Friday, October 15

Very Important Message Regarding Monday's Class!

Everyone, I must inform you that the proposed field trip which was to take place this Monday has to be postponed until later in the semester; therefore, meet in our regular room as normally scheduled. This postponement is due to a number of logistical reasons of which you need pay no mind. But what is important to note and bring to your attention is that by waiting we will be able to utilize a fully equipped, computer-tech classroom to perform a variety of tasks involving:
  • a skills review of using word processors and included resources
  • some quick document formatting tips
  • a discussion about how to use the Library resources at York College and other CUNY Libraries
  • a lesson in the means by which one can perform online scholarly research using journal databases
  • a demonstration showing how one can chose to use specified web-based tools which help one properly cite source material according to MLA, APA, and Chicago style formats  
To restate this one again, meet in our regular room as normally scheduled on Monday!!! 

Also, in addition to posting on the blog, bring a PRINTED COPY of e-journal #7 to class!!! We are going to perform an in-class activity which will utilize this assignment, hence it is vital that you bring a hard copy of your homework to class Monday.

It would beneficial for you to bring the Citation Handout, recently distributed, the Essay#2 Rubric, as well as the Gladwell, Gore, and Winn articles. I want to us to offer potential thesis statements and paper topics while in class in preparation for the upcoming essay assignment. I know that we can benefit greatly from such an activity.
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  1. shawnahenry37October 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM

    Can you remember the “good old days”, when people tuned into the radio and kicked back reading newspapers to find out the latest news or whats the current trend in the entertainment world? When people traveled by sailing the seas, or used horses to go on journeys? The traveling of information and the way it is manufactured has drastically changed. In this day and age information quickly travels through TV and the internet. These sources seem to be the new dominating route for news and entertainment. But as we recruit our information we also get resistant to dividing our time and evaluating what we see and hear. Non intentionally we invest too much time into TV watching. Marie Winn, author of “TV Addiction” tries to prove this by saying, “The television habit distorts the sense of time”[211]. In result, “It weakens relationships by reducing and sometimes eliminating normal opportunities for talking, for communicating”[211]. Our former vice president Al Gore, author of “The Assault on Reason” is confident that people spend more time watching TV rather than reading. He says, “…Americans made a drastic change in their daily routine, and started sitting motionless, staring at flickering images on a screen for more than thirty hours each weak”[7]. These authors are convinced that habitual TV watching takes valuable time away and corrupts independent thinking that leads to constructive outcomes for our daily lives and this nations democracy.

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