Period 3: Daily Log Blog 1/12/2018

Today we started class with Rivers reminding us that we have until 11:59 tonight to finish our research chart which included the one non-academic article, 2 academic articles and a film or movie that relates to the topic you have chosen with each section of the chart filled out. From there we moved on to taking our daily class notes for today. The notes were ...

Literature Review Structure:

• Introduce major speakers/topics/events
• Distill current state of conversion
• Call for research

Often published in the begging on the paper in order to give the writer ethos and credibility.

Major speakers topics and event

Who is talking and what are they talking about

Providing CONTEXT and carving out your path:

Using precision to NARROW RESEARCH FOCUS

(Psychology --- PTSD --- PTSD from Afghanistan ---  PTSD treatment for veterans of Afghanistan  )

Distill current state of conversion

What are these scholars saying to each other about your selected topic/idea/ question?

Key debates and other area of contention?

What are teachers (today) trying to do/prove?

How are they doing it(research methods) ?

Call for research

How does CINEMA contribute to this conversation?

Is research responding to [cinema choice] and or is [cinema choice] responding to research?

Which films/characters/plot-points/themes/metaphors/allegories/episodes/seasons will your paper inversage?

After these notes Rivers introduced our next part to the senior paper. The assignment is #8.1 : Literature Review. This assignment will be do January 18th at 11;59 pm so we have until next Thursday to work on it! The assignments basis is to "synthesize this information [our research] into a brief (500-750 words) literature review." There are questions to help start us off in the right track and you can find all that information again in the assignment.  It may seem a little confusing at first especially if you were absent today so I would recommend asking Rivers questions personally if you feel very stuck.  In class today I personal didn't get much done because I was discussing with my group and Mr. Rivers what the assignment itself is and also how to  apply it all to my own topics. 

HELPFUL HINT: It is going to be super important to stay organized with all of these documents and research pdfs so Rivers keep reminding us to make special folders, documents, labels and bookmarks in order to stay organized. I am usually a pretty organized person but I can already feel myself getting stressed with all these different components.