Use of Information Sources
ILS 244W Unit 2
Fall 2009
September 7-14
NOTE: Please print a copy of this page and keep it nearby for ready reference.
UNIT 2 READING ASSIGNMENT
- LECTURE: Read the lecture notes below (then take a quiz on the material).
- READINGS IN TEXT: Read chapter 2 (pp 23-46) in List-Handley (then take a quiz on the material).
Read the lecture material. After reading this material, visit your library. Explore the shelves to discover the type of classification system used in that library. Find the general class number for your academic major or primary academic minor. Ask the reference librarian to help you find Subject Headings used for your academic major/minor.
In your journal, record the date of your visit and a narrative about your experience and feelings during this visit. Title this entry "CLASSES AND SUBJECTS IN MY MAJOR/MINOR."
UNIT 2 WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
DAILY THEMES - [Point of View]
Write a one-page theme (250 words) for each day of this week.
Day 1: Consider some actual or imagined room. In one paragraph, describe the room's interior from a vantage point outside it, e.g., through an open door, a window, or a skylight. Then, in a second paragraph, describe what the viewer sees looking outward from within the room through the same aperture. Try to make each paragraph cohere and, if possible, to coordinate the ways in which each perspective characterizes the room.
Day 2: Take another room, real or imaginary. Again in two separate but connected paragraphs, describe the interior from the point of view (a) of someone intimately familiar with that room and (b) of a stranger, someone who is seeing it for the first time. You will need to decide about the implicit purpose of the account: for example, why does someone describe something he or she knows well, and to whom?
Day 3: Choose a pair of objects or phenomena you consider to be polar or antithetical (for example: sun-moon, night-day, mountain-valley, dog-cat, acid-base, land-sea, water-wine, body-soul, fish-fowl). Take the perspective of one of them and comment on the opposing member of the pair: i.e., write as sun about moon. Now vice-versa: i.e., wire as moon from the point of view of sun.
Day 4: Narrate an incident or event in which the "metaphorical" point of view of the speaker is connected to his/her "literal" point of view.
Day 5: Narrate the same incident that you chose for Thursday, but use a different point of view. (If you used first-person, change to third person; if you used third-person, change to first person). Think carefully about the details, the words, and possibly the tone that will need to change, too.
UNIT 2 LECTURE
Organizing Information (click on the title to go to this part of the lecture)
Notetaking can be problematic for some people. There are other options. Notetaking is just one technique of a larger set called GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.
Other techniques include: Concept Maps, Thinking Grids, and Cluster Diagrams. Other techniques can be found at Index of Graphic Organizers (click on a name to go to an explanation of the technique).
This week you will be writing short Daily Themes. Before you begin each theme, study a new type of graphic organizer and use it to organize your thoughts before you begin to write the day assignment.
UNIT 2 QUIZ
This is a short 5 question quiz covering the assigned reading for this unit. Take up to 10 minutes to complete the quiz. Be sure to complete your reading and review of your notes before entering the quiz. Some questions require you to apply what is learned from the readings. Other questions ask you to recall specific material.
UNIT 2 JOURNAL ENTRY
Visit your library. Explore the shelves to discover the type of classification system used in that library. Find the general class number for your academic major or primary academic minor. Ask the reference librarian to help you find Subject Headings used for your academic major/minor.
In your journal, record the date of your visit and a narrative about your experience and feelings during this visit. Title this entry "CLASSES AND SUBJECTS IN MY MAJOR/MINOR."
On this class site, every effort has been made to acknowledge the work of others. Any omission is unintentional. If anyone finds an oversight, please contact me at brownm6@southernct.edu immediately so that any error can be corrected.
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