Agenda WED SEP 18
Housekeeping
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Web Skills: Google Scholar
Brief demo of the value and power of Google Scholar for BOTH finding sources to explore your Hypothesis AND to help you create your Hypothesis in the first place.
That Scotch Bottle is Back
Feedback Please
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My Class Notes, A Model
I’ve mocked up my own version of Class Notes for Monday’s class, MON SEP 16, for anyone interested in how I would have kept notes that day if we had covered the entire Counterintuitive Thinking lecture in class.
The Deadlines Menu
Riddle
- First, let’s define bi-partisan
- adjective. involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties
that usually oppose each other’s policies. - Recent usage:
- “Financial deregulation and mass incarceration became matters of
bi-partisan agreement.”— Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
- “Financial deregulation and mass incarceration became matters of
- adjective. involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties
Lecture/Demo: Purposeful Summary
Follow the link to an explanation of the difference between Quotation, Paraphrase, and the much more useful “Purposeful Summary,” the only method endorsed by this course of incorporating large amounts of information from outside sources.
Research Help
Classwork
- Summaries Are Arguments
- Lecture/Demonstration: Purposeful Summary
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Class Notes – Softball1321
Learning about the importance of Google Scholar for finding reference sources.
Going over the riddle for today and learning the difference between an empty bottle of Scotch and an empty Scotch bottle. This shows to pay close attention to any grammatical errors I can possibly make in hypothesis.
Taking class notes is significant. It shows attendance.
Class notes are purposeful summaries.
There is no such thing as a bi-partisan legislator, but there is such thing is bi-partisan group legislators.
Going over the purposeful summary task: due next Tuesday, 11:59pm.
Counterintuitive thinking.
Class Notes- phoenixxxx23
-Use google scholar for search:
-be really specific, use the roots of the words not their forms building–build
-use “” and – to make search more specific
-The references list for your favorite source has its own references
-Purposeful summary is the key to thoughtful information processing
-Purposeful summary does not include citation, it includes your view on these words
-You have to be logical not promoting your favorite argument but being objective and reasonable
–YOU are the AUTHOR
-“Talk about the orange juice extract, not the packaging, production date etc; discuss the flavor” by Elizaveta
Grammar can make a different statement true, but not pass your message. Like a track star passing the baton to the wrong person on a different path. Finding better sources using key words and removing word. Addressing the facts as if it were the news. What do you want to make your viewer understand.
Class Notes: 9/18
-Always be proud of your ideas, not arrogant.
-It will be way better to do a conference when you don’t know anything
-Google Scholar looks for scholarly articles. It may provide journals you need to pay for, but no marketing ads. Adding quotes will narrow results. Adding negative signs with a word will take all articles out with said word.
-the Campbell library gives you few articles, and it may be subscribed to a journal you need
-References list for your favorite source is now your favorite sources; in other words use the articles references, this will lead to more sources and articles.
-Nuance means there is small difference of meaning
-Taking good class notes while absent will allow you to be marked as present; it will give you credit.
-In order to put a source to use, don’t just quote everything. Take key points. Out of an 8,000 word article, you should only use around 100 words.
-Discussion on Polio. When one does not see something happening in real time, they believe it is not important. In reality it is always important and why we should take action before anything bad happens.
-Bi-partisan Legislators Riddle: This brings back to nuance. The way this is phrased, it is not true and can not happen. If it said “a bi-partisan group of legislators”, then yes this can happen.
-It does not matter what you believe. As long as you sound logical and are able to persuade, you can make a summary. You can make an argument.
-For Purposeful Summaries assignment, ignore the author because you are the author. Start with “It seems counterintuitive that…”
-3 parent article: Describes a situation that promotes a kind of sympathy for the critics. This article was able to provide a small summary with a purpose. It did not include the author or title, but instead briefly summarizes and adds emotion. This is about what people should do for the purposeful summaries assignment.
-Include in the summary what you think is the important takeaway for you. Everyone has their own ideas, so use what you want in the summary to bring your point across.
Class Notes 9.18.24
It was said its unlikely to choose “what?” from your first google article search.
Why good class notes are important
Why is there no group of bi-partisan legislators?
The difference between a purposeful and non-purposeful summary.
9/18/24
What Happened:
What I got:
What I Still Have Questions About:
9/18/2024
There is no such thing as a group of bi-partisan legislators because one person can’t belong to both party’s.
(The way words are arranged changes what you are saying)
9/18
Persuasion is important and telling the truth in the story
Mongoose! Notes – 9/18/24
Discussed
Learned
Class notes 9/18- iloveme5
Notes 9/18:
Notes
Google Scholar
Scotch bottle riddle
Feedback please
Good notes
Riddle
Purposeful Summaries
9/18 Notes:
Google Scholar:
Scotch:
Feedback Please
Notes on Notes:
Bipartisan Legislators:
Class Notes 9-18-24 – chaoslol
Class notes 9/18
Notes 9/18/14
Class Notes- 9/18
-When having ideas always be proud of them even if they’re ridiculous
-Add avatar and make appointment to discuss hypothesis
-When using Google Scholar, if you are not subscribed to a site type it into the Rowan Library because if they are subscribed to that site so are we as students
-If you find gold on Google Scholar when looking for paper continuing to look at the authors sources that they used
-Effective writing is best when the reader works for it the right way and the right amount
-Must be persuasive in writing so reader won’t immediately discredit your opinion
-A scotch bottle is only considered a bottle of scotch when scotch is in the bottle. Without the scotch in the bottle it is no longer a bottle of scotch and now just an empty bottle
-When writing notes it is necessary that they get to the heart of the topics that are discussed and writing one or two sentences each topic can be sufficient
-Polio has broken out in Gaza once again
-There is no such thing as a group of bi-partisan legislators because legislators are not able to be in both parties they can be partisan but not bi-partisan
-Purposeful Summary must be made persuasive and we must make a good case for it
-Begin with “It seems counterintuitive that…”
Class notes 9/18:
Quote- Don’t get carried away with your ideas
Rat story- Learned about how to change perceptions with suggestions and framing questions in a certain way.
Google Scholar- It is a good place to start research, we went over how to use it efficiently by using “” and -.
Empty bottle of Scotch- uses it to show how to convince someone of the argument you are making by implying things.
Class notes- take notes on useful stuff that can help me later.
Riddle bi-partisan legislators – This is not possible because you cannot be part of two different partisan groups at the same time.
Purposeful summary- Make your summary persuasive and interesting to convince people of your viewpoint of the article.
Assignments-
Purposeful summary by 9/24
Conference by 9/25
What happened
what I learned
Class notes:
From what I got was that I never actually heard about google scholar for my entire life until todays lecture. I’m glad that I don’t have to stress out over what sources I need to find to support my claims. Another thing was that I may have or not encounter articles that is paywalled until now, but it was nice to know that there are some articles which I can use the Rowan library to help me gain access to those sources. The use of word choices to surf the google scholar gave me a brief understanding of what it means narrow it down to a specific article by using quotation marks, and minus signs in front of words that I don’t want. The biggest tip I got was that if an article have references pages then I should definitely check them out to see if those references articles would actually be part of my sources to support my claims.
I was finally be able to get the answer I wanted to figure out what that picture was in the counterintuitive website from the very beginning about polio disease.
I got the gist of why a person can’t be a bi-partisan legislator whereas they can be a bi-partisan group of legislator because the meaning of a bi-partisan legislator is where a person is agreeing on both side of the parties that are opposing each other. A person can’t describe themselves as a bi-partisan legislator but if there more than one person in a group of legislator that are from different parties then that’s when it can be called a group of bi-partisans.
To not summarized the article, but to get the main idea, and giving out important details than wasted words to give to the people who don’t know about that certain article. It is a way to interpret than to summarized an article to show purposeful meaning, and getting to the main point.
9/18/24
Class notes – Figure8clementine
Google scholar
Empty Scotch bottle vs Empty bottle of Scotch
Why is there no such thing as a group of bi-partisan legislators
Class Notes
*ex: Red and blue together + bi- partisan legislators = no
Red and blue group + bi-partisan group = yes
*To maintain your health you have to drink 2 liters of water
Purposeful summary tasks
Today we read a quote by myfavorteprofessordavidbdale: “Be proud of your work but not arrogant.” It was emphasized that we should be discreetly proud of our work and assume by the default we are ridiculous. However, is it not thought provoking to ask yourself why is this the paradigm being set up? Of course, I already know I am absolutely ridiculous, as I regularly do and write things others do not. Pride with out fanfare? Sure. But still, why? The answer I think, is to prime us for the gut punch called criticism; might I add on a website public enough to receive from many directions. Critical thinking demands much in the resources of nuance and perspective. There conceivably could be criticisms of vastly different views or that plunge deeper into topics. Criticism should be met with humility.
Today we looked at Google Scholar. Lovely offspring of Google, which enables a user to filter the firehose of information that is the internet to only scholarly sources. Though a potential downside of this kind of information is that it is often behind a subscription paywall. This, as we have been informed, can be remedied in the library. Not just any library. Colleges often have subscriptions to academic to the resources we are finding in Google Scholar. I plan to secure the urls of interest to my hypothesis and then, use the college library go down the rabbit holes.
Do not only look at the abstract, read the actually read the paper, is up next. We were instructed to get into the “heart of a paper”, or “body” as its officially called. But “heart” as is more specific implies getting to the meaning of a matter. A meaning which may be absolutely separate for our interests from the abstract or executive summaries that will be presented to us at the beginning of these scholarly articles.
Linking with the paragraph from above, we were instructed that we should not quote from the abstract but should instead quote from the body of the paper. I trust I will better understand this practice one I get into the trenches. My experience of scholarly papers so far usually starts with a somewhat understandable abstract, then goes into to statistical jargon and variables that are meaningless without any meaningful context in which to orient them. Not to mention the ones I have come across are usually so dry of a read. Time will tell how this will unfold.
Use the reference list of articles and papers you like. What a great tip! I understood this immediately as I do this often with news articles. Another way of saying, I find some new articles lacking in the information I actually want often due to oversimplification of a study, obscuration of contextual middle-ish events that led up to the headline, or sometimes outright omission of information! The cure is sometimes just using all the hyperlinks relating to the article for fuller pictures of a story to parse though. After reflecting briefly, perhaps our professor has encountered the same inconveniences and thus why he is emphasizing that we should scour the body of a paper to unravel its mysteries.
Revisiting the scotch riddle, now with hidden text! I have not seen this technique used in a while. Using white text on against a white background is a popular practice on not popular websites. The popular websites like X allow for text to be hidden by an overlay that says “spoilers”. When reading the hidden text I noticed 6 sentences, each a slightly different variation of the phrase “She hit me with an empty scotch bottle.” Within THIS CONTEXT, I immediately grasped the distinction between “empty bottle of scotch” and “bottle of empty scotch” and all the other variations that was not readily apparent by simply reading “scotch bottle” in a vacuum. I am well accustomed to analyzing the precision in words in a sentence and exercise regularly saying things a precise and unambiguous way. It is strange and intriguing to me as to why the concept was so much more palatable, that I griped it at an instinctual level with the fast-think part of my brain upon seeing 6 sentences lined up with slightly different variations.
How to use Feedback. Easy, post something in Feeback. The instructor will respond, and then move it to elsewhere. You may post in Feedback as many times as you like (I bet no one has tested this as a prank), and he will respond back to each one each time.
Why are class notes important? The simple answer is that they are for attendance. Though secretly I think it’s also for engagement. What better way to learn materials than to engage with them?!
We must take potentially 8,000 words and condense them into 3,000 words in our own paper. That is to say the academic papers we will be reading will be longer than our own paper in all likelihood. The skill that we must exercise is to distil the academic paper for our own use. To “betray” it into our own language while also never lying.
It is important to write notes purposefully. This is just as I mentioned earlier in “getting to the heart” of the matter we are researching. I do not need to rehash here what has already been elaborated earlier.
The banner and wallpaper of this blog is of a child with a drip, presumably medicine, but in hindsight could be some kind of vaccination, going into his mouth. Either way it apparently has to do with the fight against polio. Polio has almost been eliminated like smallpox, but after billions of dollars and numerous smarter people than I, it has never fully gone away due to people not vaccinated. In some cases it is due to upheaval and chaos forcing people into conditions where such an unusual disease is less unusual. In other events it is due to questing, doubt, or outright unwillingness to get vaccinated. The notorious “Anti Vaxers” have become more prominent in recent years as have their various efforts. Might I also add there is finical incentive for some in the Veen Diagram of Anti Vaxer and Supplement seller.
The riddle of the day: You cannot have a bipartisan legislator. This is because such a circumstance would mean that you have one person who is a member of two separate parties. In the U.S. politics we have a two-party system. You are a member of team read or team blue. It should be noted however that you can pass bipartisan legislation or have a situation involving a bipartisan committee. Reflecting further, one might be able to make the argument that bipartisan legislator could exist, borrowing from definition of a double agent or double crosser like (un)seen in spy-craft. Could you imagine if someone in our politics was not just a member of his party but also that of a foreign government too?! Hey, two parties are all you need to check off both of the boxes for “bi” in bipartisan.
Headline: Don’t just say in your paper you need sleep and water and food to be healthy, tell me why. If you tell me that sleep is overrated and we are getting too much of it, and you have my attention. I think what he is looking for are that our final thesis is strange, alien, or against the grain of our social conventions. You could almost say something that is…”Counter Intuitive”!
This just in: I am looking for counter intuitive thinking here in these papers. Yea, this just spells out what I mention above and takes away my cheesy thunder. No need to retread this water.
On summaries, it is not just a summery but purposeful writing that is perhaps the key. I would surmise that by making a conclusion that you would by default be making a meaningful assertion, and therefore making your paper meaningful. We will see if this hypothesis holds true in the future.
You cannot mention the writer or the article itself. Why? I do not know. However, I do not mind. It should not be too hard to write in a passive way. It is ok mention people in the articles. Well, that’s good, so I do not have to utilize a bunch of unwieldly pronouns all over the paper to hide identities. As to why I can mention names if the names are already out of the bag in the article but not the author, I do not know. I don’t care that much either since it won’t get in my way.
Class Notes – 9/18/24
Suggested responses can be hidden in questions. Questions should be open ended and without suggestion if the response is to be truly uninfluenced.
Google scholar is a way better source then regular google. You can use “” to make sure a phrase is searched for together rather than independently. If you are trying to exclude results you can use the – symbol to remove all articles with that word in it.
Nearly identical sentences can be very different in meaning and can be filled with implications.
Class notes: