This is our second of four weeks of completing notecards and sources. Remember we are working towards a goal of 12 academic sources and 30 notecards (100 words each).
Week 13 is due on January 2, 2012 - however, since teachers are not working over break, you should have your form signed and completed by Friday, December 16th.
3 academic sources, approved by advisor
8 notecards (100 words each), approved by advisor, grouped by subjects
Advisors must sign indicating the number of notecards and sources they have seen for the week
This is week one of four weeks of notecards and sources. Your notecards will be essential in writing your final Capstone paper. You need to find 3 academic sources that must be approved by your advisor. You must also have 5 notecards that summarize information found in your sources. One notecard is equal to approximately half of a page of hand-written material. Your advisor should indicate on your rubric the number of good academic sources and notecards that they have seen. This is due on Monday, December 12, 2011.
We will continue to find academic sources and write more notecards for the next four weeks. Remember your final paper must have a minimum of twelve academic sources.
Also be sure to create a "Capstone-Final" project in Noodle Tools which you should share with Ms. Bergstrom and your advisor.
This week you are to create a style guide for the citation that you and your advisor have agreed that you will use for all the work related to your paper. You should have two copies of this style guide made, one for your advisor and one for you. You will turn the one for you in to me next Monday with your rubric for me to grade.
Along with your style guide you should also complete an intext sampler. This is to show me your comprehension of your citation style. Your intext sampler should include samples of 7 different sources as well as a summary of what a bibliography page looks like.
Your advisor should sign that they agree with your chosen style and go over your intext sampler with you. You will turn in, on Monday, your style guide, the intext sampler and your rubric.
Remember that Perdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) is a great resource. They have style guides for all three citation styles; they are long, and there are shorter ones out there, but this may be a good place for you to start. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/
Please, oh please, remember that site is a website and cite is the verb of citation.
This is your Week 10 Assignment, or as I like to think of it as you Week 1 of REAL Capstone! A big part of this assignment is having your first interaction with your advisors. Here you can find a link to the advisor rubric sheet that goes with all your assignments (there are two on one page). http://www.scribd.com/doc/72577880/Capstone-Rubric-Sheet-With-Advisor Remember that you both (your advisor and you) have parts to fill out on your rubric sheet.
You have two weeks to complete this assignment because of our numerous holidays. Your Week 10 Assignment is due on Monday, November 28th. This assignment will include several things:
Your Statement of Purpose
Your Thesis Question
Your Thesis Statement
Why your Thesis is a good thesis statement and how it passes the "test" (see the sheet I gave you)
Should be a minimum of 2 pages, include citations from your chosen style (APA, MLA or Chicago)
2 sources minimum
*Reminder that all sources related to your topic must be academic sources!
For the Week 9 Assignment you just need to tell me you thesis question and your advisor. You should have taken care of this by Friday, November 4, before we left for break.
Using Chicago Turbian Style you are to write a 2 page paper refining your topic. You can take what you started with in Week 5's assignment and expand upon those ideas. You need at least 3 sources, one of which must be an academic source, to support your ideas. Things to keep in mind for this assignment is why is your topic important, why should your audience care? We need to be getting closer to identifying our actual thesis topics. Some of you are already there, the rest of the class needs to catch up. :)
Remember with Chicago Turbian Style that you have intext citations in the form of footnotes, but you will also have a Bibliography at the end of you document. I would also like you to e-mail this assignment to me so I check your formatting. All assignments must be emailed to cdelong@gwa.ac.ma and safeHS@gwa.ac.ma by the beginning of your class on October 31st.
When you finish the game email me 5 things that you learned about plagiarism today. cdelong@gwa.ac.ma
I am going to give you a grade for this.
You may then work on one of the following things, your economics work or start on your Week 7 Assignment. Your Week 7 Assignment Topic is "Choosing an Advisor." In at least 2 pages you are to discuss the qualities of a good advisor as well as the purpose of an advisor for our class, in other words, what is their job. You should include at least two sources and you can choose either MLA or APA. Remember that everything from this point on has to include intext citations.
Tomorrow you will work on brainstorming qualities of good advisors, and I will talk more about this when I come back on Wednesday.
Remember that this week's assignment has to be emailed to me by Monday, October 10th by the beginning of your class, Morocco time. cdelong@gwa.ac.ma & safeHS@gwa.ac.ma
Picking a Thesis Topic
Follow all Capstone rules for formatting
2 1/2 pages using APA format with intext citations
At least 2 academic sources included in your paper
Explain the difference between a research and thesis paper
How you are choosing your thesis topic, why, and how you can narrow your choice
No first person in your paper
I would suggest doing 1/3 of your assignment on the difference between a thesis and research paper, 1/3 on what topic you are interested in, and the last 1/3 on how you narrowed your topic and this would be the part where you put in the 2 academic sources on your topic (journal articles from JSTOR would be good).
Your assignment is to locate websites or sources that cover choosing the right university or college. You must have at least one site that deal with helping students to pick a university in Europe, and one site that deals specifically with the United State, and another that focuses on Canada. You may evaluate a college that you plan to attend, but this can not be on of the 6 you are assigned.
You must annotate 6 websites, but no more than 8. You may work in pairs, even turn in one final assignment together, but you must each complete a rubric.
You will need to evaluate the sites based on what material is covered, how it is presented (use of graphics, ease of navigation, overall appearance), and what additional information (if any) you think the sites should have included but did not. Write a brief paper explaining what is covered in these websites, including a list of the websites by title with complete, accurate URLs. Include your names, the assignment title, course and date, as with all assignment submissions.
*Remember this should be in MLA format, and follow all the formatting rules for our class.
We will be quizzed on this information on Wednesday, but this is a summary of what Ms. Bergstrom talked about in class all week.
We went over Noodle Tools, and why it is useful. Remember that through Noodle Tools you can do your citations, it helps you check for errors, shows you how to do intext citation, and you can even do annotations with Noodle Tools bibliography.
From Moodle you can find links to JSTOR and EBSCO. If you use EBSCO at home, you will need a login and password, you can pick those up in the library if you didn't get a bookmark from Ms. Bergstrom.
We spent a lot of the week discussing the differences between academic and non-academic sources. If a source is peer-reviewed, that is one of the key ways to identify that the source is academic.
When we evaluate sources the four things to look at are:
For your week 2 assignment, you need to write at least 2 pages about the person who has been the most influential on your life. It can be a person living or dead; describe how they have shaped or impacted your life. This is due on Monday, September 19th.
This week we are focusing on MLA Style. The Modern Language Association is the most commonly used style for research papers. This is the link to what we went over in class today. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Write 2 - 3 pages telling me all about you. Include information about your family, languages you speak at home, if you have lived anywhere outside of Morocco, how long you have been at GWA, or any interests/hobbies you have.
