Karol's English Blog 7thpd

 Prompt:  Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research. Prompt Response: The most compelling issue connected to it is the massive enforcement and deportation initiatives with humanitarian protection obligations and civil liberties. More specifically, the tightened U.S. immigration regime, I find it interesting and important since it's a big major issue today. The immigration policies of the country had impacted economically, socially, and politically, creating different outcomes for the immigrants or migrants who struggle to survive. Summary: Today we worked on selecting sources, each person presented a source from each category, then we would pick the best one to use. Mr. Rease gave us two worksheets to work on, my group managed to finished one paper. We had to fill in the ...

 Prompt:  What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements. Prompt Response: There were barely any challenges in our group while selecting and analyzing sources, it went by smoothly without any huge disagreements, instead we reasoned and quickly decided.  We would first go to each other's sources and present them to each other, once we choose one source out of three we move on to the next section. Each one of us got to contribute and have at least one of our sources used to help support our research question. Summary: Today the class continued to work on the worksheets Mr. Rease gave us back on Monday, our group continued on to the next page. Each one of us would go over the sources originating from us, looking for direct quotes for our evidence, Mr. Rease told us that it had to be from the same page. After each one of us found the eviden...

 Prompt:  How has completing the annotated bibliography changed or clarified your understanding of your research topic? Discuss how your sources connect to one another and how they are shaping your argument moving forward. Prompt Response: It changed or clarified my understanding of my research topic by helping me understand how different an impact the U.S. immigration policies have on their own country and onto others. I get to understand how the United States handles immigration or migration. Whether its economically, socially, or politically, I see how different it is in each situation. Summary: Today we continued to work on our Annotated Bibliography, it is due by the end of class or 11:59 PM. Mr. Rease wanted us to work on it all class with effort put into it, if he saw no progress he would take points off of it. I had already turned in mine before the 7th period, I only needed to revise it. Reflection:  Today was a simple day for me, although my goal was to fully re...

Prompt:  Which part of the annotated bibliography (summary, reflection, or evaluation) was the most challenging for you, and why? Explain how that challenge helped you grow as a researcher and how it will help you when writing your research paper. Prompt Response: All three was pretty easy for me, nothing was too challenging, I only struggled for a bit starting it off with the image but other than that it was easy. But I do take more time and thinking with the reflection, the summary naturally takes me time without needing much of a thought. Summary: Today Mr. Rease introduced us to our new assignment in Writable, the Annotated Bibliography, reading over the instructions and looking at the examples we got the gist of it. For each source we have to write a paragraph with their summary, reflection, and evaluation. It took a lot of time for the each of us to even be around half the work, depends on the student, but Mr. Rease had mercy on us to allow us to turn it in on Friday instead....

 Prompt:    As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue. Prompt Response: The differences I noticed between my sources was the variety of choices of any possibilities that involves with border control and immigration. But then again I may be spouting nonsense, these differences did help me better understand the complexity of my issue, allowing me to see how much influence there is in the world when it came to immigration, migration, or border control. Especially with how effective the U.S. immigration policies can be with modern migration challenges.  Summary: Today Mr. Rease showed us how to find sources on the Data/Statistic Source part, he then told us what we needed to have and do for today. After the lesson, we were told to continue working on our sources and warned by Mr. Rease ...

 Prompt:  Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found. Prompt Response: I don't see much of a difference from how I have searched for information in the past, I guess the only difference is how much information was needed and using more resources. Using specific strategies and evaluating sources had impacted the quality of what I found by giving me more opportunities to find more legitimacy with my research. Summary: Today Mr. Rease went over the steps on how to build our research by locating credible, diverse sources using GALILEO and EasyBib. We spent the entire class time learning how we could use these sites and what we had to work on. Reflection: I admit I was once again drowsy and sleep, in and out of it, but I did try to pay attention and got most of the information I need...