week 8 journal entry

Hello everyone,

Well this week I started off by doing the discussion topic: freedom to read, in this assignment I wrote about censorship and means and method, this assignment was not hard to do because all we really had to do was write about how we feel about the subject. After that I moved on to do the alternative sources assignment which was not that hard but kind of time consuming, in this assignment we were suppose to find two alternate sources to use in our pathfinders, such as a video clip or a government run web site, in this assignment I chose to use a video clip I saw on Youtube about global warming, and I used a article written by the British governments top scientist. We were also suppose to write citations and annotations for both sources. After doing that assignment I moved on to do, the source selection draft assignment, in this assignment I used Britannica online, Proquest, Youtube and my own college library to pick out two books, three articles, two reference articles, two internet sites and one non-print issue. After that assignment I moved on to the do the last assignment of the week and that was the research plan draft, in this assignment we were suppose to use our research plans from week 4 and update them and revise them to reflect the new information we have learned the last weeks, we were suppose to update the classification numbers that we used the key terms we used and some other things, then after that we were suppose to write an essay type thing to finish off the research plan in this essay I talked about the process i used to find my information I then talked about the nature of my topic, then I finished by talking about how the internet was helpful to me. Oh yeah the last assignment was to comment on a classmates source selection and research plan.


Well this week was by far the hardest and most time consuming especially for me since I had none of the previous weeks work and had to redo some of it for I can finish off this week. But I did learn some things about classification numbers and what types of alternate sources we can use in a research assignment.


Well im out of here I will talk to you all next time,
Joe