Week 4 MUSE (9/20/05 & 9/22)
9/23 update
- Tu (9/20) = MUSE Workshop What is Plagiarism on
9/20/05, Pacific Room in the Union, noon - 1
- Th
- Discuss Tuesday's workshop
- Generating and developing research ideas (the quest continues)
- Reading is key to developing good topic. -- Reading is a
habit. Reading requires patience.We are reading the text at the rate of 20 pp. per day. I wrote up a schedule for my reading.
We should be finishing Chapter VI.
this Saturday! The key is to do a little each day.
Fitting reading into your schedule can be a challenge. Consider a
routine place and time for reading (e.g., before bed, on the bus).
Make reading a habit. Read a page here and there. (Yes, it's OK to
take the book to the bath room.) Slow and steady wins the
[scholarly] race.
- Note taking, for me, is essential. Without note taking, it
is just "in one eye, and out the other." (What use is
that?) Notes do not have to be detailed -- "show and
tell" margins in the book.
- Follow-up ideas with research. When you notice a theme (thesis) that catches your fancy,
follow-up will be necessary. Here are some notes on sources you may
use for follow-up.
- Internet -- anyone can put anything on the
internet, so you will have to do a good job assessing the credibility
of everything you see on the web
- In general, .gov and .edu sites will be
best [ .com sites may have alternative motives]
- Look for citations and
referencing. Scholarly references site sources.
- Other hints on how to judge the credibility of information on
the web can be found in an article by Harris
(1997).
- Books and [peer reviewed] journal articles tend
to be better in quality than the net. Do we need a session on
library use?
- Quick walking tour of library -- bottom floor to view
what a journal looks like; top floor to see what the stacks and
SJ looks like. ;-)
- Test prep (exam on 10/6)
- Topics
- Citing and referencing sources
- Intro to pathology
- Selected items fro your readings
- Review sheet will be provided next week and will be
discussed at the study session
- There will be a study session on 10/1 from 10:30 to 1:30 --
tentative location is the Peer Mentor Center.
- HW - Keep reading as planned (20 pages per day) until you get to
p. 269