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How do geese know which goose to follow?
Click here for the answer.
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Counterintuitive Questions
Can we Democratize Water? Will we be Allowed to?
Update: Government intervention in collecting rainwater?
States where it’s illegal to collect rainwater
A book about Water privatization: Water Wars by Vandana Shiva
PBS Documentary Klamath River Water War
Book: Manual for Water Harvesting
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Housekeeping
The My Hypothesis Assignment.
Just to be clear, Replies to the My Hypothesis page do not complete the assignment. You need to publish your own post to the My Hypothesis category where they can be read and assessed and where you can revise them in response to Professor interference.
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In-Text Citation Workshop
First, let’s take a quick look at some of your Replies to the In-Text Citation page.
Link to a breakdown of some common punctuation and grammar errors made in the recent Citation Exercise . . . PLUS, an invitation to correct yours before you receive feedback.
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New Task
Research Proposal+5 Sources
DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT TUE OCT 01
—This is the followup to your Hypothesis Conference and the first step toward processing your academic sources into a Bibliography.
—This post will eventually be re-titled as your Annotated Bibliography and become part of your Portfolio.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Class Notes 9.25.24
Going over example hypotheses
We go over two examples that show what a hypothesis should look like. While essential grammar mistakes are noted, having proper attention to issues with your hypothesis as a statement is more important. A hypothesis should include a claim with follow-up questions that you can properly research to test this claim.
In text citation
Going over simple mistakes, titling a book in your response with italics, quotation marks should always be used for the original writers words.
Research Proposal Sources
Submitted early by accident,
Research Proposal+5
Discusses what the class will be doing post individual hypothesis conference between students and professor. Each reference will have a short synopsis of its relevance and defense to our personal hypotheses.
Class Notes-
Hypothesis Reviewing
In-text Citation
5 Source research proposal: Due Oct 1
Class Notes 9/25/24
The first quote is clever because it does not give out all the information.
Geese form a v because it uses less energy. Following behind a force of energy is a good writing tactic. Follow the one in front.
Democratizing water. Harvesting, interesting word choice. Collecting resources: should we have free reign when researching for writing or should it be democratized?
‘My Hypothesis’ must be posted in its own post so the prof. can interfere
Is your Hypothesis specific? Clear? Verifiable?
Hypothesis should not be a question, it should be hypothetical.
Relocation of words can change the meaning of a sentence.
Grammar Lesson: Be weary of starting a sentence with ‘by’. By doing x person y accomplishes z. Be careful that pronouns do not refer to nothing.
A good hypothesis could lead to better research and more coherent writing
We don’t have to parenthetically name the author in APA, he is already called out. Paraphrasing is effective for citation
Be careful not to be redundant
You can include a quote in the grammar of your own sentence. In this situation the citation does not need to be capitalized
Grammar Lesson: In English double quotes are always used except if quoting something inside a quote
New Task: Pulling in data from sources with a small bit of commentary about each source
Class Notes – Softball1321
Counterintuitive Questions: “Can we democratize water?
”Harvesting” rain water is illegal is some states.
When making a hypothesis, make sure you do not make it sound like a question, because then it would not be considered a hypothesis.
Watch using the word “by” as a sentence starter.
Eliminate pronouns that have no value or make no sense in a writing.
The correct punctuation for an article is quotes, the correct punctuation for a title of a book and a book review should be italicized.
Never use single quotes in a writing except you are quoting something inside double quotes: “‘x’”.
Only if you pronounce the second ‘s’ in a name or word, is when you should show the second ‘s.’ For example, in the name Davies, you would do Davies,’ not Davies’s.
Make sure hypothesis is specific, arguable, researchable, and verifiable.
Submit proposal with sources by Wed. Oct. 02, before class.
Class notes- figure8clementine
-we are discussing people’s hypothesis in class today and going over them
-you cannot start your hypothesis with the word do, and should instead move it somewhere in the middle of your sentence.
-had more of a discussion on conferences and the last time slots available to those who haven’t yet
-went over another previous assignment and the replies to it
-discussed the proposal+ 5 which is a gathering of your original sources and adding onto them.
-have proposal ready by Wednesday October 2nd
Class Notes: 9/25/24
-The v formation for the geese allow them to be defensive and conserve energy. Simply, they follow who is in front.
-Harvesting- collecting things from food, organs, deer, etc. Harvesting water is legal in NJ and they even offer rain barrel rebate programs. Personally it is wild that some states make it illegal because it is coming down from the sky freely. The government didn’t make the rain. Unless they made a secret machine for it?
-Is it researchable, is it verifiable, can you argue about it? These are the type of questions you must think of in order to have a decent hypothesis.
-Pronouns that go back to nothing must be deleted.
-One can not get away with shortening a title of a book unless the whole title was previously mentioned
-Use double quotes always, unless you have a quote in a quote. With a quote in a quote you should use a single quote.
-Hodges rule states that “only if you would pronounce the second “s,” should you show the second “s.'”
-proposal+5 assignment gives us a place where we can put our sources we found on scholar. We can make a brief purposeful summary of the source we found in order to quickly remember what that source was about. Also included what you intend to use this source for.
Class notes 9/25
“How do geese know which goose to follow?” – They follow the one in front.
It is legal to harvest rainwater in NJ
Went over hypotheses
Went over proper quotations and citations
Discussed next assignment- extending hypothesis and finding resources
Class Notes-phoenixxxx23
-?!Harvesting!? water
-Do not start sentence with “By”
-Make hypothesis sharp and specific, get rid of everything that is not essential for purpose/grammar use
-Double quotation always (in US, single quotation in UK)
-Only if you can pronounce second S, you can use it (Davies’ NOT Davies’s)
-Perephrasing is a great tool for effective citation
-DNA evidence
-Specific. Arguable. Researchable. Verifiable
-Find opponence for your Hypothesis
-Choose a field of study that interests you
Class notes 9/25/24
Today was just an overall revising and understanding how to formulate a hypothesis, and what a hypothesis should be from other authors. Avoiding pronouns such as the word these or it would only make a broader statement than focusing on a specific topic. Even avoid the use of the word do at the beginning of a hypothesis because we are not trying to ask a question, but a statement. Learned of what the Hodges Rule is that if you pronounce the second ‘s’ should you show the second ‘s’. Doing the purposeful summary on the sources can remind, and gives to us a finer understanding whether or not if the sources benefit, and support our hypothesis.
Class notes 9/25
Class Notes: 9/25/24
9/25 notes
Class Notes 9-25-24 – chaoslol
NOTES:
MY HYPOTHESIS
Intext Citation
+5 Sources
-Back ground:
-How I intend to use it:
9/25/24
Hypothesis Review
Informal Citation
Final Notes for Next Steps
Class notes 9/25
Class notes – 9/25/24
How do geese know who to follow? They follow whatever is in front of them.
Collecting rainwater is illegal in some places and is highly controversial in other places. There are many many places where water is a hot commodity. Fresh and usable water is becoming more and more scarce so water may soon be the reason behind a large scale war.
Do not start a sentence with by or with. Describe who is doing whatever the action is. Try not to use the word “it.” It adds confusion and can be replaced by whatever it is supposed to be representing in that sentence.
Be specific. Specificity is always important.
Make sure to use the full name of a person or text the first time you quote it.
Always double quotes. If there is a quote inside of a quote then use single quotes. These alternate forever if there continue to be quotes inside of the quotes.
Describing your sources saves you time when going back to look at them. If there is a description then you can just read that rather than having to reread the whole source.
Class Notes 9/25
Never give out all the information in life. Follow rule number one.
Geese follow the goose in front.
Hypothesis needs to be posted not just to the hypothesis page.
Can water be harvested?
Try to avoid using the word ‘’it’’ in writing.
Avoid starting a sentence with the words ‘‘with’’ and ‘‘by’’
When quoting, always use double quotation marks, if you’re american. Unless you’re quoting someone inside that quotation then you use single quotation marks. If you need to quote inside that quote then go back to double quotation. And so on and so forth.
In text citation is not the author’s name after the quotation marks.
9/25 Class Notes
9/25 Class notes:
Quote- 2) Follow rule number 1
Geese riddle- The one in the front
Counterintuitive ?- You can democratize it, but governments will try to prevent it because it is a necessity for life.
Intext citations- Common issues and how to fix them. Refer to people by full name and title the first time they appear, every other time use last name, quotes do not require capitalization for the first word, ” are used for quotes and ‘ are used for quotes inside a quote.
Hypothesis- Common issues and how to fix them. Make the claim narrower, write it as a claim not as a question, don’t be vague, don’t start a sentence with by, use proper grammar.
Proposal+5- verify it is possible to research, finetune if possible, include background and how I intend to use it.
Assignments:
Proposal+5- 10/1
Class notes:
Class Notes 9/25
Today was once again a very focused class, with heavy emphasis on the hypothesis/thesis project.
The “two rules in life”, and “How do geese know which goose to follow?” kicked off the class, with what I presume were questions everyone immediately distrusted. I could have sworn I heard the thoughts of everyone in class questioning if the immediate answer that came to their mind was predictable answer that would fall right into the hands of a riddle’s “gotcha”.
No traditional riddles here however. No literal robotic interpretations of a phrase or questioning of semantics.
The “two rules of life was a meta joke by only displaying one rule, and the answer to the “geese” was just a simple “they follow the leader”, which I am sure some people already conceived.
Then we reviewed in what states its legal, illegal, or default, as to whether citizens can collect rainwater. And it was asserted that these rules may change in the future. I would rather not dwell on what is to be learned from such a depressing future.
Then the biggest chunck of the class was clarifying where to post the hypothesis, upcoming deadlines to have at least five sources “doggie eared” for use later, and reviewing current posted work that has been posted related to this hypothesis/thesis project.
After examining a few hypotheses for grammar, clarity, and meeting the required intents of being specific, arguable, researchable, and counter intuitive, it was apparent that we will be securitized at many levels and thus we must be very cognizant in our writings at all of these levels.
It was also interesting to see the students who took a swing at the citation exercise and clarifying some the rules/instructions when it comes to citations/references while within the body of your writing. Comma or colon using book titles or scholarly papers, while very precise or interesting, are usually disproportionately wordy for using in the body of a writing. Therefore, it is acceptable to shorten the title to the first word or first idea in the title, only after you have used the title in is fullest form earlier in your paper. As a side amusement, a quote uses double quotations; after that, a quote within a quote uses single quotations. Generally speaking, I would not recommend going further, however if you must quote a quote inside a quote, that most nested quote will alternate back to double quote!
Lastly, reminder, we need to catch up if there is anything to catch up on.
Water will become forever more increasing commodity. We must go back to fix our hypotheses our request feedback. Google scholar you need to start harvesting sources. Making sure that the sources are valuable background and how do you intend to use it
Mongoose Notes – 9/25/2024
Class note Sept 25, 2024
There are two rules in life:
-how do they know what geese follow? they follow the one in front.
-Collecting rainwater from your property is illegal and controversial in some states.
-The hypotheses must be a real publication, not a comment, this way colleagues can see them and comment on them. It should be a claim, not a question. Your hypothesis should be clear, concise, and specific.
-In-text citations: Look for common problems where you can develop hypotheses on how to solve them. Refer to people by their full name and title the first time you name them; use the last name every other time. Don’t use capital letters when writing in quotes they do not require it.
-Find 5 research sources for your affirmation of the hypothesis you chose, it is the basis on which your thesis will begin. This information should help your claim, look for reliable sources so that you can use them efficiently and effectively.
Notes-
Look into Water Wars by Vandana Shiva. How will the future of water go? Will wars over water break out? A commodity in some areas being a valuable resource in others. Good hypothesis- Is the hypothesis specific enough? Is it a topic that can be researched and proven or disproven? For citing in text, there is no need to add parenthetical citations for this class. Find 5 sources to support hypothesis/ to use and break down the sources so there is a purpose for having them
Class notes:
Hypothesis should make a claim not ask questions
choice of words and how things are phrased is really important
when first introducing the source(ex. authors name, title, etc)
after first introducing authors or publishers, its okay to use their last name after to refer to them
don’t capitalize a quote if it isn’t capitalized in the original piece
proper grammar and punctuation is important
Always using double quotes when quoting