senior seminar winter 2009 isp 4860 section 002 (bowen) class 4, february 4 course web site:

2/4/09 ISP 4860 Winter 2009 Class 4

Senior Seminar Winter 2009ISP 4860

Section 002 (Bowen)

Class 4, February 4Course web site: www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/SenSemW09

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Agenda

• Tonight in 012 Manogian Rest of semester, too

• Pictures• Late / returned / future assignments• Research

Searching WSU research databases Review, search terms Research portfolio Citing web pages and websites

• Content: development and consumption• Writing: organization

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Late Assignments

• Your paper subtopic is due today via Moodle, many have not come in. Not a good start. See/call/email/IM me for help getting started I have started a discussion topic on Moodle

about this, if anyone wants online help (or wants to complain).

• Reminder – a component of the course grade comes for getting assignments done on time


Returned Assignments

• “Is it a happy new year?” Why did I do this?

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Making Up Work

• Makeup Work page on course website

• Cannot get back credit for being on time

• Change in making up in-class work: Much in-class work involves group discussion To make this up, get a group of students

together to do the discussion Group discussion counts one letter grade for

these assignments

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Assignments Coming Up

• Today – bring Research Portfolio (notebook)

• February 11: Chapter Planner for Chapter 1

• February 18 – list of references via Moodle Suggestion – do some each week

• February 25 – draft of Chapter 1 (overview)


Topic, Subtopic, etc.

• The Topic of the course (“main topic”) is The Human Footprint

• You will choose a subtopic to focus your paper on. You might choose, for example, Food. If you narrow Food to Grains (a type of food)

then “Grains” becomes your subtopic. That is, there are no sub-subtopics

• If you narrowed two levels (e.g. to specific country), I need a fuller description of intent


Research - Databases

• Highly-recommended databases on purple handout ABI/INFORM Global Online Communication and Mass Media Complete Ebrary (eBooks) Expanded Academic ASAP FirstSearch GaneNet LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

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Databases

• Highly-recommended databases on purple handout Library Press Display Netlibrary (eBooks)’ Opposing Viewpoint Center SIRS Researcher on the Web (starter only)

• Textbooks are also research sources, and list other references as well

• Websites of scholarly organizations www.aaas.org, www.sciencemag.org

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Google Scholar

• Free or not? References free on public Interent Some full-text as well Much restricted to paying customers, so

doesn’t cost you to use full Google Scholar through WSU

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Research - Searching

• Case-insensitive• Yellow handout• Boolean words: and, or, not

world and hunger: articles MUST have both words in it (not necessarily together or in that order)

world hunger: same as or – can have first only, second only, or both. Not necessarily in that order

“world hunger”: treated like one word11


Searching

• Boolean words: or is done before and

• water or drought and world means water and world, or drought and water

• Not mentioned but on handout: * (wildcard) fish* would get fish, fishing, fisherman, fishery,

etc.

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Searching - keywords• For many of the topics here, adding

“world” helps world and food is more specific that food by

itself, which would include recipes, for example

Would miss specific areas, but you can add these – world or africa and food

• Try the opposite (antonym) world and drought has more articles than

world and water Also try world and “water shortage” Or world and water or drought

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Keywords

• Thesaurus lists synonyms and antonyms http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/ (Roget’s is

the standard thesaurus)

• Suggestions for search terms

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Research - Portfolio

• Three-ring binder• Dividers to separate sections – example sections

Syllabus Study Tools: dates, names, definitions, etc. Word hoard: Definitions of new words you learn. Weekly Meetings: notes, handouts Scrapbook: materials related to course including newspaper

clips, media comments, INTERNET downloads, ads, cartoons, summaries of conversations, documents, essays, etc.

Final Research Paper: all materials related to papers such as drafts, database sheets and bibliography, notes, photocopies of readings, and all drafts.

Pouch for tools such as pens, markers, 3-hole punch, stapler, etc.

Place for 3½-inch floppy diskette labeled with your name, or a USB flash drive, any capacity


Research portfolio

• Comparison and discussion in groups

• Complete and turn in Portfolio self-assessment

• Will be repeated two more times during semester March 4 (self-assessment) April 8 (self-assessment and Instructor

assessment)

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Research – Citing the Web

• MLA standard – Everyday Writer Pp 383 Author (if listed) Title / subtitle of page Print publication information

• Any given information about print publication

Electronic publication information (. after each)• Title of website, underlined, major words capitalized• Version number• Month and year

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Research – Citing the Web

• MLA standard – Pp 383 Access information

• Most recent date viewed• URL in < >, for homepage if more than one line,

plus Path (list of links with >)

• Practice – group exercise using handout

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Content – Consumption & Waste

• David’s dollar-bill economy Spin the wheel faster & we all get richer If everybody plays, wheel is bigger

• Cash – slow• Bank accounts – faster• Credit – fastest, more of it, too

• US & rich world, we do this very well Get what you want (will pay for) – better hope

it’s good for you! Shopping as entertainment

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Panic Time

• “Wall Street bailout” These firms give us the credit and move the

money If credit part of wheel stops:

• Wheel really slows down• Eventually drags accounts down, too• Money wheel eventually stops, almost

Saw this happening last week Not “too big to fail” but “to important to fail”

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Consumption and Waste

• ROW (Rest Of World) wants this Weak national economies, must export to rich

world - globalization Doing “our” jobs – OK if it is not too much Enlarge the circle – we send them money How do we get the money back to spend

again?• They invest it in us – T-bills (debt of US gov’t)• Trade deficit – about $60B per month

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• Last week, ROW slow to reinvest• Most economists feel this is unsustainable

We have to produce a larger fraction of what we consume

US a $15T annual economy• Trade deficit $700B = $0.7T

Federal debt (total money government owes) = $10.6T $11.3T with “bailout”

• Federal deficit is what we add to debt each year, now about $407B = 0.4T

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US Economy ↓

• At least is not growing as fast (what is a depression?)

• Structural imbalance one reason• Gas prices another

Indirect effects on many other goods and services

• Housing crisis – people used to spending the value of their houses

• International effects worse

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Trade Barriers

• All countries put up trade barriers in certain areas US claims it is for free trade but subsidizes

agriculture• Food aid generous, but

o Much must be spent on food from USo We subsidize exports of food

• Result: farmers in poor countries cannot compete with low (subsidized) food from US

• Collapse last year of “Doha round” of trade talks to reduce barriers

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• Money wheel spins one way• “Stuff” spins the other way

Packaging becomes waste immediately Some stuff is not used, becomes waste quickly

(food) Everything that was in the package also

becomes waste – just more slowly

• Running out of places to put the garbage• Can we find another way to spin the wheel?

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Does Stuff Make Us Happier?• Up to a point,

more stuff makes us happier

• But levels off• So is there a

better way?• Virtue of

individuals not enough



• Do we care about ROW? Yes – foreign aid (but smaller than most in US

think) One reason for wanting to help poor nations

develop is their health Poverty poor health (often) Hunger makes it worse Leads to high population growth, eventually

endangers us, too

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Sovereign Wealth Funds

• Another effect of US economic unbalance• Sovereign Wealth Funds – the accounts

built up by our international creditors who are not market-based China Saudi Arabia Russia

• Will they use that wealth against us? Probably more subtle effects


Writing: OrganizationChapter Level

• Title: Chapter number (1, 2, 3, etc) and descriptive title (describes content of this Chapter)

• Introduction (roadmap)

• Body

• Conclusion (review, conclude or wrap up, so what?)

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Organization: Within Body

• Organization: Treat topics one by one in some order – have a

plan, don’t just hop around Examples of orders that work:

a. Start with a specific example or story, then go to what that is an example of (generalize)

b. General to specificc. Historical order, order of developmentd. Logical order – what does the reader need to know first?e. Combinations – a then b, for example

A new topic requires a new paragraph. Smooth transitions to prepare the reader and show

that your thinking is under control, not just random.

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Outlining

• An outline can be a quick way to organize your topic. Not required except for Chapter 1 I used to outline, but with word processors I

just shuffle stuff around

• Organization in-class assignment (groups) Get card pack Groups can go somewhere else – 30 minutes Turn in report on next slide

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Writing: Organization

• Chapter Planner on course website has helped some

• Required for Chapter 1 of your Paper next week As of last week, you had all of the information

you need to write Chapter 1• OK if you want to add references, later

Turn in via Moodle

• After this, optional

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Group Reports - Organization

• Each group should turn in a report with the following information (by number)1. List the group members (first and last names)2. Take the cards out of the envelope and put them in

the best order. What is the best order of the cards (by number)?

3. Of the styles of organization listed in class (or including others that you may be aware of, what organization scheme did you used in 2, and why?

4. Pick one other style of organization and describe how you might reorganize the material on the cards to make that other style work.

• You can leave once you turn in this report

senior seminar winter 2009 isp 4860 section 002 (bowen) class 4, february 4 course web site:

Documents

class work

bowen class

time slide

organization slide

overview slide

research databases

future assignments research

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