Wednesday, October 17th (.246)

Today we are going to have a little chat regarding your HIST 1301 focus for FYS. We will also spend a bit of time discussing the differences between credible and scholarly sources, along with the best ways to find them. We will wrap things up with a bit of a chronology review...or should I say...you will be making the chronology review. Yeah, that seems more accurate.

For additional TJ hilarity (?)...

Reminders

• Registration 101: You should be meeting with your advisors, clearing holds, and planning tentative schedules.

• The schedule is live on SAIL.

• Use Degree Planner to help fill out this tentative schedule that your advisor can look over.

• This link can help you decide what Learning Community you wish to be a part of next semester.

• Your next reading quiz is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 24th and will cover reading 3.10 in Annual Editions "Mexico's Irish Army"

• For this quiz, you are allowed to bring one 3X5 notecard with writing on one side only.

• Don't forget to update ALL portions of this file no later than Friday at midnight.

• If you notice, I am trying to leave comments/hints in the right-hand column. Use these to help guide your research.

• If they don't make sense, come see me during office hours. I am holding a special IA #2 office hour on Friday from 12:00-1:00!

• I will be spending the weekend creating groups based on this file, so all information should be at its most current.

• Professor Walker's Discovery Log #8 is due on Sunday.

• This is directly linked to the work you are doing on IA #2. Make sure to complete it to the best of your ability. Again, the focus here should be on credible and/or scholarly sources.

• Exam 2 Countdown!

• The review has been distributed. As of today, you can officially answer three of the four essay questions!

• When is that exam happening??

Today

• Sharing is Caring (IA #2)

• Who is still in crisis regarding your HIST 1301 focus for IA #2?

• Don't be shy...we can help!

• HIST 1301 Themes

• The overarching themes under which you will all be grouped are as follows: citizenship, war, power and oppression, resistance and revolt, equality, liberty, order, the power of writing.

• They come directly from Dr. Wooster's syllabus

• You will find out who your group members are on Monday. Be prepared to chat during class and arrange for your first meeting time outside of class.

• APA Research (IA 2 and Intersections Project)

• While conducting general research, consumer sites are acceptable, but as you move forward with your researching and writing processes, you should shift your focus towards using scholarly and credible sources.

• Evaluating Sources

• Bell Library

• ​This link takes you to one of the parts of our Research Guide. This portion talks about evaluative sources.

• Credible vs. Scholarly

• Credible implies that the article is well researched and relatively unbiased.

• You can help determine the credibility of a source by using the The CRAAP Test.

• You can find many different types of credible sources online, but it is important to review them to make sure you are getting legitimate information.

• Scholarly implies that the article is for use within an academic field and has been peer-reviewed by other scholars with expertise on the subject.

• When Dr. Wooster publishes a scholarly article in an academic journal, it is peer-reviewed by other Historians.

• One way of limiting your online search to scholarly sources only, is to select the "peer-reviewed" limiter on your document search in the library databased.

• Why should you care?

• Research and knowledge has value...you have done some reading about that, yeah?

• Proof of labor. The quality of your sources can literally SHOW your audience the amount of work you put into a project.

• Huh, audience, also a kind of important concept.

• Chronologies (HIST 1301)

• Go ahead and break into groups of three-four and get out your lecture notes.

• Each group will receive a random subheading from the Exam Review.

• Your responsibility is to create the long-form (more than three events/people/places) chronology and post it on the Google .doc.

• Remember how things appeared on the last exam. All chronologies are directly from your lecture notes.

• Also, remember there are often cause-effect connections between the listed items.

Homework

• Use the homework activity that you completed for today, and produce a detailed outline for Essay Question 2.

• ​All the information on that worksheet is relevant to the second question. In addition, review your notes and the connected readings.

• Remember the things that you did well on for the first exam...do those things!

• Remember the things that you had trouble with...fix those things!

• Submit your outline to BB in the appropriate Daily Work space.

• If you have not submitted your entry to the FYS Spreadsheet, you must do so no later than Friday at midnight! This is urgent.