April 1, 2015 (Wednesday)

Time: 8pm-11pm (3)
Hours completed (IST): 109/135
Hours completed (Kara Robinson): 15/15
Accumulated on-site hours: 124/150

 Tomorrow I will be soloing two English BIs with Tammy observing. It will be two sections of the same class which means that I am really just preparing for one. The professor sent over the two assignments that we are meant to help with which is an annotated bibliography and a thesis-driven argument. Tammy said that she liked my approach from Match 10 and that she would like to see me use that, so I created two search string examples: a general search and one that is based on a more fleshed-out, specific topic. Tammy also suggested that I could get some books together from reference to bring to the class, which I plan to do tomorrow.

The students have a very open topic: they need to write about an aspect of pop culture that affects modern society. She is more interested in journals though the students can use some books, so I am going to focus on Discovery and then explain/show how these searches can be duplicated in KentLINK.

Search Example #1

Search String: pop culture (I debated using pop* but felt that it would return more bad hits than good)

pop culture [238,910 hits]
SPRJ (limiter) [26,827 hits/ 88.7% less]
2010-2015 (date range limiter) [6,157 hits]
Academic Journals (source limiter) [5,002 hits]
English (language limiter) [4,526 hits]
United States (geography limiter) [199 hits/ 99.9% less]

Search Example #2

Topic: That reading comic books does not lead to juvenile crime.

Search String: (comic book* OR comic*) AND (child* OR juvenile* OR teenag*) AND (violen* OR crime* OR crimin*)

comic book* OR comic* [1,760,552 hits]
child* OR juvenile* OR teenag* [187,191 hits]
violen* OR crime* OR crimin* [4,751 hits]
SPRJ (limiter) [710 hits]
2000-2015 (date range limiter) [541 hits]
English (language limiter) [510 hits]
United States (geography limiter) [30 hits]