Today with Bill Grubb
- Course syllabus will be discussed and all course requirements and due dates discussed.
- Introduction to all instructors participating this year.
- Topics for the semester will be chosen.
- First set of 3 reference questions will be assigned.
- Brief of library tour.
- Don't forget to activate your student ID at the Circulation Desk to enable you to check out books and to access all our databases from off-campus.
Research Topics
You must pick one of the topics below. During each class you will find a different type of information about this same topic you pick today. Your final annotated bibliography will list all the sources collected during the semester. Choose wisely.
1. Jellyfish reproduction
2. Maori customs
3. Unbleached paper products
4. "The Rape of Nanking" (
5. Environmental pollution on
6. Technology for tidal power production
7. Micro nuclear reactors
8. Causes of The Dust Bowl
9. Can Bamboo save the planet?
10. Plant and animal life of Terra Del Fuego
11. Was Aaron Burr misunderstood?
12. Causes of the Mexican War
13. Shoeless Joe (baseball)
14. Russian mafia in the
15. Acupuncture
16. Roger Williams’ religion (he wasn't very popular in MA)
17. Quaker beliefs
18. Google’s future
19. The realMothman, not the movie
20. And Beowulf is great literature because…?
21. Emerging drugs from plants and animals
22. Pacific plastic vortex
23. Electric cars
24. Boss Tweed, infamous
25. Da Vinci as engineer
26. Rozwell,
27.
28. Is my food genetically modified?
29. I love peanuts. Tell me everything about them.
30. Why didn't some people like the book "Silent Spring"?
Today's Assignment
Reference Questions:
Read: Crap Detection 101 (San Francisco Chronicle)
View: http://www.wikiality.com/Wikiality
Watch: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/72347/july-31-2006/the-word---wikiality
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