Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Day 16: Pre-researching the GRP topic

Objectives
Students will be able to
learn more about the chosen topic for the Guided Research Paper.
write a tentative outline for GRP.

I. Review:  What have we done? Where are we?

Module 2:

* Experience the different steps in the writing process of an analytical research paper (planning, reserach, prewriting, writing, and revision).

We'll do this by writing two papers at the same time;

A.The Guided Research Paper (GRP) (together, in class)
B. The Individual Research Paper (IRP)  (individual work at home)

Already we have:

* read and understood the assignment prompt.

* proposed topics for the GRP

* assessed proposed topics

* chosen a topic for the GRP and IRP

* pre-research the topic for the GRP in non-academic sources to get a general idea of what it is about and how we can direct our more formal research. These are some of the ideas you proposed last class.

II.  More research => tentative outline

Sources reviewed:

Source 1:  National Geographic Magazine article

Source 2:  PowerPoint Presentations 

Source 3: Skim this  Article:  Reducing the ecological consequences of night-time light pollution

III. Writing a tentative Outline                                    Groups:  Write an outline that examines three solutions to the problem.



Homework
1. Read article
2. IRP topic and justification
3. Pre-research for IRP topic

IV.  What's coming?
1. Grading of assignment 2
2. My leave of absence
3. Evaluation


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