Day 20 & 21: CARS Introductions and Literature Reviews

You will be able to:

-Understand the three moves in the CARS model (establishing a research territory, establishing a niche, and occupying that niche)
-Recognize these three moves in academic writing
-Apply these moves in your own academic writing (specifically, their research paper introductions and literature reviews)
-Understand what a literature review is
-Understand that literature reviews vary among different fields and types of papers
-Identify the major elements in a literature review

CARS Introductions

Concept Overview
Take a look at the image below.


If you are unfamiliar with the word niche, you can find its definition HERE.

After completing steps 1-3, try to come up with an explanation of how this diagram can be applied to an introduction of a research paper.

Explanation
We will explore this topic in more depth with THIS POWERPOINT. Slides 3 and 4 contain the most important information for developing an introduction that follows the CARS model.

Identifying CARS Parts
After learning the specifics of the CARS model, apply what you've learned to THIS ARTICLE. Read only the introduction. In your groups try to identify the three parts of the CARS model in this introduction. Afterward, explain how each part of the CARS model is (or is not) related to the introduction.

Practice CARS
You will now work individually. Develop your own outline for an introduction that follows the CARS model. Create one sentence that relates to each part of the CARS model. I recommend that you develop an outline for your actual research paper, but you will not be limited to that. Save the file in your Dropbox.

Some of you will be asked to share your outline with the class. You will then come to the front of the room and open your file on the projection screen and mix the order of your sentences. The audience will then have to successfully organize the parts of the outline.

Literature Reviews

Good News: If you follow the CARS model for research paper introductions, you will not be required to write an introduction to your literature review. Simply include the purpose for presenting your chosen type of literature review (see Elements of Literature Reviews section for more details on the purpose).
Bad News: You cannot simply copy and paste your annotated bibliography for your literature review.

Types of Literature Reviews
Look at these SAMPLE LITERATURE REVIEWS. They are on the same topic and focus on the same niche, but they are written in two different styles--descriptive and critical. Try to first identify which style each sample follows. Then try to identify the topic and the niche of the literature reviews.

Selecting a Literature Review Style

Take a few minutes to read through the following possibilities, decide which literature review you will write for your final research paper.

-If you have a research question to answer, you may choose to write a critical style literature review where you explain the unclear or uncertain areas surrounding your niche that you hope to resolve within the paper.

-If you are writing a problems-solutions research paper, you may choose to write a descriptive style literature review that outlines the problem and past attempts at solutions.

-If you are writing an argumentative research paper, you may choose to write a descriptive style literature review that provides a background to the debate surrounding your niche.

Three Essential Elements of a Literature Reviews for ESL 501
1) A literature review should be centered around the niche. You will want to ensure that you keep the focus on how the sources are related to the area you are researching. This is related to the explanation of relevance section in your annotated bibliography.

2) A literature review should NOT be a delimited summary of each of your sources. Although, you may include some summary information to illustrate how sources presented in the literature review are related to your niche. It should, however, show the interaction among the sources you have researched--how they support each other, how they disagree with each other, or how they are related to each other.

3) A literature review should support your reason and purpose for researching this niche throughout the body of the literature review and explicitly summarize and state the reasoning in the conclusion section of the literature review.

Developing a Literature Review
Next, we will walk through the development of a literature review together. You can follow along on THIS POWERPOINT.

Afterward:

-Identify the topic of the paper, the niche, and a possible thesis statement.

-Review the information provided by the sources. Identify whether the information provided by the sources agrees or disagrees with the information provided by the other sources.

-Identify which elements in the conclusion are present in the Essential elements of Literature Reviews section.

Sources on Literature Reviews
LITERATURE REVIEW SOURCE 1
LITERATURE REVIEW SOURCE 2
LITERATURE REVIEW SOURCE 3

Day 19: Using Ref-Works

On Tuesday, March 27th class will meet in the ACES library in room 509.

You will work on putting your sources into entry format for a bibliography using Ref-Works.

In the library you will have time to work with Ref-Works and add bibliography entries to your annotated bibliography.

Day 18: Working on the Annotated Bibliography

You will be able to:
-practice writing annotated bibliographies
-work on your annotated bibliographies

In class you will actually have the opportunity to work on your annotated bibliographies.

We will begin by briefly reviewing the four parts of annotated bibliographies.

As a class we will address any concerns you have about finding sources/library day/annotated bibliographies.

You will then have the remainder of class to work on finding sources for your final research paper and writing your annotated bibliography.

Homework 3: Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography will be directly related to your final research paper.

[3/13/12] You will need to gather 4-6 sources (no fewer than 4 and no more than 6!) during the library instruction day.

[3/15/12] The following class period, you will actually have the opportunity to work on creating the annotated bibliography in class.

[3/27/12] You will meet in the library for a tutorial on Refworks. Here you will put your sources for your final research paper into an entry in a bibliography.

I highly recommend that you have the annotated bibliography completed before this library session so all you have to do for your homework is to copy and paste the entries into the annotated bibliography.

Remember: Your annotated bibliography should have citation first, 3-4 sentence summary of source, 3-4 sentence explanation of relevance to topic of research, 2-3 sentence reliability analysis.

Note: Since you need a minimum of four sources for your final research paper, I will only require that you write four annotated bibliographies--even if you have five or six sources.

You will also need to make sure that your annotated bibliography follows the same formatting guidelines as required by your citation style.

Due
Tuesday, March 27th 2012

File Name
annotated_Firstname_Lastname_1.doc

Day 17: Library Day 1

We will be in the library day. You will need to find 4-6 sources for your final research paper during this class period. Eventually you will need to write an annotated bibliography for these sources. You may not have fewer sources than 4 and you may not have more sources than 6.

Day 16: The Annotated Bibliography

I brought up the University of Illinois admissions scandal to the N1 section. I found the background information about the scandal HERE on Wikipedia.

**Remember that Tuesday we will be in ACES 509 during class. Here is a MAP. You must have a final research paper topic by that time. You can choose to write a problem-solution research paper or you can choose to write an argumentative research paper.**

You can follow along with today's lesson on annotated bibliographies with THIS POWERPOINT.

You will then have an opportunity to work in groups and evaluate the annotated bibliographies in THIS HANDOUT.

You will then have an opportunity to write an annotated bibliography in your groups. Open THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY PRACTICE HANDOUT. Your group will be assigned one of the articles to read and prepare an annotated bibliography for that handout. You will then present your annotated bibliography to the class.

Day 14 and 15

We fell a bit behind following our schedule. Some lessons took longer than one day and so we had a catch up day to get back on track. On day 16 (3/8/2012), we will start studying annotated bibliographies.

Day 13: PIE Structure

You will be able to:

-Identify three elements of a paragraph (point, illustration, explanation)
-Evaluate a paragraph for its use of these elements
-Use these elements to construct an argument

Before we begin today's lesson, you will take a DIAGNOSTIC EXAM.

Afterward, we will review the answers to find out what you are struggling with.



We will begin learning PIE structure today. You can follow along with today's lesson in THIS POWERPOINT.

First, consider which are good points and which are bad points. Be able to explain why some are good and others are not.

Afterward, you will work on actually identifying the structure of THESE PARAGRAPHS.