Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote Peers’ Posts

Summary
This is a summary of Alex’s blog post titled Comment-Seeking Post (Drama). To access the full post, click here Drama.
At first I thought that this place was going to be awesome, when I came on my tour, but now I think it’s a drama filled place. So I decided that I am going to stay in my house and avoid everything and anything. I also decided to hang out with only certain people that I can trust, I knew that this place was to good to be true.

Paraphrase
This is a paraphrase of a section of Alex’s blog post titled Comment-Seeking Post (Drama). To access the full post, click here Drama.
My tour guide blindsided me I thought that this place was going to be awesome but my tour guide had me fooled.

Quote
This is a quote of a section Alex’s blog post titled Comment-Seeking Post (Drama). To access the full post, click here Drama
“I think I redeemed myself by staying home and avoiding everything and anything that could possibly involve drama.”

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Quote, Summary, or Paraphrase Paragraph



Welcome my wonderful students! Today I am going to teach you all about the meaning or evidence, what is summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing. Evidence is a text that you found in a reliable source that will help you with your focus question. You summarize evidence when it is a long selection of text such as multiple sentences or an entire paragraph. To summarize you retell the ideas of the text using in fewer words. You quote evidence when it is a short and very specific section of text that you need to copy exactly to keep its meaning. To use quote you copy the text exactly how it is appears and put quotation marks around it. Your paraphrase evidence when it is a short and simple section of text that you can easily put into your own words. To paraphrase you retell the ideas and put them in you own words. To help you remember this, you should practice this in all that you do especially in all of the assignment that I will be shortly giving all of you.

Monday, April 11, 2011

UnGoogleable Research Paper Website Selection Reflection

Today in class I went on the internet looking for good websites to use my research paper. To search for websites on google.com, I really didn’t have to much luck my topic, is so hard to look up. When I found a website related to my website question, I was happy because I started to think that I was going to have to change my question. I knew some of the websites I found were unacceptable because the websites had a lot of Ads, and I couldn’t find and proof of the author. I know the websites I collected were good because I made sure it said .gov, or .org, and they looked educational and they had an author, and they were an authoritative source. Tomorrow, I expect that Ms. Priester will tell me to start getting facts from these websites and start my paper.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

UnGoogleable Research – What I Already Know

My focus question is “How is giving natural birth better then using an epidural?” I already know that women were meant to give natural birth, so there is no doubt in my mind that a woman’s body would heal faster. I also know that an epidural is a man made drug used to numb the body by injecting it into the spine. Additionally I know that having an epidural seems to relax the lower half, and it can have bad spinal affects later on in life. By doing research, I hope to learn more about the good and bad affects of both and I hope that I can take this into my occupation later on in life.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

UnGoogleable Research Paper – Website Evaluation Tips

I asked people question to help me learn about good resources. I interviewed Ms. Davis and she said that if the website is a .gov or an .edu that it is a good website and educational. I interviewed Bob W and he said that if someone researches something in a search engine then the first thing that pops up is the one that is most recently used. I asked Jabriel and he said that if it has an author, someone who can back up the facts, also if it is an .edu, or a .gov. The advice that I got from these people will help me because I know that if something is an .edu, or a .gov that it is a good website also try to find a name or something that shows proof that it is a reliable source preferably first, or second person.