Summary of Class 09: Today, you shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the causes and effects of your issue. Our focus was on documenting and organizing your work. Furthermore, creating reflection questions about your issues can help you gather informative research for your discussions and presentations. We also focused on helping with online searches, note-taking, and mind-mapping to help make sense of and discuss your research. Finally, you wrote reflections of your learning in class in your Google Doc:

1. How did you participate in class today? Please describe as best you can.

2. What did you learn about your issue? Your speaking pairs issues? 

3. What are your next SMART (simple, manageable, attainable, real, timely) learning goals? 

Homework is due on Friday by 1 pm before Class 10. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “Class 09 Cycle 4 sharing research notes 4: Possible Actions and Solutions.”

Please research the same research issue using two Internet sources, books, newspapers, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should focus on the possible actions or solutions for Your Issue. Then take two to four pages of notes for each reading or viewing, using the keywords on the pages. Remember to include the author’s name(s), date, and page or paragraph numbers in your notes when using direct quotations. These actions will help you avoid copying and pasting when note-taking, instead summarizing in your own words or using quotation marks to highlight the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.

New note: Please refrain from researching solely in Japanese and translating, as this does not support your English reading skills. Some research on law and Japan is acceptable, but it would be more comprehensive to explore studying in English through a variety of publications rather than relying on a single source.

Moreover, here are the links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:

Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion

Learning About Global Issues

Note-taking on Age Discrimination

Note-taking on the Right to an Education

And more search engines:

Carrot 2: Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then clicking on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open-access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent and free, and it is indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidence for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.

Google Scholar: Google Scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also enables you to cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.

CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving unrestricted access.

Essential quick guides for documenting your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system, and the focus is more on the content of your research:

A Very Quick Guide APA 7th

APA 7th Edition Quick Guide

Useful Phrases to Remember