Research Abstract

English 102-JC
Borger, Spring-2020-Covid-Chaos

To earn college credit for this course, you need to submit a final draft of your annotated bibliography, the research abstract / proposal (described below), and a final version of your meta-reflective journals. All students will earn their high school credit for this course. College credit is contingent on the submission of these three final assignments.

Here’s a video explaining what you have to do to earn college credit for this course.

Prompt: Write an abstract/proposal for the research paper you would have written over the articles / annotated bib for Unit 3.

Discussion of the prompt: Abstracts are condensed versions of longer pieces of writing. They are thorough, concise summaries that let readers know whether to continue reading the longer document. In this case, you are imagining/abstracting/proposing the paper you would have written vs. writing the actual paper.

Your abstract should be between 250-300 words-long (most abstracts are shorter, but I want to give you some room to breathe here).

Rather than go through article by article, focus on the key components from a few key articles that would be the thesis of your paper / presentation. I had you read 5-6 articles. You don’t have to mention every single article, but try to focus on the 3-4 main ideas you saw repeated across articles.

Include 3 quotes from different sources (use in-text citations with author’s last name and page number in parenthesis after).

THIS IS NOT A FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY! Some of you will have 1 paragraph, some will have 2-3.

Include a works cited at the end of your abstract / proposal (doesn’t have to be a separate page – just listed at the end). Will likely not include all of the sources from your annotated bib.

Consider the following to frame your ideas:

• Focus on conclusions of different articles.
• What are 2-3 main problems mentioned and what solutions are offered?
• What were common themes / ideas across different sources?
• What were areas of disagreement across different sources?

This is a synthesis of ideas from different sources – no opinion in a proposal / abstract. This is not a “reader response / tell me what you thought” piece of writing. This is you demonstrating your understanding of a topic before moving to the next step.

These can be uploaded to D2L, emailed to me, or hard copies can be submitted to JCHS.

 

 

April 8th Homework

Howdy Folks:

Some people have been turning in metareflection drafts already.

If you’re not down with the annotated bib or aren’t feeling it yet, you can email me EITHER your reflections OR your annotated bib by April 8th. You can upload them in D2L too – as docs or PDF’s – TOTALLY do whatever’s easiest for you .

Partial Annotated Bibs are good too if you don’t have them all done.

Here are the most recent rules regarding Dual-Credit courses in the midst of Corona-Virus-Chaos. Seems if you don’t complete requisite work, you can take an incomplete and finish later, either with me or with instructors at JALC. I’m still trying to get info on this. So, just keep swimming…just keep reading…just keep writing.

I like you.

 

Addendum, 04/07/2020 (when folks are starting to ask questions about homework due tomorrow!) 🙂  

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TURN ARTICLES BACK IN! That’s what your annotated bib is for. 

Folks are asking about creating works cited pages for annotated bibs since they aren’t hyperlinks.

Fun Fact: in college, you’ll have to make your own works cited page from the ground up!

All articles have the basic info on them for you to build your citations: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Article Title.” _Publication Title_ (underlined or in italics), Publication Date.

“Cell Phones” is a chapter in a book she wrote and that info is in the intro to that article.

Tim Stobierski’s “The Paradox” is a chapter in a book called _The Essay Connection_, edited by Lynn Z. Bloom, published in 2013.

The Purdue OWL page has formatting basics for Works Cited Pages.

Use this sample page and your own resources to do the best you can with it. If you make mistakes, they will be stretch mistakes from working outside your comfort zone.