Thursday, February 9, 2012

Research Journal #3

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”
 Ex: Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?
The .22 Caliber Rorschach Test 
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)
Ex: POV
Erik Luna 
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )
 Ex: CBC News
Houston Law Review 
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)
Ex: CBC
Utah College Of Law
Date Page was Last Revised
Ex: 10 September 2010
28 March  2002 
Date You Read It
Ex: 21 January 2012
February 9th 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)
http://www.houstonlawreview.org/archive/downloads/39-1_pdf/HLR39P53.pdf


FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):
EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).
The author says that guns can have an important role in stopping school shootings "The deadly assault was ended by students 
who had retrieved guns from their cars.  They approached the 
assailant with the help of others and, according to one of the 
armed students, “I aimed my gun at him, and [the defendant] 
tossed his gun down.” 
America has a gun culture as many citizens have grown up with guns and have had them play major roles in their life. "Culture shapes a group’s worldview by 
providing definition to particular objects, informing (and 
limiting) individual opinions and behavior, and generally 
constructing an appropriate lifestyle within the group.  The 
culture is transmitted among family members, friends, 
communities, and so on, in a form of socially mediated learning. "

The title of the article comes from the way people see guns some see them in  a good way while others see them as horrible things, It could depened on where you are from as" A final geographic phenomenon of the pro-gun culture cuts 
across both the South and the West: rural, small-town America.  
In the United States, inhabitants of countryside regions are more 
likely to own firearms 
134 
 and oppose gun control laws. 135 "

Even your religion and race can determine where you have a preferance to guns or not as "minorities are 
less likely to own firearms 
218 
 and more likely to support gun control." 






Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

The author is a professor on law at the university of Utah and provides a statement on the american gun control on the people that are part of it and the people that are against it.
Credibility of Source: 
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

The purpose of the site is to inform of the fight over gun ownership and the people that take each side. The article is a pdf so I dont know who funds the site.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

The author does not have anything to gain from this as he is writing for his college that he is employed byBias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

No I do not detect a bias in the writing but I think more of the article was devoted to pro gun people than people who favor gun control.References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

Yes on every page the author cites his references and sources. I think it adds to his credibility as he also provides information on the quotes  
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 
In my project I will use this source to provide an argument for the pro gun control but then use his  gun rights response as a source to counter the argument.

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