February 2021

Reading Journal

 

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys … wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/driscoll–introduction-to-primary-research.pdf.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	This article talks about what primary research is and how it is explained in many different aspects. It also talks about how there are many different types of primary research for different fields of work. And how in college we will be focusing on how to collect the certain type of research for our future job. It also gives us examples and a thorough explanation of that example. It includes picture graphs for those who learn and understand things better through a more visual way. The article also explains how to come up with hypotheses and discussion questions. Reading this article was very helpful because I have to write a research speech for one of my online classes so this is perfect and is answering a lot of questions that have come up so far.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	deductive reasoning, where re- searchers start with a hypothesis or general conclusion and then collect specific data to support or refute their hypothesis inductive reasoning, where researchers start with a question and collect information that eventually leads to a conclusion.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	So far this article has related to some of the work that I have been doing in my classes. For one, it has helped me get ideas on how to further my research for my future major projects, and it has also allowed me to come up with more ideas for a research project I am doing in my speech class.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What was one thing you learned while reading the article that will help you further your research for you Major Projects?

 

 

1. 1. I am not a fantastic writer. But I have obviously gotten better over the years. I wished I could say that I like writing. But that is definitely not something I enjoy doing. I wish I could be able to sit down and free write, but when given the opportunity to free write my mind goes blank. And it makes me mad then from there it is a downward spiral.
   2. Junior year of high school I was able  to write twelve poems. There was no strict genre that I needed to stick with. When I was finished I felt so good because I was able to say that after three weeks I was able to present my teacher with 12 poems that I was so proud of.
   3. I would really like to work on getting to the point. Stop using and, so, at the beginning of the sentence. and Maybe even in text citations. I have always struggled with them and when ever I try to look it up for help there are always many different ways to do it.
   4. Getting to the point and making sure there are supporting factors but not a lot of pillow fluff.
   5. I am a hands on learner. Which for writing isn’t very easy to do because there is nothing really hands on about it. I guess printing out articles and hand writing the essays and such is the easiest way to finish things for me.

In the essay written about S.P.I.T. there are many simple mistakes. Like missing capitalization, and to me it is just a bit of a mouth full. This essay from the start is almost boring because of the amount of information it supplies the reader with. But to counter that the information is also useful to the reader to truly understand the point which is trying to be made. The first essay was organized by subtitles that listed what we were about to read. This essay used the two articles that we have read previously in the weeks. In the nest essay as I read the conclusion I was kind of left on a cliffhanger. I would had liked at least another sentence or two. But the paper is organized with some subtitles but also transition sentences. This paper also had picture evidence which allowed us readers to in a way take a break between reading the paragraphs which was nice. This essay used the same two articles plus two more. And pictures, but what was nice was they attached a letter from the writing center showing that he had really tried and spent time on this paper.

Reading Journal

 

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Melzer, Dan. “Melzer-Understanding-Discourse-Communities.pdf – Understanding Discourse Communities Dan Melzer This Essay Is a Chapter in Writing Spaces Readings on: Course Hero.” Melzer-Understanding-Discourse-Communities.pdf – Understanding Discourse Communities Dan Melzer This Essay Is a Chapter in Writing Spaces Readings on | Course Hero, www.coursehero.com/file/65182523/melzer-understanding-discourse-communitiespdf/
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	While reading this article it got me thinking about when I wanted to start a new competition team at my high school. I knew that eventually I would be good at what I was doing but i needed people to come and compete with me. So from there we had to study over 300 plants and tools and a bunch of other technical things for this competition. With that I was able to sit and memorize with a group of people trying to get the same thing done. This article was able to show me that without knowing it I just made myself apart of a discourse community but I was also the one to create it in a way.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Discourse Community:  A broadly agreed upon set of common public goals 2. Mechanisms of intercommunication among members 3. Use of these communication mechanisms to provide information and feedback 4. One or more genres that help further the goals of the discourse community 5. A specific lexis (specialized language) 6. A threshold level of expert members
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It connected to the reading we did from Johns about the discourse communities. I have been able to really understand more about them and where I can be placed while breaking them down into finer more specific groups.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What is a new thing you learned about discourse communities and where you may be placed?