The DK Handbook:
Why Cite and Document Sources: Don't we all want to live in a world where people respect others ideas and research by their supporting evidence? The reason is that when people do read your work they don't have to like it, but they can judge that by looking up your supporting evidence. Cite means, to name the people from whom you got your ideas. To document is where exactly you found these ideas. Such as in a newspaper, book, online etc.
Citing and Documenting: There are four facets to citing and documenting. the first is using others words in your writing by quoting, summarizing or paraphrasing. Second is collecting the citation information you need for any source you use. Third is creating In-Text Citations for your sources. Fourth is creating Work Cited References Lists and Bibliographies.
Quoting, Summarizing and Paraphrasing: Quoting is emphasizing the exact words that are used by the author. Summarizing focuses readers on the main points of the argument. Paraphrasing allows you to maybe make difficult reading used by the author, into easier reading that the reader can understand.
Sources: There are five kinds of sources and each one requires different citation information. One is printed books. Two is parts of printed books. Three is print periodicals. Four is web pages and five is everything else. The DK Handbook gives you the pages to find out more on how to cite these sources.
Hints and Tips for Evaluating Sources: Make sure you have enough credible sources to persuade your audience that this is an arguable topic. Look at your thesis statement to make sure you can answer the question of the argument for your readers.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
"The Horror of Eating Disorders"
This is how it is, eating disorders are a huge epidemic in the world today. Woman especially, and young teens want to look like all of the models. This generation is expecting woman to have the hour glass figure, no flaws. So this establishes one of the causes of an eating disorder. There is so much pressure put on by the social economy to be slender. Due to the lack of correct parenting, and just eating healthy, woman are falling into a deep dark never ending battle of what we define as an eating disorder. The big argument here is how serious it can effect you for the rest of your life. What can we do to change the idea of being perfectly shaped. Analysts warn us that two out of one hundred kids struggle with an eating disorder. Most commonly anorexia or bulimia. It also suggests that unfortunately many kids and teens are able to hide this from their families, for months or even years. Due to these statistics, this implies parents aren't paying close attention to all the important warning signs of an eating disorder. Are these parents bad parents, or are they just not realizing, or just in denial of something so life changing as an eating disorder can be. Some of the signs are, losing weight, even if your child is already slender. Saying all the time that their not hungry, thinking or talking about being fat consistently. One big one is excessive exercising to lose weight. This can damage you for the rest of your life. The fact is that woman don't think about the long term consequences, they often think of the short term happiness of looking good. People with anorexia have an extreme fear of weight gain. This becomes an obsession to them, watching every calorie they intake into their bodies. Always asking questions about the calories. Bulimia is excessive, or binge eating, and rarely experiences the low weight associated with anorexia. Although anorexia and bulimia are very similar, people with anorexia tend to be thin and people who struggle with bulimia may be of normal weight, or even over weight. Due to these facts and statistics parents need to be aware and alert of what's going on in there child or teens lives. This does and can start at a young age. It's known to be a very hard obsession to get rid of.
This is how it is, eating disorders are a huge epidemic in the world today. Woman especially, and young teens want to look like all of the models. This generation is expecting woman to have the hour glass figure, no flaws. So this establishes one of the causes of an eating disorder. There is so much pressure put on by the social economy to be slender. Due to the lack of correct parenting, and just eating healthy, woman are falling into a deep dark never ending battle of what we define as an eating disorder. The big argument here is how serious it can effect you for the rest of your life. What can we do to change the idea of being perfectly shaped. Analysts warn us that two out of one hundred kids struggle with an eating disorder. Most commonly anorexia or bulimia. It also suggests that unfortunately many kids and teens are able to hide this from their families, for months or even years. Due to these statistics, this implies parents aren't paying close attention to all the important warning signs of an eating disorder. Are these parents bad parents, or are they just not realizing, or just in denial of something so life changing as an eating disorder can be. Some of the signs are, losing weight, even if your child is already slender. Saying all the time that their not hungry, thinking or talking about being fat consistently. One big one is excessive exercising to lose weight. This can damage you for the rest of your life. The fact is that woman don't think about the long term consequences, they often think of the short term happiness of looking good. People with anorexia have an extreme fear of weight gain. This becomes an obsession to them, watching every calorie they intake into their bodies. Always asking questions about the calories. Bulimia is excessive, or binge eating, and rarely experiences the low weight associated with anorexia. Although anorexia and bulimia are very similar, people with anorexia tend to be thin and people who struggle with bulimia may be of normal weight, or even over weight. Due to these facts and statistics parents need to be aware and alert of what's going on in there child or teens lives. This does and can start at a young age. It's known to be a very hard obsession to get rid of.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Creating a Topic
Answers to the questions:
A. Making sure it fits the assignment, assigned by the instructor. Interesting to you. It can be researched.
B. Library Catalogs, intranet, databases and newspapers.
C. Female basketball athletes in Utah.
D. Bills, cellphones, state legislatures, laws, reckless driving and offenders.
E. Databases: Using two specific words, such as child and obesity.
Subject: Using one word, such as agriculture.
Finding full text: Such as typing in an article, and where it was written.
F. If your looking for a topic with two key words it saves a lot of time. Due to the fact it will pull up everything the database has on only those specific two words being used together. Not information on each word by itself.
Creating a Topic:
How to create a good and interesting topic. Also how to find your topics. Anyone can go to the public library, or your school library and look on databases. Or the library news page on the Internet. All you have to do is drag your mouse over the covers of the books and it will give you a brief summary of the book. You can also look in newspapers such as the Salt Lake Tribune, or Deseret News. Go online and look in google or the wikipedia. Some topics are to broad and you will get to many results such as entire fields of study for example, politics or physiology. To create a more narrow topic think of more specific such as, where, when what kind. Make topics into a open ended question. Then follow that into a thesis and pull key words out to help find your specific topic.
Cellphone Habits of the Experts:
Rony Seger, of Weizmann Institute of Science, claims to only use his cell phone no more than one hour a day. "Everything is a matter of dosage"(Seger 1). He suggests in keeping your cellphone at least twelve inches from your body, and using your speakerphone. Christopher Woollams, Founder and CEO of Canceractive, also agrees. Has three children with cellphones and won't even let them carry them around. Only to text sparingly or to use the speakerphone for emergency. He suggests you don't carry them on your bodies while they are turned on. Other experts such as Micheal Repacholi and John Boice say, they really are not concerned about the usage of cellphones. How many calls an individual might make in a day, if at all possible use a hands free kit. Which can reduce exposure levels by a factor of between 10-100. If you can't do that, cellphone use isn't going to kill you.
A. Making sure it fits the assignment, assigned by the instructor. Interesting to you. It can be researched.
B. Library Catalogs, intranet, databases and newspapers.
C. Female basketball athletes in Utah.
D. Bills, cellphones, state legislatures, laws, reckless driving and offenders.
E. Databases: Using two specific words, such as child and obesity.
Subject: Using one word, such as agriculture.
Finding full text: Such as typing in an article, and where it was written.
F. If your looking for a topic with two key words it saves a lot of time. Due to the fact it will pull up everything the database has on only those specific two words being used together. Not information on each word by itself.
Creating a Topic:
How to create a good and interesting topic. Also how to find your topics. Anyone can go to the public library, or your school library and look on databases. Or the library news page on the Internet. All you have to do is drag your mouse over the covers of the books and it will give you a brief summary of the book. You can also look in newspapers such as the Salt Lake Tribune, or Deseret News. Go online and look in google or the wikipedia. Some topics are to broad and you will get to many results such as entire fields of study for example, politics or physiology. To create a more narrow topic think of more specific such as, where, when what kind. Make topics into a open ended question. Then follow that into a thesis and pull key words out to help find your specific topic.
Cellphone Habits of the Experts:
Rony Seger, of Weizmann Institute of Science, claims to only use his cell phone no more than one hour a day. "Everything is a matter of dosage"(Seger 1). He suggests in keeping your cellphone at least twelve inches from your body, and using your speakerphone. Christopher Woollams, Founder and CEO of Canceractive, also agrees. Has three children with cellphones and won't even let them carry them around. Only to text sparingly or to use the speakerphone for emergency. He suggests you don't carry them on your bodies while they are turned on. Other experts such as Micheal Repacholi and John Boice say, they really are not concerned about the usage of cellphones. How many calls an individual might make in a day, if at all possible use a hands free kit. Which can reduce exposure levels by a factor of between 10-100. If you can't do that, cellphone use isn't going to kill you.
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