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**Notes from Wednesday May 5: **
[|Taking Notes.ppt] [|NoodleTools-for-Students-notes.html]

 =**Notes from Tuesday, May 4: **= ==[|Using-Ebsco’s-Database.html] and [|Citing-a-Database-Article.html]==

==This page will contain your research questions, interesting links to interactive sites you've found, imbedded video, and/or anything else you can think of. You will also post your Noodle Tools ([|Example Noodles Notecards.pdf]) notecards as an uploaded file here.==


 * 1) When in your research paper's list on NoodleTools, click on notecard at the top of the page.
 * 2) Click on "new notecard" on the right hand side of the page.
 * 3) Title: where you will use info in paper.
 * 4) Source: The source of the info (you've already entered this into Noodles).
 * 5) Cluster: use if you want
 * 6) URL: enter the persistent URL--some may not have this link.
 * 7) Pages: If there is a printed number on the source, enter it. If not, leave blank.
 * 8) Tag: Use if you'd like. Tags help keep "like" info labeled.
 * 9) Each note card must contain the following:
 * 10) A direct quote (enclosed in quotation marks) from a source.
 * 11) A paraphrase (of above direct quote).
 * 12) My Ideas: a critique of the info--what connections are you making--reaction to the info.
 * 13) You will need to "print" the notecards in order for them to be a document that you can upload to your wiki. [|Printing Notecards from NoodleTools.pdf]

===The exact grading criteria for your notecards can be found here: [|Note_Card_Rubric.doc] === = = ==Research Questions (to start with)= A good research question should have all of the following elements: ** Poor ** : Are obesity and anorexia nervosa related to too much stress in our society? It has 2 large topics  Best: Is there a link between anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls and media-images of thin women? Limited and focused.
 * 1) The research question should be written as a single sentence question.
 * 2) The research question should contain a limited topic.
 * 3) The research question should ultimately generate an argumentative paper.
 * Better ** : Is anorexia nervosa related to too much stress in our society? Still really large topic.