Journal 7

Today in class we talked about the Field Work Group Project. My group decided to observe people on the shuttle bus. We each have to write a one page reflective essay. Once we observe people on the shuttle bus we have to interview someone on the bus or someone that rides the bus and write another one page reflective essay.

For my annotated bibliography I have seven sources so far. I'm finding it easy to get information on my topic. However, it's hard to find articles that pertain to autism in school children.

Journal 6

Today in class we did finding and evaluating information on the World Wide Web. As a class we were given the topic of if man really walked on the moon in the 1960's. I analyzed www.apfn.org, this website was saying that the Apollo moon landing was a fake. The purpose of the website was to inform people. The website is written by several individuals, some of the things on the website and 'factual" and others are people's opinions. There are sources cited but some of them are no longer available. The website was last revised on January 25, 2010. After reading this site, I still believe that man did land on the moon in the Apollo mission.

Journal 5

Today in class we turned in our final draft of our topic proposal. I'm not sure how I did on this paper, because I wasn't sure what else to add to make it four pages. In class we also worked in our groups to make web bibliographies. We had nine different sources that we had to figure out how to correctly source. We did this activity to help prepare us for our annotated bibliographies. Our first rough draft for the annotated bibliography is next Thursday. As a class we are going to the library this Thursday to get more information on researching and how to use difference resources.

Journal 4

Last week we didn't meet for class, we had conferences instead. My conference with Professor Evans was Monday at 1:00 p.m. In my conference we discussed what I needed to changed in my bibliography. Also, my paper was lacking in the length requirement so she helped me come up with other ideas that would be good to add. I think that the conference helped me get a better understanding of what was expected for the final draft of the topic proposal.