The most important thing about reading for a research paper is...
it provides a lot of information to the paper. It makes us learn about new and old things.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Exercise 1.7
Research Proposal
1. Focusing Question
Who is Jimmy Choo?
2. Primary Sources
Why is he so famous?
Has anyone ever heard of him?
What is he known for?
Why is he so wealthy?
Why are his products so expensive?
-such as $900 shoes
-$3,000 purses
Are his items bad out of cheap material?
Why does it look so nice?
What made him become famous.
How long has he been around?
What will happen when he dies?
Argue:
What makes his products popular?
Analyze:
His famousness
3. What personal expensiveness may have shape the way you feel?
I feel that since I am very well into designer brands, I would like to know why Jimmy Choo's products are so expensive due to his style is not as great as other high end brands.
1. Focusing Question
Who is Jimmy Choo?
2. Primary Sources
Why is he so famous?
Has anyone ever heard of him?
What is he known for?
Why is he so wealthy?
Why are his products so expensive?
-such as $900 shoes
-$3,000 purses
Are his items bad out of cheap material?
Why does it look so nice?
What made him become famous.
How long has he been around?
What will happen when he dies?
Argue:
What makes his products popular?
Analyze:
His famousness
3. What personal expensiveness may have shape the way you feel?
I feel that since I am very well into designer brands, I would like to know why Jimmy Choo's products are so expensive due to his style is not as great as other high end brands.
Monday, September 15, 2008
sources
Nguyen, Kimmy
English 102-011
September 12, 2008
Annotated Bibliography
If you are in need of writing a research paper, the internet is not always the answer. It could be used to find information but everything you read or look at is not always accurate. “Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around eight billion web pages indexed.” (Anonymous, 2006). Google is one of the most popular search engines that people use, but the question is do all people actually use it? I have heard of many different websites where you can do your research at. For example, Consumer Reports, I am aware that it is at least 98% of the time accurate. My family and I have been using this for awhile now and have not had a problem with it. It tells you reviews for cars, electronics, practically any product you are looking for, it almost answers most of your questions you have. LexisNexis is well known and used in a lot of businesses such as law firms, hospitals, any doctor’s office, the government, and much more. I am familiar with this because I work in a law office that uses the online database. LexisNexis was mainly built to focus on legal documents but it has expanded for us to find recent information such as events that recently happened and also provides any issues that are going on, especially legal subjects. You could also research in magazines, journals, newspaper, and live radio news stations. Internet Archive seems pretty interesting because you can access your live music, contributions, jobs, etc…It could be used like the Google search engine, but it very well different. Google does not provide live music and jobs as one of the search tabs but you can still find that stuff easily by just typing it in the search box. I think that research beyond Google is not a bad thing, it’s better to get sources from different reliable places and also textbooks in a library. Some people like to use Google to do some research, but others prefer Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and many other search engines. Everyone has their own preferences on how they want to do their research, weather it is online, from newspapers, magazine articles, or the library.
Research Beyond Google. (2006). Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources Retrieved October 26, 2006, from http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
Google Scholar was launched November 17, 2004 and it is a gadget that people could use to find sources, peer-reviewed papers, and useful materials that cannot be found in a library. This would be a great use to students when they are doing a research paper. Anurag Acharya thought of this idea because people would have free access to sources and it is suppose to help them do their research a lot better and easier. “Google executives declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have not been easily accessible to the public” (John Markoff, 2004). A student had gone to the library to try to find some sorces and it did not work out because the source has been outdated. Google Scholar is supposed to have the most recent updated information for people to use. This is also something very useful and free that people should take advantage of while writing a paper.
John Markoff. (2004d). Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars. San Francisco,CA:
Author. Available from The New York Times Web site, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html?ex=1258520400&en=9f52b8bd48d9815c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt
English 102-011
September 12, 2008
Annotated Bibliography
If you are in need of writing a research paper, the internet is not always the answer. It could be used to find information but everything you read or look at is not always accurate. “Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around eight billion web pages indexed.” (Anonymous, 2006). Google is one of the most popular search engines that people use, but the question is do all people actually use it? I have heard of many different websites where you can do your research at. For example, Consumer Reports, I am aware that it is at least 98% of the time accurate. My family and I have been using this for awhile now and have not had a problem with it. It tells you reviews for cars, electronics, practically any product you are looking for, it almost answers most of your questions you have. LexisNexis is well known and used in a lot of businesses such as law firms, hospitals, any doctor’s office, the government, and much more. I am familiar with this because I work in a law office that uses the online database. LexisNexis was mainly built to focus on legal documents but it has expanded for us to find recent information such as events that recently happened and also provides any issues that are going on, especially legal subjects. You could also research in magazines, journals, newspaper, and live radio news stations. Internet Archive seems pretty interesting because you can access your live music, contributions, jobs, etc…It could be used like the Google search engine, but it very well different. Google does not provide live music and jobs as one of the search tabs but you can still find that stuff easily by just typing it in the search box. I think that research beyond Google is not a bad thing, it’s better to get sources from different reliable places and also textbooks in a library. Some people like to use Google to do some research, but others prefer Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and many other search engines. Everyone has their own preferences on how they want to do their research, weather it is online, from newspapers, magazine articles, or the library.
Research Beyond Google. (2006). Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources Retrieved October 26, 2006, from http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
Google Scholar was launched November 17, 2004 and it is a gadget that people could use to find sources, peer-reviewed papers, and useful materials that cannot be found in a library. This would be a great use to students when they are doing a research paper. Anurag Acharya thought of this idea because people would have free access to sources and it is suppose to help them do their research a lot better and easier. “Google executives declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have not been easily accessible to the public” (John Markoff, 2004). A student had gone to the library to try to find some sorces and it did not work out because the source has been outdated. Google Scholar is supposed to have the most recent updated information for people to use. This is also something very useful and free that people should take advantage of while writing a paper.
John Markoff. (2004d). Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars. San Francisco,CA:
Author. Available from The New York Times Web site, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html?ex=1258520400&en=9f52b8bd48d9815c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt
Google Project - iGoogle
Nguyen, Kimmy
English 102-011
September 12, 2008
Google Project #1—iGoogle
There are many ends to iGoogle, the good and the bad things. Many applications that are provided by iGoogle are very useful and others are not. When you are adding themes to your iGoogle homepage, you have the option to look over the reviews and see how many people have added that particular application. The good things about iGoogle would be that there are many useful gadgets that could pertain to us. For example, we all could use the dictionary, look up what the weather is like, and/or even be on top of what’s going on in the world of news. One great thing is that you can organize everything by tabs. You will automatically have your own homepage where you can customize everything and anything you want on it. The next tab usually would be the “news” tab; it will have all the news stations you can think of. If there is some news that you do not care for, you can easily remove it. You can also add another tab and customize however you want; you can have a section full of games and the next tab could be a section full of financial things, such as stocks. On each tab, you can also have a different theme then what your original homepage was. You can coordinate the themes along with what you have on the page, it’s your homepage, and you can do whatever you want to it. There are not too many bad things about iGoogle, but there are some odds to it. All applications do not always work, you can find out if it works by actually trying it out or just simply reading the reviews. There may be bad links that lead to other websites that does not pertain to the application or it could contain a virus. Also people who do not know how to operate a computer should not use iGoogle, it would be overly complicated for them. Another good but bad thing is that you can use iGoogle anywhere in the world. People that use it could access their local news and other things that go on in their own country. They could also access news from other countries also, such as, we are in the United States, and we can easily pull up some news from China. The bad thing about this is that iGoogle does not necessary always work for everyone, meaning people in China may not have access to everything the United States has and vice versa.
Why do we exactly need or use iGoogle? People use this for many reasons, and more people need to use it to know how great of a gadget it can become. iGoogle is not your typical homepage, it’s nothing like AOL, MSN, Yahoo, etc… It is more of a homepage that you can customize yourself. You can add things such as the dictionary, weather, news, stocks, youtube, horoscopes, and much more. iGoogle is a homepage where it takes time to understand and enjoy.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Google Product
-igoogle,
-finance
-shopping
-goog-411
I personally LOVE igoogle. I know that igoogle can be used as your homepage. I know that you can put all kinds of things on it such as news, youtube, games, whether, dictionary, fitness tips, horoscope, etc...it's basically a homepage where you can personalize anything or however you want. You can select your own theme's, layouts and such, you can also chose from a big variety of over 100 things to add that interest you. It's basically like google.com but with lots and lots of more features.
I would like to know if all applications actually work, and how many gagets you are allowed to have on your homepage.
I believe that this would be a great topic because it basically has everything else google has provided.
I also like using finance, only because I am very well addicted to stock markets to who's going bankrupted, what company is falling, to what's going on in our economy. I have liked this feature very much lately as all of us know the economy is doing poorly. I also would like to know what's going on with products and such. I also like it because it has direct news from cnnmoney.com, business week, and such for news.
I would like to know if it's an actual good source. Is it always accurate?
I think this would be a good topic to write about because not everyone thinks the economy is at a fall right now. No one knows what really goes on in life...financially. Majority of people only know that gas prices are jumping up and down, that's pretty much it.
Shopping is a great feature to use if you are an online shopper. I personally prefer online shopping then actually going to the mall all the time. What I love about shopping is that google compares prices with other places, for example if you wanted to purchase a digital camera, google will find other websites and compare the prices, it will tell you what's the cheapest you can get to what's the most expensive one. It also categorizes the items from new, used, refurbished.
I would like to know...is every online store that google provides is safe, could paypal be used from every transaction?
I think this would be a good topic because not everyone does online shopping. They ask their self if it's safe. You'll be surprised that there are many people that do their shopping online.
GOOG-411 is FREE that's right, it's FREE! Goog-411 is like dialing 411. But when you dial regular 411 from your phone, it usually cost about $1.50. What I like about this is that whenever you are saying the city/state and/or business, they would not just give you one phone number, they will provide you the closest (5) locations of what you are looking for.
What I would like to know is will all stores/places, always be accurate. If a business is not in business will GOOG-411 omit that location?
I think that this would be a good topic because no one has heard of this gadget and also many people would/could start using it!
-finance
-shopping
-goog-411
I personally LOVE igoogle. I know that igoogle can be used as your homepage. I know that you can put all kinds of things on it such as news, youtube, games, whether, dictionary, fitness tips, horoscope, etc...it's basically a homepage where you can personalize anything or however you want. You can select your own theme's, layouts and such, you can also chose from a big variety of over 100 things to add that interest you. It's basically like google.com but with lots and lots of more features.
I would like to know if all applications actually work, and how many gagets you are allowed to have on your homepage.
I believe that this would be a great topic because it basically has everything else google has provided.
I also like using finance, only because I am very well addicted to stock markets to who's going bankrupted, what company is falling, to what's going on in our economy. I have liked this feature very much lately as all of us know the economy is doing poorly. I also would like to know what's going on with products and such. I also like it because it has direct news from cnnmoney.com, business week, and such for news.
I would like to know if it's an actual good source. Is it always accurate?
I think this would be a good topic to write about because not everyone thinks the economy is at a fall right now. No one knows what really goes on in life...financially. Majority of people only know that gas prices are jumping up and down, that's pretty much it.
Shopping is a great feature to use if you are an online shopper. I personally prefer online shopping then actually going to the mall all the time. What I love about shopping is that google compares prices with other places, for example if you wanted to purchase a digital camera, google will find other websites and compare the prices, it will tell you what's the cheapest you can get to what's the most expensive one. It also categorizes the items from new, used, refurbished.
I would like to know...is every online store that google provides is safe, could paypal be used from every transaction?
I think this would be a good topic because not everyone does online shopping. They ask their self if it's safe. You'll be surprised that there are many people that do their shopping online.
GOOG-411 is FREE that's right, it's FREE! Goog-411 is like dialing 411. But when you dial regular 411 from your phone, it usually cost about $1.50. What I like about this is that whenever you are saying the city/state and/or business, they would not just give you one phone number, they will provide you the closest (5) locations of what you are looking for.
What I would like to know is will all stores/places, always be accurate. If a business is not in business will GOOG-411 omit that location?
I think that this would be a good topic because no one has heard of this gadget and also many people would/could start using it!
Monday, September 1, 2008
pg. 17- question 1
When writing my research essay, what techniques or methods could I use to keep the essay interesting to readers even if it is fact-based?
Whenever I write my researcher paper, I will be sure to keep my facts very interesting, readable, and very understanding. I will try my best to give many examples and opinions that could relate to myself or others. I would have to think to myself upon what to write about to make my paper catchy and make the audience not bored of my paper. I want to make it to the point where they started reading the first 2 pages and they are so anxious that they want to continue and not put down the paper. I can also put a little humor in my research paper, as long as I don't go off topic I should be perfectly fine. I could state my opinions and also other people. I could possibly have some questions where it would make the reader think about my paper and such. I should also make my conversation in my researcher paper catchy and going long.
Whenever I write my researcher paper, I will be sure to keep my facts very interesting, readable, and very understanding. I will try my best to give many examples and opinions that could relate to myself or others. I would have to think to myself upon what to write about to make my paper catchy and make the audience not bored of my paper. I want to make it to the point where they started reading the first 2 pages and they are so anxious that they want to continue and not put down the paper. I can also put a little humor in my research paper, as long as I don't go off topic I should be perfectly fine. I could state my opinions and also other people. I could possibly have some questions where it would make the reader think about my paper and such. I should also make my conversation in my researcher paper catchy and going long.
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