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BOOST Worksheet
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Use the Assignment
Calculator to create a timeline for completing a selected assignment.
1.3.1 What is the name of the assignment?
1.3.2 What is the date today?
1.3.3 When is your assignment due?
According to the Assignment
Calculator…
1.3.4 By what date should you choose a topic and pose a research question?
1.3.5 When should you begin finding books/articles/websites?
1.3.6 When should you write your first draft?
1.3.7 When should you begin the revising and rewriting process?
2.1.1
What important verbs are included in the description
of your assignment?
2.1.2
What kind of approach do those verbs indicate?
2.1.3 Is there more than one part to your assignment? What are the main parts?
2.1.4 Briefly describe any special instructions given for
this assignment.
2.1.5 Who is the audience for your assignment?
2.1.6 What might your audience already know? What biases might they have?
2.2.1 Do you think books will be useful resources for your assignment? Why or why not?
2.2.2 Do you think scholarly journal articles will be useful resources for
your assignment? Why or why not?
2.2.3 Do you think popular magazine articles will be useful resources your assignment?
Why or why not?
2.2.4 Do you think websites will be useful resources for your assignment? Why or why not?
3.1.1 What is your broad subject?
3.1.2 List three possible topics for your assignment. (If a topic has been provided/selected for you, type it here.)
3.2.1 What is your research question?
3.2.2 Break down research question into 2-3 smaller concepts. List them here:
3.2.3
List any appropriate synonyms for each of your concepts.
3.2.4 List any alternative spellings, abbreviations, or
multiple endings that apply to your concept terms or synonyms.
3.3.1 Copy the AND search string you created with the terms students, jobs and grades. Paste it here:
3.3.2 Copy the OR search string you created with the terms job, employment, grades, and g.p.a.. Paste it here:
3.3.3 Copy the search string created with your own terms. Paste it here:
3.3.4 Would a truncation symbol be useful to use with any of the terms in your search string? If yes, list the terms here:
3.3.5 Are there any phrases related to your research question with which that you
might need to use quotations? If yes, list them here:
List them here:
4.1.1
Use BANC to locate 3 books related to your research question.
Copy and paste their titles and call numbers here:
Book1:
Book2:
Book3:
4.2.1 What is an article database? What does it include? How would it differ from the library
catalog? From search engines?
4.2.2 Which databases do you think will be best for searching
for articles related to your research question? Why?
4.2.3 View the “Example Database Search”. Then search the Academic Search Premier database to find one article related to your research question.
Copy and paste the citation here:
4.2.4 Was the full text of the article available online?
4.3.1 The example call number above begins with the
letters 808.02. Use the Dewey Decimal classification system link above to determine what broad subject the book having this call number would fall under.
stands for and what narrower subject “H List the broad subject here:
4.3.2 Use the same link to find the number code that
most closely matches your topic/research question, and type it here:
4.3.3 Click on the “Hutchins Library Call Number Map” link above. Describe where you would find books on Writing Research Papers and English Literature.
4.3.4 Describe where in Hutchins Library you would find books related to your research question.
4.4.1
List the title and
URL (web address) of one promising web page you found relating to your research question.
4.4.2 What is your favorite search engine?
4.4.3 What does the “advanced search” screen of your
favorite search engine allow you to do that the regular search screen does not?
5.1.1 The exercises in this section will help you evaluate
a specific book. Type the title and
author of the book you will evaluate here:
5.1.2 Answer the questions above for the book you are
evaluating. Overall, does what you know
about the author/authority of the book indicate that it will be a good resource? Explain.
5.1.3 Answer the questions above for the book you’re
evaluating. Overall, does what you know
about the purpose of the book indicate that it’s a good resource? Explain.
5.1.4 Answer the questions above for the book you’re
evaluating. Overall, does what you know
about the organization and content of the book indicate that it is a good
resource? Explain.
5.1.5 Answer the questions above for the book you’re
evaluating. Overall, does what you know
about the publisher of the book indicate that it is a good resource? Explain.
5.1.6 Answer the questions above for the book you’re
evaluating. Overall, does what you know
about the date of publication of the book indicate that it is a good resource? Explain.
5.1.7 Overall, is this book a good resource to use
for your assignment? Explain.
5.2.1 Describe—in detail and in your own words—the
difference between scholarly journal articles and popular magazine articles.
5.2.2 Why do you think many instructors require students
to use scholarly journal articles instead of popular magazine articles?
5.3.1 The exercises in this section will help you evaluate
a specific website. Type the title and
URL (web address) of the website you will evaluate here:
5.3.2
Answer the following questions about the web site you are evaluating.
5.3.3
Answer the following questions about the website you are evaluating.
5.3.4
Answer the following questions about the website you are evaluating.
5.3.5
Answer the following questions about the website you are evaluating.
5.3.6
Answer the following questions about the website you are evaluating.
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5.3.7 Of all the ways to evaluate a website, which do y do you think is most difficult? Explain.
6.1.1 Which of the above examples of plagiarism do you
think is the most common? Why?
6.2.1
Describe, in your own words, the differences among
quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing.
6.2.2
Explain how you should decide whether to quote, summarize,
or paraphrase a passage from a resource.
Using Resources – Cite
Your Sources
6.3.1
Determine which citation you will be using for your assignment. Type it here:
6.3.2
Cut and paste a citation you created using WriteNote into the space below. If unable to access WriteNote, create a citation following the MLA style.