Why does the violence in the inner-city neighborhoods goes unreported by the media?
My primary sources are few but they have enpugh information for me. I've posted one of my sources on my blog if you want to take a look at it. I should have the other one posted up some time this week. These sources are going to be my stat/fact sheet.
But i think the bulk of this paper is going to hinge on secondary sources. My mom works as a principal at an alternative school and she will share with me some of thier stories and experiences with me to help me with my paper.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
What i learned
I learned from my research that i have alot of work ahead of me if I want to write about this paper. With the limited amount of resourses around surrounding this subject, it is making this a little difficult than it should be. But i am not going to give up. I might have to use personal accounts as my sources until i find an article or source that fits topic perfectly. But it should come together in due time. If you have any suggestions that will help me out in my search for sources, then i will love for you to share it.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Plans to Do
My purpose is of this paper is to bring to light the undocumented killings and violence in the urban communities. I feel as though this would be a great topic in this day and age to do.
My audience would be to anybody who has an open ear and willing to listen. I just hope that this paper can do more than just give me a good grade. I hope that it will inform people of this serious issue and do something about it.
My audience would be to anybody who has an open ear and willing to listen. I just hope that this paper can do more than just give me a good grade. I hope that it will inform people of this serious issue and do something about it.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Exploring Your Research Questions
Part I: Exploration
1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
I plan to focus on the unreported killings in the urban community.
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
My personal connection to this topic is that I lived in the Englewood neighborhood and always hear or see things happened but is never reported on the news.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I feel that the media don’t think the killings aren’t newsworthy because everybody heard it before. Its like “old news”. So they focus their attention on something else like Britney Spears instead of more important factors.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic. What are your main
questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
I know and heard a lot of shootings by my house that are never reported. My main question is why do the media feel that stuff like this isn’t worthy of their time.
6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I don’t have a clue but I am willing to find out.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?
Of course you can. I can interview a lot of people to help me out and give me stories, feedback, and personal accounts of killings or shootings they heard or saw that never got reported.
Part II: Focusing Write an initial claim, or an open-ended question, to guide your research on this topic. Make it specific but exploratory. Remember that a good claim opens up an area of inquiry about a topic; a claim should invite evidence, support, and debate.
Why do the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?
1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
I plan to focus on the unreported killings in the urban community.
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
My personal connection to this topic is that I lived in the Englewood neighborhood and always hear or see things happened but is never reported on the news.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I feel that the media don’t think the killings aren’t newsworthy because everybody heard it before. Its like “old news”. So they focus their attention on something else like Britney Spears instead of more important factors.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic. What are your main
questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
I know and heard a lot of shootings by my house that are never reported. My main question is why do the media feel that stuff like this isn’t worthy of their time.
6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I don’t have a clue but I am willing to find out.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?
Of course you can. I can interview a lot of people to help me out and give me stories, feedback, and personal accounts of killings or shootings they heard or saw that never got reported.
Part II: Focusing Write an initial claim, or an open-ended question, to guide your research on this topic. Make it specific but exploratory. Remember that a good claim opens up an area of inquiry about a topic; a claim should invite evidence, support, and debate.
Why do the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?
Monday, October 15, 2007
Research Topics
I need your views of what you think works as good research topic and question.
1. What effect does economic social class in America have on the amount of people going to college?
2. Have the large salaries of professional athletes had a negative impact on the athletes, the sports, and on America?
3. Why does the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?
Bonus: How have stereotypes affected the way people view each other from differeant parts of the country?
1. What effect does economic social class in America have on the amount of people going to college?
2. Have the large salaries of professional athletes had a negative impact on the athletes, the sports, and on America?
3. Why does the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?
Bonus: How have stereotypes affected the way people view each other from differeant parts of the country?
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Bibliographic Citations
Ohmann, Richard. "Computers and Technology." Radical Teacher (2002): 1-6.
Stroll, Clifford. "Who Needs Computers." School Library Journal (2001): 46-49.
Kern, Richard G. "Restructuring Classroom interaction with Networked Computers:Effects on Quanity and Characterisics of Language Production." Modern Language Journal (1995): 457-476. JSTOR 1 Oct 2007. www.JSTOR.org
Stroll, Clifford. "Who Needs Computers." School Library Journal (2001): 46-49.
Kern, Richard G. "Restructuring Classroom interaction with Networked Computers:Effects on Quanity and Characterisics of Language Production." Modern Language Journal (1995): 457-476. JSTOR 1 Oct 2007. www.JSTOR.org
Monday, October 1, 2007
Sources for my synthesis paper
Here are a few sources that I think may aid me in my research.
1. http://www.jstor.org/view/00267902/ap020557/02a00020/0
2. Computers and Technology.pdf (1.449 Mb) by Richard Ohmann. Radical Teacher, no. 63, pp. 2-6, Spr 2002.
3. stoll, who needs computers.pdf (1.135 Mb) from School Library Journal, v47 n10 p46-49 Oct 2001.
4. http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030751/03a00250/0
1. http://www.jstor.org/view/00267902/ap020557/02a00020/0
2. Computers and Technology.pdf (1.449 Mb) by Richard Ohmann. Radical Teacher, no. 63, pp. 2-6, Spr 2002.
3. stoll, who needs computers.pdf (1.135 Mb) from School Library Journal, v47 n10 p46-49 Oct 2001.
4. http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030751/03a00250/0
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