« August 2008 | Main | October 2008 »
Susan Hall asked me to create a research guide for this course. No presentation.
Students will compose lots of short papers and other assignments.
Prof. Hall teaches two sessions of this course. It should reach about 30 students.
I made a classroom presentation to Dayo Abah's JOUR 101 class (40 students, mostly first-year), discussing the sources and such listed in this research guide.
Each student will be writing a paper on a topic in the subject area.
I made classroom presentations to both sections of Robin LeBlanc's POL 355 course (total of 23 students), using this research guide. Each student will write a research paper on some aspect of the course's subject matter.
Prof. Hall
7 students
9/26/08
All declared English majors are required to take the 299 course. They will write several papers.
Course: INTR 202 Applied Statistics
Presentation date: 9/23/08
Faculty: Cline
Number of students: 18
Librarian: Tombarge
Research guide URL: http://library.wlu.edu/guides/business/intr202.asp
Assignment: Students must come up with a topic and a hypothesis. For this topic they must find one scholarly article and then a source of data to test the hypothesis. The results will then be documented in a paper. Students will work in groups of 3.
I made classroom presentations to two sections of Tyler Dickovick's POL 105 course, which has a total of 51 students.
Here is their research guide. Most of their research work involves country analyses and comparisons.
Research Design and Analysis
Prof. Julie Woodzicka
Date: 9-17-08 E hour
course page: http://library.wlu.edu/guides/science/psych250.asp
~50 students (?)
Focused primarily on PsycINFO. Did a short "fundamentals of research" intro, then PsycINFO demonstration. Did an advanced search, showed them how to get full text (and convinced them that WebBridge is the best thing ever!) and how to request an ILL. We also talked about citation tracking, which PsycINFO now keeps track of.
Tectonics and Thermochronology
Prof. Jeff Rahl
Date: 9-15-08 B hour
Course page: http://library.wlu.edu/guides/science/geology360.asp
5 students
Demonstrated GeoRefs and Scopus. In Scopus, we did a lot with citation searching and author citation tracking. Jeff wanted Refworks as well, but I didn't have time, so I might make a tutorial or webpage.
Theater 151: Introduction to Theatrical Design
I made a presentation to Owen Collins' class of 9 students. Their project is to put together a visual presentation about stage designs of The Tempest.
9/18/08
I made a classroom presentation for Harvey Markowitz's ANTH 290B course (7 students), covering this research guide.
Each student is to write a 15-page "term essay" on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.
There will be appr. 40 students listening to this presentation. I do this every Fall and Winter for the Art department. Profs. O'Mara and Lepage will be present, and maybe other faculty as well.
Here is the accompanying guide.
9/17/08
Students in Toni Locy's class have a number of research assignments, involving finding newspaper articles, court records, other legal information, all kinds of stuff.
Here is the research guide (which worked almost not at all during the class presentation).
I gave an in-class presentation to the 7 philosophy majors (5 of whom are writing honors theses), and Profs. Mahon and Gregory.
The Philosophy Department's website has a direct link on it to my Philosophy page. Yeah!
9/15/08
I made an in-class presentation to Eduardo Velasquez's POL 396 class. Each of the 12 students is to prepare an extensive annotated bibliography (books, academic journals, criticism/opinion magazines, literary magazines) and write a 15-page paper on philosopher Leo Strauss.
Here is their research guide.
I made an in-class presentation to Mark Rush's POL 105 class (20 students), in which there is an assignment to write a term paper on some form of risk analysis of government in a foreign country.
Here is the research guide.
I made in-class presentations to both sections of Bill Connelly's POL 100 class (total of 34 students), which will have paper assignments on the 2008 elections, on partisanship in American politics, on The Federalist papers, and on James Madison.
Here is the research guide.
Sept. 10, 17, and 24, I will be in class from 12:20-3:30 pm. The rest of the term will be filled with individual meetings with the students.
Art 395
12 Students
Yolanda Merrill
I made in-class presentations to both sections of Krzysztof Jasiewicz's SOC 375 class (total of 16 students), reviewing the updated course research guide. Their first assignment requires them to come up with a social science research proposal on any topic of their choosing.
Mark Rush requested that I update the research guide for his POL 340 class, which has 13 students registered.
There will be no classroom presentation -- unless Professor Rush gets frustrated -- and he will send individual students to see me, as needed.
David Novack asked that I update the research guide for this course, which has 11 students pre-registered.
He prefers to wait until later in the term to set up any class meeting and/or individual sessions.
Sparse turnout today for 2 library orientation tours today -- fewer than 20 students. However, as always, the ones who were here were interested and engaged.