Agenda MON SEP 23
Riddle: The Mirror Paradox
Housekeeping
- First Mandatory Conference Reminder and/or Follow-up
- DEFEND YOUR HYPOTHESIS
Counterintuitive Questions
- Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in?
- Can we democratize water?
Mechanics
- Demonstration: Informal In-Text Citation Childhood Obesity (APA Style)
- The Lecture/Demo includes (at the bottom) a Homework Assignment
- Exercise: Informal Citation Exercise (Daniel Flath)
Housekeepin
- Still not Categorizing your Posts?
- They won’t show up in the sidebar under Authors
- They won’t show up under your own Avatar in the sidebar
- They won’t show up in “feed lists” for the task
- It will appear to an objective observer that you’re not posting your assignments at all
- Check now to see that all your Tasks are correctly categorized
In-Class Task
- Click on My Hypothesis in the right-hand sidebar.
- From the resulting feed, choose one or more My Hypothesis posts that intrigue you to want to read further
- Leave feedback for 1-3 of your classmates as Replies to their posts.
- Offer a counterintuitive angle
- Suggest good research material
- Assess the quality of thinking shown in the six steps
- Make any substantive assessment that could help your classmate
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Class Notes 9.23.24
“Why are we citizens in the country we live in?”
Something that struck me when thinking our citizenship in the country we live was you could interpret as “being owned” by that government or country through a choice that wasn’t really our own, depending on the country. Contrary to the US, if you’re born in France or Ireland for example you are not automatically a citizen.
“Can we democratize water?”
Water is seen something that’s seen as a human right, every person deserves it. But it seems unusual to my personal perspective that this basic right is so governed that as we discussed, we can make it illegal in certain places to collect your own rainwater.
Discussing the mechanics of citation.
If we wanted to add or remove certain words when quoting text we should use “…” known as ellipsis, this isn’t something I knew. But it’s something worth noting only to use this in a way to get a gist of a longer text, not to altar what the authors intention of message to the audience is. Title of an article doesn’t receive italics for reference, it’s supposed to receive quotation marks.
Class Notes – Softball1321
Riddle: The Mirror Paradox
Class Notes – phoenixxxx23– 09/23/2024
-a mirror flips front-to-back not left-to-right
-we read our shirt in the mirror as people see it in real life
-The wars would not exist, if territory did not mean anything and you could live anywhere you want without restrictions
-water will be the next potential war
-the title of the article gets quotes
-the title of the publication/journal gets italics
-New York Times uses italics because it’s a publication
-pure paraphrase does not need quotation marks
-we use APA format for our research paper
-APA 7 style
-You can turn 100 words in the sentence or two
Class Notes: 9/23/24
-Holding the door open is useless because it causes un-wanted haste just to accommodate someone’s “politeness”
-Wikipedia is the best thing?? Prof David believes it is one of the best things in the world. We can’t use it as a source, but if we look at an article on there we can go to their references below and quote it from there.
-Grammar is a description of norms, meaning it just comes from how people talk
-Mirror Paradox: When looking in the mirror we believe it flips things left to right. Why? it actually doesn’t… it flips front to back. With Prof going over this riddle I have realized that a mirror flips images/things as if it was looking at someone from behind. This incudes letters, symbols, etc.
Counterintuitive Questions:
-Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in? No one knows why this is the case for everyone. Prof David states there would be no wars if everyone were able to live where they wanted. Is the true? What about civil wars
-Can we democratize water? The more scarce water becomes, this will most likely lead to people not being allowed to collect it. Government would want to keep the water to themselves to help rivers/ keep it to spread as little water as they want.
-Citations/quotes: Get quotes right the the source, if you want to cut some words out add ellipses(3 dots) if want to add a word or two so the reader does not have to read a whole other paragraph we can add brackets
-Title of an article gets quote, title of a publication gets italics; ex. New York Times. A section will be put in quotation marks, but the journal with be in italics
-APA style: We should put “References” at the top of the page, not works cited because that is for MLA. Prof David likes when the link is involved in the citation, so that people can go straight to the source from the page. Use latest APA style.
-Examples of APA style citations could be (Publisher and Title, plus quote), (Publisher plus quote), (Name of Journal, plus paraphrase), Name of Journal, Title of Article, plus paraphrase), (Author, Name of Journal, plus paraphrase)
Notes 9/23 – unicorn45678
*The most top 5 world inventions are medicine
The mirror paradox
Counterintuitive Questions
-quotes that are quoted in articles, mean that they are directly from the textRe
References ex: “Childhood Obesity Causes and Consequences.” (2016, December 15). Retrieved April 16, 2018.
Ex 2: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, “sugary drinks consist of fruit drinks, soda, energy drinks, sport drinks, and sweetened waters
*you can learn a lot from AI because it can come up with claims without even gathering information for what your reading
09/23/24
What happened:
What I Got:
Class Notes Takeaway – 9/23/24
So many question that were presented that never occurred to me in the slightest bit such as why people hold the door for the other person out of politeness or the mirror paradox of why it reflects that way. The act of politeness towards another person by just simply holding the door could be a nuisance to both parties because if one person holds the door for the other person and the other person is further away from the door then the one who is holding the door is wasting time waiting for that person to approach the door. On the other hand, if the walker is walking at their leisure pace and saw someone holding the door for them then the walker would have to pick up the pace so the person holding the door doesn’t have to wait for that walker to come which is a nuisances in the end.
The mirror paradox session also flew above my head because of the question of why does the mirror would reflect from left to right, but not up or down? The answer was that it reflects what’s in front of the it. It was an illusion depending on where we look at where we misjudged the difference between where is the right or left.
We were told to never use Wikipedia because of the lack of credibility, but by looking at the reference pages for that topic can help us expand our sources to support our hypothesis.
For a quote to be a quote from the source is that you can’t delete or add words from the quote because it is not word to word from the author or source of the article. I understand how to appropriately use italics, and quotation marks in essays where the title of the publication gets italics while the title of the article gets quotation marks.
The mirror paradox: A mirror literally reflects back to us what we look like. However, we see ourselves in the mirror differently than how we are seen in person by another. It does not flip our image but gives us a view of ourselves right back to us, reflecting us.
Counterintuitive Questions: We are citizens of a country we are born in because we were born in that territory. However this does not go for every country. Some countries declare that just because you are born there you are not automatically a citizen contrary to the US. It is a tricky question and nobody really knows the answer.
Water is a necessity, if water was to become an issue to get then we would not be allowed to collect water. Fresh water is increasingly scarce and we would slowly not be allowed to collect our own water. War could possibly even occur if we have an intense scarcity of fresh water.
Class Notes 9/23
Purposeful Summary
Counterintuitive Questions
Citation Mechanics
Class Notes 9/23
Counter Intuitive Questions
Class Notes 9/23/24 – student12121
Common knowledge can often lead to mistakes. If something is accepted as common knowledge some can believe it to be above analysis. If everyone believes something true it might get by with actually being false because no one looks carefully at the knowledge.
AI is good at answering questions that already have a lot of public opinions. If it can draw from these it does a great job. The flip side of this is that it has lots of trouble formulating a unique opinion without a wide variety of opinions generated by real people.
Does anyone truly own anything? How does one define where ownership starts and ends? These can be applied to property but also throughout life.
APA citations only in this class.
Class notes 9/23
Class Notes 9/23/24
9/23 class notes:
Purposeful Summary – A balancing act of information and putting forth the author’s opinion of the information.
Counterintuitive ? 1- We are citizens because most likely that is where we are going to grow up and live there.
Counterintuitive ? 2- We should ensure everyone gets the water they need.
Citations- Learned about correctly citing things. Quotes do not require capital letters at the beginning of them, periods are always inside the quotation marks
Assignments:
Purposeful Summary – 9/24
In text APA citation response- 9/24
In class notes 9/23- iloveme5
Class Notes-9/23
-Mirrors do not flip things from left to right but from front to back
-Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in? We now are part of the territory.
-Can we democratize water? You are not allowed to collect rain water that falls on your property in many states and this is because fresh rain water is more rare then we believe and could one day start a war for
-Never a case where comma or period end outside the quotation mark
-not every beginning to a quote needs to be capitalized
-A colon is like an equal sign, everything on either side of it must be the same
-Learning different citations and how to write them is important
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Class Notes:
9/23/24 Notes
Grammar is descriptive
Mirror don’t flip images they reflect them
Can we democratize water? Is the water that falls onto the land we own ours to keep?
In-text citation
Use (…) to indicate you have left something out
By using the terms “sugary drinks” instead of just “soda” you can broaden the categories to “fruit drinks, soda, energy drinks, sports drinks, and sweetened waters.”
Italicize titles when using them- because it’s the publication
Use quotation marks for the “article”
Example: “Advice for Patients” section of the journal Nutrients.
References are in MLA format title References, center it and list references below.
Mirror Reply
Yardie
I learned that mirrors don’t flip images, they mirror them, reflecting the images straight back.
Mirror Flip front to back.
Citizens of the country you were born in just to be given a title like I’m from here.
Water is given the value we the people give it. Title gets italics, the publication gets put in (” “).
Class notes 9/23
Mirrors flip front to back not side to side.
Why are we automatically a citizen of where we are born. Would wars exist is there were no borders?
Water could become less available and eventually become regulated by the government.
Covered correct use of citations.
Use quotation marks for the title of an article.
9/23/24 – figure8clementine
class notes
-the importance of wikipedia
-Mirror paradox: Mirrors don’t reflect things up and down or left-to-right, but reflect them front to back.
-Why do we hold doors open for people out of politeness when in reality, you’re ignore the other persons intentions to satisfy your own selfish needs to be polite? At intersections, why do some people let every other car go, despite being there first and despite the pandemonium letting everyone else go can cause.
-Why is someone who’s born in America automatically an American citizen, but in other places this wouldn’t be the case? Why do we as people, make it so that you can’t just live anywhere you want just because you want to?
-Should rainwater that falls on someones property be legally theirs? Some places it’s illegal to collect that rainwater due to the scarcity of it in that area. Does it become that person’s obligation to contribute the water to the community, regardless of the fact that it fell on their property and can be argued as being rightfully theirs?
-Quotes should be used on a title that you’re fully naming and not changing anything about, italics should be used when you shorten a title but are still referencing it.
Class notes:
Mirror riddle: you see front to back, as if you’re looking behind yourself. “Common knowledge” can be somewhat unreliable.
Purposeful summaries– show differences as to why the article is counterintuitive.
Logical intro-then give more detail-more detail- balance both extremes.
Counterintuitive Questions:
Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in- Can’t always be true. Just because you have a baby in Italy doesn’t mean it’s an Italian baby. There are prospects that need to be followed in order to ensure populations throughout the world. Boundaries are needed to keep us humans contained and organized.
Can we democratize water?- Fresh water is scarce=more valuable, and could fight wars over it.
Important to ask these questions directed towards your hypothesis to dig deeper.
Informal Citation– not every quote needs to be capitalized, nor a comma before the claim
Never an expectation, commas go inside quotation marks. Always, always, always. : is kinda an = sign. Whatever is before is the same as whatever is after.
Notes – 9/23/2024
What was covered:
What I learned:
Class notes:
-Mirror riddle paradox: The image is reflected in a symmetry that is opposite to what we recognize in the real world.
-Defend your hypothesis, and make an appointment.
-The image is reflected in a symmetry that is opposite to what we recognize in the real world.
-the next big war could be over water.
-use 3 points to indicate that something in the reading was summarized.
-The use of italics indicates that it is the title of the topic.
-The articles used in writing should be placed on the reference page
-Use APA style for reference pages.
_use different citation styles
Today was surprisingly less wide across topics and more deep into one topic.
More riddles to start the day with, this time about mirror images and flipping. I have my guard up as usual when it comes to riddles for those gotcha moments. The answer to this one was ok. I think the answer of “front to back” to a good way to explain mirrors.
Why are we citizens of the country we are born in? Because the U.S. says so. I would go further and guess we are resources for our country, and what better way to get resources than to simply claim someone? “You there, hop on this hamster wheel and make my economy go around till I need you in a war.” is a somewhat irreverent way to look at things, but has a bit of truth to it. In a greater context the government does provide to make the people on its land “happy”; like transportation, firefighters, police, and politicians that can invent rules that our neighbors cannot be having loud outdoor parties keeping me up at night to 4am in the morning.
Can we democratize water? Can we vote on what to do with water? Or do you mean to own water? Like lakes and oceans maybe, and if there wasn’t any crime. It only takes one person to ruin it for everyone else and disobey the strategy voted upon. If water falls in your yard, is it yours? Well, do you have city water or well water? I believe anyone could collect rainfall without the police taking interest in you. The exception to this being in areas of drought. Then again if there is an AI uprising or something equally depressing, who will stop you? Might as well enjoy while you can.
The focus of this class was largely a Q&A on understanding how to express some of the more meta elements outside of a paper in an APA style paper. Specifically, a research or thesis paper. Stuff that someone would not have to worry about if they were writing the next Harry Potter novel for example.
The title of an article you are referencing gets quotes. (The author or company is just written normally.)
The publication (think science journal) gets italics (Journal of public health dentistry).
A section of a newspaper sections “sports” “Advice for patients” are put in quotes.
If you want to emphasize something you can use italics. (fruit flavored drinks such as Kool aid)
We are using APA style for our thesis. The references page must be in APA format
It is preferred if the articles are linked in our references via hyperlinking the name to be clickable.
There seems to be many situations, and it is important to know what to do in each situation depending on if we are paraphrasing, quoting, using journal names, or the title of article. I will probably need to spend three afternoons on the APA website.
NOTES 9/23
9/23-
Notes-
Go to the bottom of a wikipedia page for valuable sources for research. In order to become a well-rounded person, you must continue to question everything and try to find another way to think about something. When making an addition to a quote, you can add with either brackets or add the word in, in the case that the author has implied intention that he meant or later expanded on this idea. When writing, italicizing can be used as a method of grouping. Meaning you italicize the main group name and follow it with members within that group. Remember to use APA and not MLA.
I realize I never posted my notes
Notes: September 23, 9:30 am Class
First paragraphs can generally put the main idea together of what the reader needs to know, without too many excess details.
AI, is a tool. To utilize and help guide your writing. However it is a dangerous tool, it can trap students and, could fall under plagirism.
Counterintuitive questions can be figured out if you look really hard at a hypothesis.
When quoting someone, the way you phrase the quote, with commas, conjunctions, etc, change how someone can perceive what you’re saying because it sounds different.
Commas and periods ALWAYS! (no exceptions) go inside the quotation marks.
Except when NEVER!!
Quick link to the citations .(fourth citation is rare)
Appositives – defining a noun and descriptor as equivalent
Bingle, the trader,
Can identify the trader as either “the trader”, or “Bingle”
Class notes:
the opening paragraph can really tell the reader what its going to be about but it shouldn’t bore the reader
don’t include unnecessary detail
we reviewed how to properly cite our sources:
always put the punctuation inside of the quotation marks
remember to use APA not MLA
The publication (ex.science journal) gets italics (ex.Journal of public health dentistry)
Class notes
the first paragraph should tell people the main idea without giving a bunch of extra details
remember to use APA not MLA
we reviewed how to quote and cite our sources properly (ex. always put the punctuation inside of the quotation marks)
Always italicize the name or publication
A section of a newspaper sections are put in quotes