Research Tips and Tutorials

Faisal Alhajri, Alhajri, Hazza Fahad H, Alhajri, Mubarak M, Almnasef, Ahmed A, Peterson, Victoria A,

Determine the research subject

Types of reading materials for the kind of reseach a student wants to do

• Articles, books, newspapers, journals, etc.

Finding reading materials online

• Interlibrary Loans

Determining the validity of the source.

• Researching the author(s) and his/her knowledge on the subject
• Make sure the published date will not affect the usefullness of the information

Keep track of the sources in order to create a bibliography

• APA, MLA, etc.

Book Questions ''The Old Man and the Sea''

The Old Man and the Sea

1. Why did you select the book you brought to class?

Actually, I chose this book because I already read it, and I found it is a beautiful book.

2. How many authors does it have?

This book has one author, his name is Ernest Hemingway.

3. What is the title?

The title of this book is The Old Man and the Sea.

4. Who printed the book?

The printed is Charles Scribner's Sons.

5. Which city was it printed in, and when?

It printed in New York, United State of America. 1st edition 1952.

Step 2:

              The Old Man and the Sea is a book written by Ernest Hemingway. I chose this book because I like to read stories and I have already read this book. This book is talking about an old man who has a very good experience in fishing. Also, this book talked about the 84 days trip with a young boy without catching any fish. He struggled in the 84 day, but after that he catches his dream fish after a lot of barriers he faced.  This book was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and printed in 1952 in New York, USA.

Works Cited

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Print.

        

Research Tips and Tutorials

Research Tips and Tutorials:

I looked at most of topics and I found all of them helpful. Each topic gives you new and different information. But, I chose Research Tips and Tutorials because it is very good topic for me to learn how to do researches and to improve what I know about them. In this link you can find almost everything you need for your research paper. Also, there are some links teach you how to do your research paper and give you the rules you may need when you do your work. First, this link teaches you how to start your research, how to find a hot topic to search about, and the best link which is Library 101, which could help you to find most of the books, journals, videos, and articles you need to complete your task. Second, it is really helpful to find all resources you need. Moreover, it gives you knowledge about resources and how to do that. They also provide mobile apps to let students to search and do their work even from their phones. So, they also give their students some steps to know how to evaluate books, articles, web page, web sites, and how to evaluate criteria. Finally, they teach their students how to use the information they found in different ways and in different Citation Styles.

Sumary of part 3: Presentation

Summary

• How Conor described the United States after being gone for a year

• What Conor did with his time back in the US

• News from Nepal

• The email from Viva Bell

• New Generation Nepal

Analysis

• helps to create the contrast in the author’s experience and by extension
• The reason behind starting Conor's Non-profit organization
• What was necessary

Part 3 review

Group 3: Alhajri, Faisal M, Almnasef, Ahmed, Alsufair, Hussain Adel, Shi, Mengzhen, and Doege, Brandon


Upon returning to New Jersey after Conor's year long journey around the world. He was greeted first by his mother at the airport, and then soon after arriving home friends of Conor were inviting him out on the town. He had seen anyone for so long and had been gone for so long he has a lot to catch up on with his friends. Conor described home as "everything, everywhere, seemed squeaky clean. Everyone in the city dressed in clothes that positively gleamed, in collared shirts, gorgeously pressed and starched. Nobody wore the same clothes even two days in a row, let alone two months in a row" (Conor Grennan Little Princes pg 98). As Conor was enjoying his days back in the United States he did not forget about Nepal. He did not want to be a volunteer who disappeared back into his everyday life, so Conor sent emails frequently to Farid and Hari at the Little Princes orphanage.

Once Conor was back in New Jersey for a few weeks he started a job hunt. He had decided it was that time in his life to get a job, settle down with someone, and start a life. Conor was distracted however by the news from Nepal. Apparently after leaving Nepal the government situation had worsened and protesters were taken to the streets. At the height of the protesting, King Gyanendra on April 24, 2006 announced the reinstatement of the democratically elected parliament. Conor was excited for Nepal and thought the children at Little Princes now had a brighter future in front of them.

Soon after the cease-fire in Nepal, Conor received an email that would change everything he had decided to do with his life since he had been back in the United States. The email was from Viva Bell who was one of the leaders of the Umbrella Foundation. The email said that it had taken the team from the Umbrella Foundation three weeks to get across town to rescue the seven children because of the curfew put on the city by the government. Viva stated that they had found the house without trouble because of Conor's directions given to them. Upon arrival they found Nuraj's mother and her son but the seven children were nowhere to be found. They were soon informed that Golkka had heard the children were to be rescued and he had taken the children around forty-eight hours before the volunteers had arrived. Conor soon became haunted by the words he had said to the children before he left Nepal. He told them that "somebody was coming for them, somebody who they could trust" - (Conor Grennan, Little Princes, pg 101).

After sitting in his bedroom staring at the email for over an hour Conor glanced at his notebook next to the computer that had information on his job search. He tore the pages out and made a new page that contained the names of the seven children and that was is next objective. To save the seven children whom he felt he betrayed. Conor started by informing Farid of the situation with an email. Farid and Conor spent whole days brainstorming on how they would go about saving the children. They decided they somehow needed to raise money to give them a chance in providing the children with a safe place to live. The process started with Conor creating a nonprofit organization. This took many man hours because Conor had no idea how to even start. He needed to have a mission for this organization. After a few more days of brainstorming Conor decided on the mission for his nonprofit organization. His mission would be to find the families of the trafficked children in Nepal. He would start with the children of Little Princes then hopefully find the other seven children in the process. His organization was soon taking shape and he called it Next Generation Nepal. Once Conor raised enough money for his organization. He started using all his contacts he had and was soon back in Nepal to fulfill his nonprofit organizations goal of finding the families of trafficked children and his own personal goal of finding the seven children.

Analysis

As already alluded, this chapter helps to create the contrast in the author’s experience and by extension helps to give weight to the level of sacrifice that the author made when he decided to stay in Nepal and help the ‘orphans’ reunite with their parents. From the mother’s and friend’s reactions when they finally get to meet Grennan, it is evident that the author was loved very much back at home. The author’s description of the food back at home also proves that he had missed a lot during his time away from home. The author’s friends rush to hook him up with a mate also shows the changes in his social life. Furthermore, the author’s hurry to find a new job and his admission that he was broke shows the break in his career. All these happening serves one purpose: proving that the author selfness. It is interesting to note the kind of comfort that he, the author had decided to sacrifice in order to navigate the dangerous juggles of Nepal in order to keep his promise of reuniting the children at the orphanage with their parents. This chapter, above all, brings to the fore the fact that Grennan had performed his own expectation and the expectations of his own family and friends. At this point we see a man who had all the best that life could offer and who had set out just to have more fun and adventure but who is transformed into a selfless savior.

Analysis

Analysis

 

            As already alluded, this chapter helps to create the contrast in the author’s experience and by extension helps to give weight to the level of sacrifice that the author made when he decided to stay in Nepal and help the ‘orphans’ reunite with their parents. From the mother’s and friend’s reactions when they finally get to meet Grennan, it is evident that the author was loved very much back at home. The author’s description of the food back at home also proves that he had missed a lot during his time away from home. The author’s friends rush to hook him up with a mate also shows the changes in his social life. Furthermore, the author’s hurry to find a new job and his admission that he was broke shows the break in his career. All these happening serves one purpose: proving that the author selfness. It is interesting to note the kind of comfort that he, the author had decided to sacrifice in order to navigate the dangerous juggles of Nepal in order to keep his promise of reuniting the children at the orphanage with their parents. This chapter, above all, brings to the fore the fact that Grennan had performed his own expectation and the expectations of his own family and friends. At this point we see a man who had all the best that life could offer and who had set out just to have more fun and adventure but who is transformed into a selfless savior. 

Quotations and Paraphrasing Presentation (Group 4)

Names: 1-Faisal Alhajri 2-Victoria Peterson 3-Hussain Alsufair
                                              
                                         Quotations and Paraphrasing



Introduction

• Why quotations and paraphrasing is used
• What plagarism is
• What quotes are
• What paraphrasing is

Quotations

• Two parts of quotations
• Direct
• Indirect (or paraphrasing)
• When/how to use quotations
• To support an argument
• Use the most important part of the quotation
• How to introduce a quotation with the author's name / describe the source of the quotation

Paraphrasing

• Two methods: Literal and Free
• Literal- substitute original words
• Free- Used in final drafts, completely rearange words and sentence structure
• Reasons to use paraphrasing
• To retell a passage (usually to make sure the reader can understand)
• To explain what a passage or idea means

APA Style

• APA is the American Psychological Association
• This reference system is used for disciplines such as:
• Education
• Buisness
• Science
• What you need (it varries from what kind of source you got the quote from):
• Author's name
• Date / Published Date
• Website, book, article title, etc.
• If a quote is longer than 40 words, quotation marks would no longer be used. Instead, the quote must be indented and seperated from the rest of the text.
• When paraphrasing, elipses must be used (...)
• When changing words slightly, square brackets must be used

MLA Style

• MLA is the Modern Language Assosication
• It is used as a reference system for Liberal Arts and Humanities
• Always have to use the author's name in the text unless there is no documented author
• How to use quotations
• Use quotation marks with short quotations (four lines or less), must cite the author and the page number.
• Quotations longer than four lines must be indented

APA information link
MLA information link

Review of the Book Little Princes

This book started talking about a man named Conor Grennan who is the writer of the book. He started introducing himself and what he wants to do. At the beginning, He was an employee in a company and he collected a lot of money, but he felt bored from his routine and thinking to get a year off of his company to travel around the world. Then, he tried to find an excuse to travel around the world to prove that he is not a selfish. He found that to be a volunteer is the best excuse to make sure that nobody would say that he is a selfish man.

After that, he decided to be a volunteer in orphanage in Nepal. When the volunteers come to Nepal the orphanage do not let them go directly to help children, they give them a time to learn the main things before helping children. After Conor learned some things they let him to go to the orphanage. When he arrived he found that children are very happy with his arrival. Then, he started love kids and wants to help them. After a while with children he found out about their past and why they are here. He found out that children are here because of a child trafficker. From this point he strongly decided to help children to find their families and this is a very hard and dangerous task for him. After three months of his arrival he decided to continue his plan around the world, but he promised them that he will be back after one year.

After one year Conor came back to Nepal to continue helping children to find their families. He helped a lot of kids then he decided to go back to the USA.  After he went to the U.S, the trafficker come back and takes seven children. After that, Conor decided to make a group to collect money to help to find children's families. Then, he went to Nepal to find lost children and return them to their families. Finally, he found children and returns them to their families to live with each other as in the past.

This book is amazing and I would recommend this book to all my friends to read it, because it talks about a very good story. This book is making the people who read the book to like to be a volunteer and to help children. I really enjoyed reading the book and I hope my friends read it.

 

Initial and Later Reasons

Initially, Conor Grennan was bored of his life and his work so he thought about traveling around the world. But, that was a bad idea to think about himself and his family and friends also thought that he is selfish if he thinks in this way. So, he thought that he has to do something good and he came up with an idea which is to be a volunteer. He found that Nepal is the best place to be volunteer at an orphanage. He chose this way to travel and to make his family and friends feel proud of him.

At the beginning, he did not realize that he would stay for a long time in Nepal but, after  while of being with children he felt that children need him to get their rights and it was not easy for him to leave them forever. After that, he decided to continue his plan to Thailand, but he promised children he will come back after one year.  

When comparing Coner’s initial reasons with his later reasons they are different. In his initial reasons he was just want to be  a volunteer to make his family and friends feel proud of him. But, in his later reasons after  while of being with children he felt that he cannot leave them, because of the questions that children asked him and he felt he has another family in the little princes orphanage.

Evaluation of " Who am I"

The three top posts are 1-Peterson Victoria (10) 2- Doege Brandon (10) 3- Ruud Justin (10)

Here is the spreadsheet evaluation

All of them did well with no errors.