Our digital scrapbook of all things related to our course theme (Freaks and Geeks: Subcultures and Countercultures) Please post any sites, articles, videos, images that you find interesting and add a brief comment to get the conversation started. Post at least once a week!
British Naturism is the representative body for Naturists in the UK.
I want to share my subculture with the group and some of the research that I am doing. Just a heads up, there are naked people on this site! If you want to know a little more about naturism, take a look. Under the campaigning drop down tab you can find what Naturists are all about. I think many people are grossed out or laugh at nudists but as I research them I am realizing that there are many things that they stand for that I agree with. Check it out!
Here are some tips to help determine the credibility of a source, like the exercise we did in class Tuesday. This will come in handy as we are researching for our subcultures. Also, this website wikihow is a content farm like Yahoo! Voices, which we also talked about in class.
This short video is helpful to know how to organize your thoughts more effectively. It points out the basics of how to pose questions in your research so can narrow down your search and find information more effectively.
There are many types of sources that you could use in your papers (journal articles, books, newspapers, interviews, etc.), but not all of them are good sources. Good sources give you reliable, accurate information based on real research.
I thought this was interesting, seeing as we are all looking for reliable resources for our explanatory essays.
I thought this list of research tips from U.S. News is although very short, it's also very effective in describing key things to focus on during research. I especially though that #2 was a great way to look at your sources when doing the actual writing part of the paper.
I was reading some of these when I was looking for something to post this week. I thought this list was very useful and I will be using some of these tips for our paper!
Purdue OWL is always a site I visit when I have questions about writing. It is also super helpful when I have questions about citations. Here is "Writing a Research Paper." It may come in handy during this segment.
I use this site often for research papers considering it is usually the expressed form to write a research paper in. It helps my writing go more smoothly and flow better in text.
I found this article very interesting and relevant because the rhetor brought in many sources to look at both sides of the argument being discussed. Another thing I noticed was everything that was said was backed up by a creditable source.
I thought it was nice to see how to write a research paper from a different point of view. This site also provides an itinerary for the amount of work you should put forth, of course it is not adjusted to our interval we have to work with so that must be taken into consideration. I thought this was helpful.
Information literacy skills are used for academic purposes, such as research papers and group presentations. They're used on the job-the ability to find, evaluate, use and share information is an essential skill. This is the website all about information literacy.
