Day 16: Library Day today!

Objectives:
Students will be able to see and hopefully learn to use the UIUC Library resources to conduct their research for the GRP and the IRP.

Students please go to Room 291 in the Undergraduate Library. Try to come a little before 9:00; I will be waiting for you at the library entrance but we need to be inside the room at 9:00 A.M.

HOMEWORK
For our next class you need to do the following:

1. Most of you voted for"The increasing number of homeless people" as the topic for our Guided Research Paper (10 votes). They way it is now, this topic is too general and we need to narrow it to a more specific focus. Please think about narrowed ideas for this topic. We will brainstorm this in class.

2. This research paper assignment your are about to embark calls for analyzing and evaluating the solution(s), policy(ies) of a organization that has tried to solve the problem in the past. Therefore, we need to find an organization that has addressed the issue of homelessness and proposed or implemented solutions to eradicate it. Please, research organizations in this area. We will brainstorm this in class as well.

3. You should have a tentative topic for your Individual Research Paper by now. If you don't, please choose one by Wednesday. Start your research for articles about your topic; it is important to learn about the topic first doing some extensive reading about it.

Now that you know about some of the resources our library offers, it is important that your research is conducted in the library more than on Google or Wikipedia. Your sources will have to be truly academic and exhibit all the characteristics this type of sources require.