A8.5: Week 8 Reflection

Aims and Objectives:

My goals for this week were:

• To revise my project prospectus.  I wanted to review my prospectus and determine what I needed to do to answer my essential question.  I structured my foundation questions in a way that would lead to the conclusion that I wanted people to come too.
• To complete my third genre.  I wanted to complete my third genre and make sure that it would answer a foundation question that was vital to my research.
• To provide my classmates with helpful feedback.  I wanted to help my classmates improve upon their work and give them positive feedback.

Declarative Knowledge:

This week I learned more about information literacy.  I learned that it is a skill that is vital for survival in today’s society.  I think in order to be a life-long learner, good student, and professional you need to possess this skill.  It will help you determine when information is needed and how you can obtain the information.

Procedural Knowledge:

The first assignment that I tackled this week was responding to my classmates second genre.  I went to their websites and read their genre.  I then asked myself the following questions:

• What voice was it written in?
• Who was the target audience?
• What is the author saying?
• What is good about the work?
• How can the work be improved?

I answered these questions and posted my comments to their webpages.  I then researched information literacy and reflected on the importance of it in today’s society.  I posted my thoughts to my weblog.  After meeting with Mrs. McComas I revised my prospectus.  With her help I determined what questions I should ask in order for my audience to come to the conclusion that I wanted them too.  I then decided what my third genre would be and did some additional research through databases.

Conditional Knowledge:

 Knowing more about information literacy will help me improve upon my skills and be more literate.  This skill will help me throughout my life.  I think that is a critical skill to possess in today’s society.  The research project is really  helping me as a student and future clinician.  I think that I am learning a lot of valuable information about my topic.

Questions:

When citing within the poem, for example, I put broken speech (which is my way of saying agrammatism), I learned this from a source, so can it be cited as a summary?