English Composition III

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English Composition III

• Research Proposal Oral Report
• Source Evaluation
• Dr. Yu-Feng Diana Yang
• 10/11/2006

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Agenda

• Research Proposal Report Oral Report and Peer
  Evaluation
• Making Progress Revising/Deciding Your Research
  Proposal
• Evaluating Sources
• Next Week

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Research Proposal ReportOral Report and Peer
Evaluation
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Making Progress Revising/Deciding Your Research
Proposal

• Reorganize
• Rethink your topics and ideas Make sure it is an
  acceptable topic
• Be sure you have good reasons for doing the
  research Make everything logical and make sure
  your research topic is significant
• Be sure your research is useful to the field of
  interest State the contribution of your research
• Decision Making
• Decide the research proposal you would like to go
  for
• Add
• Add type of research thesis paper or analytical
  paper
• Add research purpose

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Research Purpose for Types of Research Papers

• Thesis Paper
• To defend or against
• To agree or disagree
• To persuade
• To advocate
• To criticize
• Analytical Paper
• To evaluate or to criticize
• To analyze the impacts, changes or influences
• To compare and contrast
• To examine
• To discuss the influence/relationships of.
• To provide alternative view points

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Revised Research Proposal Format

• Revised Research Proposal

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Evaluating Your Sources

• How do you know if the sources you have found are
  good or useful?

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Developing Your Source Evaluation Criteria

• Work with your group members to develop a source
  evaluation form to help you evaluate sources you
  found easily
• Submit your evaluation form to the teacher

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Primary Source V.S. Secondary Source
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Which of the following are primary source?

• Laboratory experiment
• Opinion papers
• Survey or questionnaire results
• Interview or observation results
• Critical reviews
• Book reviews
• Summaries
• Autobiographies
• Government or school documents
• Review articles or literature reviews
• Original empirical study
• Study report
• Biographies
• Critics and commentaries
• Diaries
• Handbooks
• Dictionaries

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Which of the following are primary source?

• Laboratory experiment
• Opinion papers
• Survey or questionnaire results
• Interview or observation results
• Critical reviews
• Book reviews
• Summaries
• Autobiographies
• Government or school documents
• Review articles or literature reviews
• Original empirical study
• Study report
• Biographies
• Critics and commentaries
• Diaries
• Handbooks
• Dictionaries

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Primary Source V.S. Secondary Source

• Primary Source
• Original materials on which the study is based
  (e.g. interviews, questionnaires, surveys,
  documents, observations etc.)
• Report discoveries or share new information (e.g.
  empirical study results, laboratory experiment,
  interview results, etc )

• Secondary Source
• Critics, evaluations and commentaries of the
  primary sources (e.g. opinion papers,
  commentaries, analytical papers, etc.)
• Descriptions, interpretations, reviews, summaries
  of the primary sources (e.g. review articles,
  literature reviews, biographies, etc.)

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Next Week

• Revised Research Proposal Due-Upload to ecourse
  and bring one paper copy to class
• Topic Documenting Bibliography
• Readings p. 73-83,191-194, 238-255
• Bring sources you have found