Free Write-Research Paper or Group Exercise?

I need more time to work on my research paper, so I believe the in-class time would be very helpful. I still have to come up with a topic and this class would help me do that. Once I come up with a topic, I can use the rest of the time looking at sources and developing an outline for project 3.

Free Write- Thesis Statement and Research Outline

Thesis Statement: Abolitionists in this age are using tactics from abolitionists in the past

Research Outline:

• Look at what abolitionists were like in the past
• Use of technology in anti-slavery act
• William Lloyd Garrison
• printing press
• Modern abolitionists
• Books, films, students, churches
• Twitter, Facebook

Free Write-Harassment in the Workplace

• Problem
• Risk of sexual harassment on the job
• Whether workers are compensated for sexual harassment risk
• Pay differential based off of high and low risk jobs
• DIfference in compensation based on gender
• Men get compensated on average $0.50 more and women $0.25 more

• Where are sources
• Harassment charges
• Civil Rights Act
• US Equal Opportunity Commission
• People who were sexually harassed in the workplace
• Women in construction and mining

Free Write-Three Questions

I found this assignment to be difficult at first because I didn't really know what I wanted to write about or look for towards my project 3 paper. There is quite a range of possibilities to write about that have to do with the ethics of technology. Once I started looking back at my books though, the questions came more easily for me.

Free Write-Where I Am At/Where I Will Be At

Right now, my mind has already transitioned to spring break. I'm excited to have a week off, but I'm having a hard time finishing off this week strong. I've been good at handling my stress lately, but the one thing I need to work on is making sure I get my reading done for my classes. During spring break, I plan to do a lot of work. The week I come back from break, I have three tests and two papers due, so I need to prepare for these over my week off. Once I come back from break, there will be only six weeks left until the end of the semester. I need to make sure I stay on top of everything and not become a procrastinator.

Notes About Reasearch

• Research is the world's biggest industry
• Research reported in writing is the source of what we most believe
• Research is different than opinion
• It's ok to be skeptical of the research that you read...
• What is research?
• Broad terms -- we "do" research whenever we gather information to answer a question that solves a problem
• Writing Up Research
• Remember
• Understand
• To test your thinking
• Why a Formal Report?
• Satisfy demands imposed by a community of people competent in a given field
• You demand more from yourself when it is to be distributed to others
• Embody the shared values of a learning community
• Connecting with your reader
• Research is a conversation...
• Research can be like a bad classroom experience...
• You must think of your reader as someone who doesn't know it but needs to and yourself as someone who will give her reason to want to know it
• I've Found Some New and Interesting Information...
• These facts will help you do something to solve a problem you care about.
• Even if you don't have the audience right now, you must write as if you do. You must present yourself as interested in, even enthusiastic about wanting to share something new
• Their more common role is that of scholars who help their research community simply understand something better
• Wayne C. Booth;Gregory G. Colomb;Joseph M. Williams.The Craft of Research,Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing (pp. 18-19). Kindle Edition.
• Three Roles of the Researcher
• I have information for you...
• I can help you fix a problem...
• I can help you understand something better...
• Understanding the Audience
• You must understand what they want...
• You meet your end of the bargain when you share whatever would interest them
• You are concerned with your particular community of readers, with their interests and expectations, with improving their understanding, based on the best evidence you can find
• Checklist...
• Who will read my report?
• What do they expect me to do?
• How much can I expect them to know?
• How will readers respond to the solution in my main claim?

Free Write-Best Experience of Research

I have written several research papers throughout my years in school, but my best piece of research was about school bullying. I am very passionate about ending bullying in schools, which is one reason why I can say that paper was my best piece of research. Another reason was because there was and still is so much material on the subject. Because of all the available material, it was like I had already put together a paper.