Lab work: Summary of Evidence

We are in the lab today to have time to work on your IA Part B: Summary of Evidence. This is essentially a summary of your research notes in a logical order.

Basic requirements:

1. Typed
2. Research question at the top of the page.
   
3. Approx. 400 words
4. Bullets (complete sentences) or paragraphs
5. Footnotes as citations in Turabian format
6. Due this Friday

Whether you use bullets or paragraphs, you will need to divide the evidence into sections that are relevant to your research question. See this sample for an idea of what your bullets should be like.

After you read this, please create a document, save it, and get started.

Remember, if you are going to google doc me, it has to have your name and summary of evidence.

Monday March 16, 2009 Lab Work

We are in the lab today for 2 purposes.

First, to work on Part A: Plan of Investigation for your IA. This is a short but important section in which you lay out how you intend to answer your research question, It is due on Thursday this week, and you will need to keep an electronic copy (google doc or email attachment) for yourself.

Secondly, we are here to continue working on researching and taking notes for your IA in the specified format. See handout for the specific format (also available in google docs).

This IA project will be ongoing for the next 4 weeks. It is imperative that you also work on it at home as well as our time in school.

Lab Work 03/13/09: Research Day for your IA

We are in the lab today to work on locating sources for your IA research project. You should approach the steps in this order:

1. Observe the upcoming due dates here.
   
2. Locate books or journal articles on your topic through the Sturgis library and online databases, and the CLAMS library system and their online databases.
3. Focus on quality of sources, not quantity of sources.
4. Take notes on your sources in the note card format that I specified through google docs and here.
   
5. You can take notes on paper/note cards, or on google docs; it is up to you.
   

SHARE YOU GOOGLE DOC WITH ME ASAP!

Wiki Answers on US WW2 Mobilization

Are you familiar with wikis?

A wiki is essentially an editable type of webpage. It's based on the idea that users of the internet can be CONTRIBUTORS as well as CONSUMERS. You like that, right?

It requires very good manners (for example, not deleting other peoples' work).

So, I was browsing some topics on wikianswers.com and I found two questions for our class. In class today, we are going to work in medium-sized cooperative groups to improve the answers that are already on this wikianswers reagrding WW2.

Question #1: link How did the US mobilize to fight in WW2?
Question #2: link How did US mobilization for WW2 affect women and minorities?

Go to the links and then IMPROVE the existing answers with information from the the textbook.

Your GOAL is to create the most complete, detailed, comprehensive answer.