1. ENGLISH 202: Research Writing February 17 th

2. AGENDA

• IUP English conference updates

• Research article sections

• Looking at sample articles

• Writing your introductions

• Tipping Point Chapter 4. Presented by: Cathy, Alan, Nora

3. Reminders

• Due dates: Introductions DUE Monday

• Annotated Bibliographies: DUE WEDNESDAY

• Guest speaker from the library on Monday. Bring 3 key words/pharses for your research.

4. What sections do you normally see in a research article?

• Class Ideas:

• Abstracts

• Intros: thesis

• Methodology

• Data Collection

• Data Analysis

• Results

• Conclusion

5. TITLE ABSTRACTSUMMARY OF THE WHOLE ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONOVERVIEW OF THE ARTICLE, STATISTIC INFORMATION BODY: METHOD DATA ANALYSIS RESULT

6. Breaking the Code: Analyzing Research Writing Samples

• Skim through the research article with your group-mates. Do some active reading. (Read with a pen/highlighter in your hand). In your groups, address to the following questions;

• What are the main components/sections of this research paper? What is this article about?

• What is the goal of each section?

• What are the research questions?

• What areas of literature were added to this research paper?

• How were the participants recruited for this study?

• What steps are followed to answer the research question(s) and study the participants? In other words, what methodology is used in this research paper?

• What were the findings?

• How did the author conclude the research paper?

• What have you gained from reading this research paper?

• What aspects of social diversity issues were gleaned from this paper?

7. Introduction

• Include your thesis statement and research questions.

• Indicate the significance of this study. Who should care about your research?

• Tell your readers what the purpose of your research study is .

• Open your paragraph with an attention grabber. It could be some statistical information, a question, quote or an anecdote. This will make your reader interested in your research and will make them want to read your paper.

• Put yourself in your readers shoes. Remember the audience issue we discussed last week. What background information do you think your readers need to know to understand your research?

• In your introduction you can also include some of your literature.

8. Thinking about the Introduction of your research projects

• Starting a paper is often the most difficult part of the research papers. It is crucial to ask these tow questions:

• What is the purpose of this research?

• Who cares about this? What is the significance?

• Who is my audience?

9. Workshop on Introductions

10. Proofreading

• Please proofread your introductions before you hand it in on Monday

• You tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ

11. Tipping Point Chapter 4: The Power of Context

• Main Point:

• Gladwell argues that human beings are a lot more sensitive to their environment than they may seem. People are shaped by their external environment. That features our immediate social and physical world

• Examples: Crime in New York, prisoner example. Prison experiment by Zimbardo

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vPR0J-Golo

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6m_vbNVs6Y

12. The cause of violent behavior in societies

• Tipping points may be as simple and trivial as everyday signs of disorder like graffiti and fare-beating

• Your actions are guided by the immediate context of your behavior.

13.

• Gladwell takes on the strangely rapid decline in violent crime rates that occurred in NYC.

• A number of New York City agencies began to make decisions based on the Broken Windows theory, which held that minor, unchecked signs of deterioration in a neighborhood or community could, over time, result in major declines in the quality of living. the 1990s in New York City.

14.

• Gladwell cites that authorities started focusing on seemingly small goals like painting over graffiti, and cracking down on subway toll skippers. Gladwell contends that these changes in the environment allowed the decline in crack cocaine use and the aging of the population, to gradually tip into a major decline in the crime rate in the city.

15. Gladwell mainly argues that

• The essence of the Power of Context is that our inner states are the result of our outer circumstances.

16. Assignments

• Work on your introductions (2 pages)

• Read Tipping Point Chapter 5

• Bring at least 3 descriptors for your library research.