The Assignments Link for Week Five Is Now Active.

Last week, you began learning about different kinds of research sources and how to take research notes on your primary source(s).  In the case of your research topic, King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."  You also got to begin working more closely with your group, as you needed to make a group decision among a set of option as to the research topic of your King rhetorical analysis.

This week, you'll begin learning how to read secondary sources, that is, journal articles and to take research notes on them.  You'll also get an overview of the steps one goes through in writing a research paper--one of the major learning goals for ENG 112.  As you read and learn the steps in the research paper writing process, you should gain a better idea of where taking notes on your primary source, creating a working bibliography, and taking notes on secondary sources fits into the process of creating a research, analysis, or term paper.

You also have two exercises to complete with your group.  The first is a basis check in to make sure everyone is doing well and to see what help you can provide to help get anyone lagging up to speed.  As part of this check in, you'll divide up a set of journal articles, making each group member responsible for two articles.  As always when interacting with your group, be supportive and act toward each member as you would a colleague.  You want them to succeed, and it's worth your investing time to help them, because without good colleagues, your own success won't be as great as it could be with their support and help. All this is part of the process of learning to work with a team and learning how the professional world usually functions.

As always write with questions.