Week 2 Overview ---The Class pace picks up substantially!!

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Welcome to Week Two! This week, the pace of the class picks up substantially. You will be writing five (5) blog posts, each of which will require some reading and/or online research first. You will also be giving feedback on the blogs of your classmates. This will require you to develop a rhythm that we will follow throughout the course: research, write, peer review, revise, reflect. 

The goal of this week's readings and activity is to decide upon a controversy in your field of study and begin to find sources for your Controversy Analysis (Project one). By the end of the week, you should have the draft of an annotated bibliography with at least six sources. 

Week’s reading from textbooks:

1. Read Student’s Guide Section 5.1 “Working with Sources: An Overview” (pages 79-80) & Section 5.2 “Summary: Main Ideas” (pages 81-2) and Rules for Writers Chapter 55 (pages 448-56)
2. Read Student’s Guide Section 6.4 “Evaluating Sources” (pages 100-5) & Section 6.5 “Engaging with and Keeping Track of Your Sources” (pages 105-110).
3. Read Student’s Guide Section 6.6 “The Annotated Bibliography” (pages 111-3).

Week’s reading/learning online:

1. Peruse Google search guides  Closely skim the following three websites about using Google (you can probably find videos to demonstrate any of the particular strategies they suggest):
1. How to Search Google
2. 20 Tips to Use Google Search Efficiently
3. 13 Google Search Tricks to Make Life a Whole Lot Easier

2. Complete at least TWO of the following Academic Database Tutorials
1. Searching Academic Search Complete
2. Searching news content in LexisNexis
3. Searching JSTOR
4. Searching Web of Science

3. Watch the Storify video tutorial and create a sample “story” about your controversy

Week's blog posts (to be described in more detail in subsequent posts):

1. BLOG #5: “My Field of Study”
2. BLOG #6: “Evaluation of General Sources”
3. BLOG #7: “Evaluation of Scholarly Sources”
4. BLOG #8: “Evaluation of social media sources"
5. BLOG #9: "Draft Annotated Bibliography"