Day 29: Writing a Relevancy Statement

Objectives 
Students will be able to

• asses how Hass' article is specifically relevant to the GRP.
• write a relevancy statement for this source.
• complete the annotated bibliography for Hass' article.

I. Review
A. Form groups and use all resources available to you to give an accurate answer to the question assigned to your group. Make sure you know the answer well because you will talk about it later. (5 min)

Group 1:  What's an annotated bibliography? Provide a definition and list its characteristic parts.
                 (Zigang and Anne)
Group 2:  What's the purpose or purposes of an annotated bibliography?
                 (Sharon and Chuck)
Group 3:  What's an APA citation? Where can a writer find information about the APA Format?
                 (Joanne and Star)
Group 4:  What are the  most important characteristics of an APA citation?
                 (Yifan and Maggie)
Group 5:  What does the term reliable source mean? Explain in detail.
                 (Fuyuan and Jae)
Group 6:  What does the term relevant source mean? Explain in detail.
                 (Yuanyi and Raoyang)
Group 7:   What information is included in the reliability statement?  What is included in the relevancy 
                 statement?
                   (Yuanpeng and Siwei)

B. Form two groups as follows. Explain to your group what do you know about your question.(5 min)

Group A:  Siwei, Raoyang, Jae, Maggie, Star, Chuck, and Anne.

Group B:  Yuanpeng, Yuanyi, Fuyuan, Yifan, Joanne, Sharon, and Zigang


II.  Writing a Relevancy Statement (15 min)
Template

A. What is included in a relevancy statement?

B. Review Cliff Hass' article one more time. As you reread the article think how this article can be relevant to the GRP:

• to provide background information
• to describe the solution (using shielded lights for outdoor lightning)
• to critique the solution 
• to offer improvement to this solution    

C. Open the file you created for the GRP Annotated Bibliography and write a relevancy statement for this source. 

D. Take a look at your document.  What is missing in the annotated bibliography?


III.  Writing a Summary (20 min)
A. What's a summary? When you read a summary what information do you expect to find?

B. Task:  Write a 5-6 sentence summary of the Hass' article. Once you finished, add it to the Annotated Bibliography for this source.

C. Write an annotated bibliography for the second GRP source.

 Homework:
1.  Finish what you couldn't finish today.
The final version of the GRP Annotated Bibliography (two sources) is due Friday, April 5th. Uploaded to Dropbox correctly labeled please.

2.  Start working in your IRP Annotated Bibliography as well. It's due pretty soon as well. 

Tip: Open a folder on Dropbox labeled, IRP Annotated Bibliography.  Here you will open files for each of the sources you have chosen for your IRP.  

Read one article assess its reliability and relevancy.  If it is a reliable relevant source for your IRP, write the APA citation, the relevancy and reliability statments, and the summary. Save it. Do the same for source 2, 3, and so on. When you have read all your articles and written an annotated bibliography for each, put everything together in one document for presentation and grading.