Today’s Plan:
- Posting Annotations to the Blogger Site
- Booth Research Question Activity
- Homework: Research Synthesis
Posting Annotations to the Blogger Site
We started working in this blog last week.
If you were not here, you will need a gmail address (I’m pretty certain it will be private). Once we get started I can email you an invite to contribute to the blog.
I will give you 15 minutes to copy/paste and format your 4 posts to the blog.
Instructions for Posting
I imagine most of you will be copying and pasting from Google Docs into Blogger. Because of how Blogger mucks up its html, I want you to try and clean up your code as much as you can. So, when you copy and paste your annotation into Blogger, the first thing you should do is to select all your text (CTRL + A) and hit the plain text button. Then, reformat single spaces between paragraphs.
The most important element of this project concerns applying labels to an annotation before you publish. These labels (like hashtags) will make this usable and searchable. I plan on growing this site every time I teach 225, so we are laying the groundwork for a sustainable project.
So, what to do:
- Entry title is: Author’s Name. Date. Title with Capitals [Santos. 2007. Saving Ourselves: Psychoanalysis and Silent Hill]
- Open the post with the author(s)’s name(s) and turn them into a link (select the text and hit the link button, copy/paste the URL from the browser bar)
- Apply Labels (left side of screen, scan existing, separate by commas),/li>
Booth Research Question Activity
This is a timed activity–I’ve got a quiz up in Canvas.
Homework: Research Synthesis
Between now and Monday, March 23rd, you have to do two things. One is easy, the other is hard.
- Easy: A 5th research annotation
- Hard: A research synthesis
The research synthesis should be about 300-400 words. What makes it hard is that there is no magic formula to write one of these. This is where a spark of thought ignites, and you are able to figure out how to map the five sources you have read into one conversation.
One *initial* strategy here might be compare and contrast. Pick the two sources that have the most in common. Articulate what they share. Now articulate how they differ. Does a third source align more with one of these differences?
Another strategy might be to highlight two sources that share a similar methodology but draw different conclusions.
Regardless of how you start–this research synthesis should have topic sentences that are driven by ideas, not sources. So far you have been writing about research articles atomistically, now you need to bring them together. So you want topic sentences that are idea driven:
- Researchers have identified three central methods for promoting pro-social behavior online (Smith 2017, Smart 2018, Carson 2019). Smith advocates requiring players use unique gamer tags in social spaces, thus making it easier for moderators to monitor and regulate online behavior (Smith pp. 56-57). Smart and Carson advocate for …
- A number of studies suggest a strong link between violent videogames and increased aggression (Strunk 2011, White 2013, Betts 2015)
Sicart Essay Revision
Sometime in the next few days, you can expect to get your Sicart essay back. You will have until April 10th to revise and resubmit the essay. IF you want to revise and resubmit, then I will ask you to come to office hours so that we can discuss the paper. These meetings should last between 10 and 15 minutes.
