February 2021

Driscoll Blog

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Dana Lynn Driscoll, Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words Driscoll is giving the audience information on how to conduct research for a research paper. She says that the audience needs to find reliable scores in order to get the necessary information that they need for their paper. She gives the audience step by step instructions on how the research should be done and it will go through your research process. Then she gives the proper ethics to follow while writing a research paper later on in her text. She says that the ultimate goal in conducting primary research is to learn something new that can be proved by other people and to help eliminate our own biases. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. Primary research- the process of collecting reliable data in order to conduct research
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 It goes back to when I had to write research papers in school. We had to do research and find the most reliable source available. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Why do we have to primary research in order to write a research paper?

 

essay analysis

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The first essay I analyzed was about this organization called  SPIT. The strong points of this essay were that the writer explained the organization in great detail from how it started to what it is all about. The sources were used correctly and fit the topic of the essay. The usage of the bold headers gave an introduction to what that passage was about. The only weakness I saw was it was very lengthy and the writer could have summarized more. The essay was organized with bold text for the paragraphs and gave a list of the genres of the organization. The sources used were Navigating Genres by Dirk Kerry, a personal interview with Sean Glatch a member of SPIT, Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice by Ann M. Johns and the SPIT Facebook page. The second essay was about the Puerto Rican Student Association. The strong points of this essay were the pictures of the association and the use of sequencers. The writer also used the sources correctly and explained the association in depth. The only weakness I found was some repetition of a phrase used in the interview. The organization of the paragraph used sequencers and the pictures of the association. The sources used were The Concept of Discourse Community by John Swales, The Puerto Rican Student Association constitution, Navigating Genres by Dirk Kerry and Discourse Communities and the Communities of Practice by Ann M Johns.