, try to search for more broad information to expand your research, the Campbell Library has a variety of resources are already paid for
Good advice, BeforeVerge
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-Recap on the process over the 3000 word essay. Jump right in for an early hypothesis to get started instead of thinking about how to start. Gather a bunch of sources and just data dump into the white paper. Gathering sources will develop thoughts will reading and summarizing.
-Moving forward is the solution to getting stuck in research.
-Definition,Casual, and Rebuttal argument will ALL be based ON YOUR TOPIC.
-We want to change the readers behavior with our 3000 Research paper.
-CATEGORIZE blog posts
-“Brannan says,” is a claim that keeps an arms length on the information Brennan talks about. Could be called an “arms length claim.” Important claim right there, cause writers use it a lot. They use it alot because it allows the writer to throw in that statement but also keep their distance from the credibility.
-Be careful choosing a common topic. You most likely will be drowned by all the other papers written about it. Almost every you say will have been said already.-
-DON’T PLAGARISE. Might get escorted of the premises and booted. Avoid temptation
-With a long URL link you can either leave it to be a big jumble on your screen, or you can copy the the url and link it to “the sentence.” Since it was addressed in class we should shorten your links. The third option is using bitly, a website that shortens a url.
-Initiate dialogues that will become a back and forth conversation in the feedback process. Professor loves a good back and forth.
-Want third party writing instruction? Then go to rowan writing center.
-When finding sources becomes difficult take a step back. Ask why and what type of situation the topic discusses. What is a similar situation that repeats the argument in your topic. Shift the focus.
-If you find a source that states your thesis and proves it, you lose.
-Use a combination of google scholar and rowan university library to get the sources you need. Rowan library sometimes helps prevent paying $32 for an article that may not be useful.
Not much different from the Notes of many of your classmates, Mocha, but better written and very thorough, nicely phrased.
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College Composition 2
10/06/22
Class Notes
Wake Up
We listened to some Beethoven which I found rather soothing, it kind of gave me energy in a calming way.
Note About the Process
In no way should you say I am stuck because there are many sources to connect to your topic in many different ways.
Make sure you use the best working hypothesis when it comes down to finally writing your paper.
Best working hypothesis should have many sources to back your claim.
Old Business
Reach out to Professor Hodges about the 0 you have for class notes because I am pretty sure I did not put my class notes in the category.
“Brannan says” this is a new claim called an attributive claim. This is when an author gives credit to those who spoke to the author.
“When Caleb was finally” I believe this claim is an ethical claim because of the use of the word finally.
“He got the second-worst score” I thought this was a comparative claim.
“Which serves more than 50,000 veterans” Professor Hodges said that in the text we are not comparing him to 50,000 TBI.
Early Warning
Get another zoom meeting with Professor Hodges so he can help you organize your ideas for your white paper and hypothesis.
Watch for plagiarism risks, worn out topics, and the risk of failure when it comes to your hypothesis.
The more rewriting you do the more originality.
White Paper Progress
You should have 5 new sources
Sketch the Bibliographic data.
Purposefully Summarize New Sources
Use Research Tips to find New Sources at Google Search or Rowan’s Campbell Library Database.
Bit.ly, can help shorten your links for your whitepaper.
Protocol and Mechanics
If you use the comment section this can help you bounce ideas for papers or topics you are going to write about.
Lecture/Demo
The writing center is here to help me with writing papers as in give me grammar and research help.
https://rowan.mywconline.com/
Research Tips
Instead of just using google scholar try using the rowan library.
Make sure you do not research the same words in your search bar the whole time.
Sometimes you just have to find the right words for your search bar that can give you connections to new ideas based on your topic.
Campbell Library gives you access to about 10,000 journals, so there’s a good chance your journal you’re looking for is in Campbell Library’s sources for free.
Best or Worst in the Process
Just make sure you put things in your own words while using your sources to back your words.
—That was Notes for TUE SEP 27. There’s not “category” for Notes. If you posted them, you’ll find them below the Agenda page for 07 Class.
Sorry if I confused you, Juice. You certainly CAN add 5 new sources now, but I haven’t assigned them yet. Beef up your White Paper, maybe revise your Stone Money, do some more research. I’ll be assigning the next 5 sources soon enough.
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Notes October 6
Some reminders about writing, final assignment, and this class is : Hypothesis meant to help us start thinking, not concrete and will certainly continue to be modified. Sources are something we should be diving in more now rather than still trying to refine the overall idea of our paper. We can begin to shape it into something meaningful now.
At the end we will have a Research Position Paper, a paper where you share the position and use your information to defend it. Our paper is a researched argument
Very important to categorize your work in your appropriate name field
Haven’t had a conference yet get on it
Claims can be obvious or hidden and sometimes a lot of thinking has to be done to find out what the author wants you to hear versus what they are actually saying.
Be aware of common topics so you don’t fall in the trap of working with worn out and overwritten material, it can lead easily to plagiarism, and therefore you can fail. So don’t do that.
Add Bibliography to the white paper along with summaries and links to sources
Good place to start a conversation with someone about paper is if the professor isn’t who you want to speak with. The writing center has resources and individuals that you can access.
Don’t make your thesis supporting the other side of your argument, use your sources to go toward your argument. Even if you can’t find a source that directly supports your view, try to think outside the box and refine your search engine.
If you need to gain access to a source try doing it through the Rowan University library website.
Make sure to keep in touch with your professor and consistently keeping up with adjusting your work.
Sounds like you plan to make your professor a part of the process. I’m happy to hear that.
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-Look to change or improve your hypothesis throughout the semester
-Make sure to publish your writing under your username in the categories
-When determining a claim, take time to look at the information and break it down
-If your topic is too broad or used too much, try to look for a topic that is newer and unexhausted
-Shorten your links using bitly, 3ly or tinyurl
-When given the opportunity while shortening your links, click open in new page
-The writing center is a great place to get help with your writing
-Get help earlier rather than later because they won’t have much openings toward the end of the semester
-The Westboro Baptist Church used very hateful tactics
-They would attend military funerals with hateful signs to show their cause
-Use the Campbell library to find sources that you are not able to access through google scholar etc.
I guess my lecture on how to revise your search technique to get around roadblocks didn’t help you much, Glacier.
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The purpose of assigning a Hypotheisis so early was to get the ball rolling
From here on, your white paper is cumulative and flexible
Do not waste your time brainstorming, you should start to read in the area of interest, goes on and on till paper is complete
Change your expectations and abandon on old ideas
At the end of the semester you no longer have hypothesis and instead have a thesis
There should be no point in the semester where you hit a “dead end”, find multiple detours that can get you around
The short papers will contrbute to your 3000 words research paper, they will all be on one topic that you picked
These arguments can be revised as many times as you wish, and will be regraded to improve your grade
Steer away from wornout topics, it has three major risks
Major plagiarism risk and risk of failure
Listen to professors recommendations that will steer you away from topics that have been thoroughly exhausted already by other students/ authors
Remember to you bit.ly to shorten URl, much more attractible in white paper
When professor leaves valuable feedback on your posts, make sure to comment back
This will allow for a conversation to get going and will greatly help your work
Utilize writing center, dont wait till the end of the semester. They are waiting to help you
Sign up online with the link rowan.mywconline.com
Use google scholar to find academic sources, you can then utilize there reference page to find additional articles on the topic you are researching
Very thorough, BBad.
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Claims can really sneak in and I may want to edit my claims paper.
Use the writing center early on.
Get help early and rework papers over and over until they are the best way to say what you want to share.
Expand search terms to find what you’re looking for.
Generalize your hypothesis and you will find more to write about under a broader umberella.
Don’t look for exactly what you’re trying to prove.
Use the Library, it will have any academic journal I may need to write my paper.
I swear as soon as I start reading stuff I will actually enjoy it.
I hope that works out for you, Silly.
Spend a little more time on your class Notes too.
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10/06
A note about the process: Identify a topic then fine tune it, have a conference with the professor about broadening the hypothesis, then find sources related to the topic you’re writing about. Instead of brainstorming, read in an area of interest. As you gather sources the reading should help you find details and observations. Short Papers contribute to your 3000 word paper.
Don’t choose a worn out topic for white paper to risk failure.
White Paper: 5 new sources. Link them to white paper. Sketch the bibliography data then purposefully summarize the source but that is useful. Use research tips like using the Rowan library or even google scholars. Use bitly to shorten source links.
Use the writing center as another source of help.
I never recommended “broadening” a topic. Most are too broad to begin with. But I did recommend rephrasing the search items to discover relevant evidence from unexpected allied fields of study. The WBC paper is still just as narrow as before the evidence from the marketing source.
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At the end of the semester you will have thesis not hypothesis
Be clear on who point of view it is
Choose a interesting topic not a boarding topic and topic that you are going write or that you can talk about
Dont just put a source in there summarize the sourced and people can use the link for clarity
Use the writing the center if need they can help you with your paper
Pretty sloppy Notes, redbird. I apologize if this is your best effort, but I believe and hope you can improve on these Notes.
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10/6
The writing process is cumulative, flexible, and repetitive from now on. At the end of the semester a hypothesis should become a thesis, something provable with definitive conclusions. Short argument papers will all be connected to the main thesis paper.
Make sure posts are in the username category.
Don’t use a worn out topic.
Use link shorteners like bitly or put the link into the title for white paper sources.
Rowan university writing center can be used for essay help.
Research Tips:
Edit search technique- If you are stuck, try talking about your idea. Relate ideas in topics to your message that can be used to support it, even if it is not the specific hypothesis you started with. Relate it to your idea after you’ve collected the evidence.
If you can’t get access from a google scholarly source, try to find it in the Rowan library database.
This is a good summary, Manipulator:
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Hypothesis: Starting reading in my area of interest. Interact with sources and collect info. Follow where they lead you. Change your ideas as you go along, so that you have something new to report. Final paper will be 3000 words, well researched, and carefully argued proving a single thesis.
Claims: many are very hidden. They are hidden in words like “when”, and “says”.
They need to be specific; being the worst cause out of 50,000 veterans is a completely different story than being the worst out of 1,000.
Common Professor Objections: Workout Topic, the arguments are overdone and worn-out. Plagiarism risk, material isn’t original. Risk of Failure, you’d fail for just regurgitating already readily available information.
Go to advice: New and fresh topics. If not a new idea, a new angle on the topic. Show evidence of new research.
White Paper: 5 new sources, link to sources in the white paper. Sketch the bibliographic data, and purposeful summaries for new sources.
Sources: Shorten sources using Bitly. Don’t forget about writing center!
Comments: having a conversation is extremely helpful. Reply to his comments.
“Writing doesn’t care about grammar, its about having a brilliant idea and clear and brief delivery”
Not being able to find sources is a good thing, since it means you are the first to try and prove this specific thing. Finding someone who already proved your thesis isn’t a good thing, since it means you didn’t get to it first and have nothing left to say.
Find an idea that you can use to tie into your own hypothesis. For example, the Westboro Baptist Church and celebrity endorsements. It’s the same idea, that when celebrities endorse something, you want it less. When the WBC harps on something, we don’t want to be associated with them so we defend it. The product gets a popular endorsement just because of the celebrity. Its a completely different idea that we can heavily use to prove our hypothesis.
Talk about the topic enough to be able to branch off onto supporting ideas.
Very perceptive summaries, Oni.
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The beethoven songs looked very repetitive
The purpose of doing hypothesis earlier on in the year was to get ideas to flow rather than just jumping into topic
Now that we have our topic already all that is left it to brainstorm and gather sources for our argument
Drafts are drafts, they are meant to be rewritten pieces of work
3000 word research paper is the end goal
Continue getting feedback
Don’t pick and overly popular topic to discuss
Keep trying in the research process even if what you originally were looking for is not found
I like the example of the whte paper, helps me get and idea of what mine should look like
Links: when you get a link to source they are unusually long and annoying. You can use apps like bit.ly and 3.ly to shorten your citations to simple phrases that look visually more appealing.
Keep discussions going with professor
Various different research methods and sites can be used to get information
This is too vague to be much help, BBB.
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When we try to kill a virus, it will take over and transform to a new type and become stronger.
The bug was not even a bug, it’s a fake bug of the snake’s tail. So it’s like don’t believe what you see with your eyes, but believe in what it does, cause it could be something else we didn’t know.
Rinse well with water and dry hand, what does it mean when it means rinse and dry, and how to fix this sentence to become a complete meaningful sentence. RInse well with water, and dry your hands with a paper towel.
Writing mechanics
Only one main idea for a paragraph, sometimes people put too much idea for a paragraph and it could be a lot information for readers to understand what is going on
Be aware of It and This. Need to provide enough informations not to rely on this and it so reader can’t understand which problems are you talking about
Why we should never use Rhetorical Question, because the readers is already know what are you gonna say
Paragraphs need to be formatted correctly and sectioned. They need to be broken up into separate ideas.
Thinking about mirrors can be really confusing, but visualizing them makes it a lot easier.
Keep talking with professor through comment or email, it will keep you on tracks of your work.
The reason to avoid Rhetorical Questions is that when we ask one, our reader responds with a specific position it may be then too late to talk her out of. Not:
These are clearly Notes from a different class meeting. I’ll credit them to the Notes for OCT 04.
3/4
10/6/22 In-Class Notes
As we gather sources into our white paper, they form around whatever happens to be your working hypothesis of their own volition. The solution to getting stuck in our thinking is just to move forward. We’ll write early drafts of short arguments that will eventually coalesce into our 3000 word research paper.
When the author preempts certain factual or evaluative claims with “Brannan says,” they are also making an attribution claim as they have not verified the information or claim to follow themselves. The difference between what the author has been told by others and what they have verified themselves is important to keep in mind.
We should try hard to avoid the more obvious, widely acknowledged opinions on the topic of our research.
Linking our sources with link shorteners such as tinyurl can often be a good idea. An alternative would be to create a hyperlink, but regardless it’s good to avoid inserting a long, jumbled link into our reference list.
We really should be asking for feedback frequently and responding to any and all of the comments we receive.
The Writing Center is a fantastic resource. It’s absolutely best to get help from them as early as possible and schedule an appointment. Later in the semester they will be bogged down in late or last minute appointments, whereas currently they do not actually have very much to do or many people asking them for help.
As stated time and time again, if finding sources becomes difficult then it might be time to take a step back and reflect on if and how we should shift directions based on what we have and haven’t gotten our hands on. However, this actually isn’t the only solution, because the problem actually may be with the finding as opposed to sources not existing. Improving our searching techniques, such as using Google Scholar or looking to disprove the opposite of our hypothesis instead of only proving our hypothesis. Just searching for something like “Westboro Baptist Church” is not necessarily the best way to seek out sources. The wording we need to enter into the places where we search might be something very different from what we expect. If an article is behind a paywall, we may be able to access it freely from the Campbell Library site.
Remember to use the references of your early sources to find more to add to your list! Wikipedia can be surprisingly useful for this purpose, almost like an alternative to Google Scholar or the library database.
Love these Notes, Caravan.
5/4
Class notes:
– Instead of brainstorming, read about your subject of interest for the white paper.
– For the non-portfolio papers, it’s better to receive feedback after your first attempt in order to see what can be fixed and what you dud well.
– White paper claim: do not use a worn out topic, it gets tiring and it’s already been written on and it’s easy to plagiarize.
– Good writing is not fancy and has many paragraphs, it demands a brilliant idea, clarification and a good structure.
– Research tips: Don’t find someone who already proved your thesis, if you need help contact professor Hodges.
– Short papers will contribute to the long paper.
They’re brief, but they’re sufficient.
4/4
Oct 06, 2022
-Purpose of making a hypothesis. Identifying a topic and then making it worth so that you can begin to explore the source material.
-The process is flexible and cumulative.
-It is a good thought that you start reading the area of interest to make the process flexible and cumulative.
-Provide the response to the comments made by the professor on your post. Clarify what your point of view is.
– Identifying claims from the sample claim analysis. ”Finally” is used as an Ethical claim. Ethical claims are evaluative.
– Do not plagiarize by buying papers or copying from someone else. You may fall in risk and get terminated.
– Use Bitly to make the link short for sources.
– Work on white paper and find a good scholarly sources.
– Reply to professors comment on your post and reply to other feedback and post so to improve work.
– Lastly, Use rowan Campbell library for your research because they have a large amount of resources which are already paid.
Good stuff, Power.
4/4
10/06
-process is flexible, cumulative, repetitive
-keep dumping in White Paper
-Look @ #8 for more info on short papers
-Focus on going through research/start short papers
-use bit.ly to shorten URLs
-cleans up White Paper
-utilize writing center
-building relationships early pays off in long run
-think about side hypothesis in case original does not work out
Have you challenged yourself to write the shortest possible Notes, Holly?
3/4
HouseKeeping:
CATEGORIZE your posts, Claims, Stone Money, White Paper, Citation, Summaries, Hypothesis
**Late Assistance on the PTSD Claims**
Some claims are invisible or hidden to see
“**finally screened” ,** “**Brannan says”** “**the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system” ,** “**which serves more than 50,000 veterans”**
**The White Paper Task**
**Protocol/Mechanics**
Hodges would appreciate comments feedback and dialogue between the two. Comments online are quicker ways to get to conclusions or answers to questions one might have without waiting for a zoom call.
OK
3/4
Class notes:
-As time goes on everyone’s white paper will continue to grow better and better
-Having our hypothesis assigned early was a way of starting from what you knew and progressing it as time continues to form into a great thesis
-Don’t think that this research paper should be a two day assignment right before it is due. Taking each day and giving a little towards the research paper everyday will not make it stressful and everyday you can think of something new to add or change. Just let it flow, give things a chance and don’t be afraid of it. Don’t get stuck on one part or finding one source you have to give your topic a chance to present itself to you, sometimes it doesn’t click right away.
-When you ask for feedback, be specific on what you want, don’t be afraid to ask and don’t be afraid with your work getting corrected. That’s the purpose of the feedback. If you want feedback be sure to respond to the feedback that you get.
-Be specific don’t hint around the idea, just state the idea no reason to sugar coat it because that is where the readers lose interest
-If you want multiple feedback be sure to use the resources here at Rowan. The writing center is a great place to perfect your paper or anything that has to do with writing
-Use google scholar when looking for sources. The sources are reliable and sometime you won’t find specific things that you want compared to regular google, but you have to find those ways to relate it to what you are stating
These are innovative, Soulpond. I’ve read more than 30 versions of Notes for this meeting, and yours sound fresh.
5/4
Class Notes:
Here are some reminders about writing, the final project, and this class: The hypothesis is merely an idea meant to get us to ponder. It surely will alter. Instead of continuing to concentrate on enhancing the overall organization of our report, we should be concentrating more on our sources right now. It can now begin to assume a significant shape.
You’ll produce a research position paper in which you’ll offer your case and back it up with facts at the end. The thesis of our essay is well-researched.
It’s important to categorize your work under the appropriate label.
Organize a meeting if one hasn’t already been scheduled.
Claims can be overt or hidden, and discovering them occasionally necessitates considerable thought.The brief papers, which will all focus on the same subject as your 3000 word research paper, will contribute.
You may edit these arguments as many times as you like, and they will be regraded to raise your grade.
Avoid tired themes because they come with three significant risks.
Significant danger of plagiarism and failure
Pay attention to your lecturers’ advice to avoid writing about subjects that have already been adequately covered by other students or authors.
Keep in mind to use Bit.ly to shorten URLs so they are considerably more appealing in white paper
Make sure to respond when a professor comments on your posts with insightful criticism.
This will make it possible to start a dialogue and will be really helpful for your task.
10/6
Make sure that you make a claim and say that is complete statement and we know who is saying it
Research Techniques:
When incorporating a URL, use a Url shortener
Good writing is all about having a good idea, that is explained and clarified in the shortest and most understanding way
When doing research use as many sources as possible for evidence
If you are having trouble finding sources, check your methodology, if you are looking for direct claims, this will be
If you find someone who agrees, thats a fail
Talk about your thesis with people you would want to actually use
USE GOOGLE SCHOLAR
USE ROWAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Wikipedia allows for articles on celebrity endorsement