Chapter Three Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism

In chapter three of Krause, “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism”, Krause explains the simple procedures not to get into trouble when using different techniques of writing. First off, the main point is to make sure when you quote, to give credit to your information that you are sharing. When we are summarizing a book or a story of some sort we need to make sure that we just give that facts and stay away from quotes during a summarization. Also because a book or paper has a summarization already we do not cut and paste from this because it is not our own. To have a good summarization we have to make sure we read the text thoroughly. Krause then goes on the explain how to quote and paraphrase, I felt like the quote information was just a review for me but I did not catch a lot of paraphrasing information. When quoting it is best to use it when, the authors words are going to help your point. In this case paraphrasing may not be the choice to use because someone could take what you are saying differently then you would like the reader too. But with each quote that is used you have to have a proper citation and cited source in your paper. At the end of this chapter Krause explains simple ways not to plagiarize. Plagiarism is unaccredited us of words or ideas of an author or a source that you are using. There are different types of plagiarism. Purposeful, which is turning in someone else’s work that is not yours. Accidental plagiarism is improper citing or summarization. Whether it is purposeful or accidental it’s all wrong. Students have to make sure that they credit all of there information and that they cite it correctly. At the end of this page Krause gives examples of different types of quotes and sources being cited in different formats which was useful to see.

Chapter six “The Annotated Bibliography Exercise”

I think that Krause started this chapter with one of the most important things. He explained to me what I was reading about and what that is. An annotated bibliography is not used that often in high school if even at all. He talks about things that I have messed up on before and have now cleared up. I did not know that it was plagiarism to take the summery and use it as yours. Also this is supposed to be a short summery not a book. The next important thing to me as well as a lot of other students is, why? Why would we waist our time to write extra summaries and change what we have already learned in the past. What I took from Krause’s chapter six, is that this can be a way to take care of keeping track of all of the sources that you are thinking about using and that you have. With these summaries you are able to remember what that source had as information. Also this is another way to get your citations completely done so that you are able to copy and paste your own work. When using an annotated bibliography man students are going to ask how many sources are needed, I feel the best way to answer this is the more the better, there is no need to have ten sources for an eight page paper, but if you used them, write them down. With our assignment coming up of doing an annotated bibliography it was nice to have Krause describe how to go through the process of writing one. I am one to want to get everything done at once, and Krause says that this is not the way to go about doing this bibliography. Having read this chapter before our assignment was due is going to help a lot. I am glad that I have this information in front of me.

Reading Response “Research Essay”

In chapter ten, The Research Essay, Krause first talks about why we call it a research essay not a research paper. He says that the vibes that we get from the word papers is not positive, so when kids hear essay, they feel they can be more creative. He also explains that most college papers need research, so every paper is a research paper. His last point was that research can mean so many different things in different fields. When going through our papers we need to be asking ourselves questions. Questions are a way to make sure that everything that needs to be answered, is. Also we need to be able to look at our purpose and think of how we need to write it. Who the audience is going to be will change the way you write anything. This is also know as your voice. Through the end of this chapter, Krause goes through every step including editing a paper. He makes sure that each step s explained and tells why it is important. The introduction is to get the readers attention and explain the essay. Background information is the explanation of every piece of evidence. Through out the paper pieces of evidence need to be weaved into the writing. In the conclusion you must bring the reader to a point of closure. But you cannot just close your paper it needs to be a smooth ending. Krause says that it is good to connect the conclusion with the introduction. In the end of chapter ten Krause talks about how to cite your sources and why it is important. This is where you give credit to the evidence that you used in you paper. This can be other research, books, movies, interviews, anything. I think that this would have been a lot more helpful at the beginning of the semester or even in 101, this is because by now if you don’t know how to do these kinds of papers you are in trouble.

Exploration Two

The United States marines have been around for a longtime. But not to long ago did we start to use the marines as reconnaissance. The First reconnaissance team made up of twenty enlisted men and two officers. They were the first observer group. This was the first unit trained in amphibious reconnaissance. The name soon changed to the arc (VAC). This unit was assigned to pinpointing the enemy’s location throughout the atolls of the Eniwetok islands. The arc soon grew to twenty officers’ 270 enlisted men and 13 navy corpsmen. A turn around for the recon Marines came in July of 1944 in the assault on the Tinian Island. The Navy and the marines were in an argument about what landing zone would be better and who would get to choose. This argument soon came down to sending a group of recon marines to scout each beach and to find out which landing zone would be more safe and easier for both the ground troops and the air and sea support. The marines were sent to one beach to start off only equipped with a knife. They had to wait an extra night to check out the second beach. Again only sent with knives the recon Marines gathered the intelligence they needed to settle the dispute. The Marines had chosen the right beach. Beach two had been armed with artillery. “Had the division gone ashore on the spot picked by Kelly (navy), it would have been a slaughter…) This proved the recon marines as a weapon of warfare. The marines would see service in iwo jima and Okinawa, as well as other amphibious assaults in the pacific. During this time marines were often seen training with navy under water demolitions. During WWII there would be 108 missions carried out by these marines, often equipped with a Ka-Bar knife and swim gear. The first Marine division recon Company came from the 5th marine regiment, they would trade in some reconnaissance schooling for actual combat training. The second amphibious reconnaissance Battalion was in camp lejeune, North Carolina. On the west coast at camp Pendleton the first reconnaissance battalion was started on march 5, 1951. Both of these regiments would be active during the Korean war. The force recon marines keep developing as a combat trained intelligence-gathering group. New tactics were developed. Instead of beach warfare they needed to get into the mountains, the helicopter was used. Also because of the helicopters divers needs the marines went to jump school to jump out of planes. The marines jumped from every type of aircraft the navy could throw at them. They were even jumping through Bombay doors. There were two different types of recon that this group would do. Key hole and Sting Ray. Key hole is a no fire type of recon where they only had weapons for backup. Sting Ray the Marines went out looking for trouble and were there to hold a fight. Most key hole recon missions turned into Sting Rays in a heart beat. In this short preview of an article that I have ordered, I learned a lot about how these killing, machines were brought to be. When I say killing machines I don’t mean it in a bad way. These men are taught to kill they are out to get information and protect themselves the carry the message. I want to get deeper into the fact of what they are trained to do. I want to find out what the job oreder of these guys is exactly and what they can do. This is not a group of infantry men, these are force recon marines.

Understanding and using the library and the internet for research.

Understanding and using the library, well after first reading this opening title I thought most of us know how to already. The next part is and the Internet for research. Before I even began to read this chapter I had a feeling that this was not going to be anything but a refresher and a waist of time. It seems as if Krause was just trying to punch old memories back into our heads. In English 101 we even went to an understanding the library class. I feel as if these subjects should be learned by middle school at the latest. If you can figure out how to find what you are looking for in a library, then don’t look there its simple. Also when it comes to internet information, most people are smart enough to look up facts twice to make sure that they are correct or at least said twice. Also you can be smart when you look up information, you can look it up on major websites.(encyclopedia.com, main websites for your subject) I did like how he talked about making sure that you have all of the citation information before you leave and to photo copy important information. I do feel that a lot of his small subjects that he talks about are not needed, unless someone in middle school or even lower is reading this paper. I do not need to be told what an e-mail is or what its for. I think that the most helpful information on this paper what when he had the highlighted boxes such as the do’s and don’ts. And also the captions on the side that would point out what everything was. Over all the paper reviewed some good things for me and made me think about what I was looking at on the Internet. But I also think that this paper might be more beneficial for someone of a younger age to look at. But it was a nice refresher and defiantly not a waist of time.

“Reading Response, Thinking Critically ABout Research.”

In chapter one Of Steven D. Krause’s book, thinking critically about research, Krause explains to us the basic views of research and what it is. Also Krause teaches us how to use research by explaining in different ways we have used it in our world before the college life. After explaining research for a computer to find one you want to purchase Krause changes to academic research. Krause says that academics and scholars conduct research in the same ways that we would. We research to answer a question and to find correct information for that answer. Later in the article we learn about the difference between primary and secondary research. Primary research is the experiments, it is the first a main research, compared to as secondary research being reading the article in a book about the experiment or about the research done. Any time that we quote from a magazine or article we have used secondary research. When we are researching we need to be able to find the difference between scholarly and non-scholarly sources. Krause explains to us that scholarly and academic papers come from academics publishing their opinions and research on discussions of their concern. Non- scholarly sources, are usually written by journalists and writers, who do not have to be experts about the subject they write about. The writing in a Popular source is available for people with different educational backgrounds. Krause also goes on by explaining how we can evaluate our research, find out if our source is credible. We must look for bias and for lies. A lot of researchers come to different conclusions while providing the same research. These differences in conclusions help the researchers find out even more information.

Exploration Blog #1

Exploration Blog #1

Because that I am signed into the military as apart of the Marines, I would like to find out more information on how the military came about with the different branches. And how each branch got its different names and jobs. I would also like to learn specifically about the Marines Force Recon, or Special Forces. I want to know why people think that the marines are the hardcore killing machines that everyone says they are. It would also be nice to learn about the schooling and the different skills that I will receive. I would also like to learn about the life expectancy and just some marine core knowledge. I would like to compare the difference of branches in the military also. Within the marines I could also break down jobs and careers in the military. I could also talk about the different guns and how they will be used and what they are used for. I can talk about the difference between an enlisted man and an officer. I can talk about the process of becoming a marine and what it takes physically and mentally.

Another research topic that I would like to find information about is paintball. I would like to learn more about the east coast and how the paintball world is so big over there. Since I have played paintball with BSU for a national tournament I have seen a lot of different things from the paintball world. I would like to know how many people play, is the sport still growing, what does the future have in store for paintball? Another way I could like at this topic is just for woodsball or just speedball or I could put the two together. Also I could look at how some colleges have paintball as a sport. Having been in the paintball world a lot and for a long time; I just want to find some more information that I don’t already know. It would be fun to find out who made the first gun and how it worked. I can talk about how it first started and how it was played. How speedball came to be.

When It comes to choosing what topic to write about. I want a topic that will be easy for me to find information on but still information that people will be interested in hearing about. I do not want to write a paper that I have written before, I do not want to bore my self or the reader. I have read many papers of other students and some of my own that I could tell did not like the subject, or they were just bored writing the paper.

Another topic that I would not mind writing a paper about would be hunting. I have been hunting with my family since the day I can remember. It would be nice to write a topic that would inform all the hippie tree huggers that what I do isn’t wrong. It would be nice to find information about the topic that would give me statistical information that could help point my views in a positive way for all people. From hunting I can break down the group into big game and small game. From there I can talk about shotguns, rifles, and bows. I can talk about the different calls and how they are used. I would also like to talk about the different shows that are out today in the market for people to watch. There are many different videos and tv broadcastings that show hunting. The price of the hunts that the hosts go on has to be enormous.

I think also that I could write many papers on war. Whether it is a recent one in a iraq or a war that was fought years ago. I really like the history that comes from the wars that we have fought. I could talk about the different branches of the military that were used and why. I could talk about the weapon use, and the struggle on each side for victory. I can also talk about the different leaders in war, or even why the war started. Im interested in why we went to germany before we went to japan when they were the ones who attacked us at pearl harbor. I would really like to learn more about the big battles in towns such as berlin and the battle of gettisburhg. I can talk about the post war affects, homes wrecked, jobs lost, people dying, or worse injured in war. I would like to find out more information on the ganiva convention. I do not see how there is a way that we can restrict things in war. Also I would like to find out more information about guantonamoe bay. I also wanna know why we have to have rules of engagement. And why when an armed Iraqi runs into a mask I can not shoot him because he is praying. I think that the way we approach war today is terrible compared to how we di back in earlier times. I wanna find out what this war in iraq is actually about. Why are we fighting someone that we gave weapons too.

My research topic is going to be the Marine Core. From that broad subject I am going to talk about the marines and when they first came about. I will talk about the weapons they had and their leaders. I will progress from each war until I am in the war in iraq. I will go through the rankings and how you get them. I will tlak about how today you become a marine. I will talk about he training that you will receive and the skill that you will learn. I really want to move past just the marines and go into the different jobs that are available. And mostly talk about the special forces or force recon. It would also be nice to find numbers on lives in the marines, what can I expect from the life expectancy. I want to compare the marines force recon with the army rangers and the navy seals. I want to be able to talk about the way the marines are used and how they are treated. I wanna talk about families in the military and how they are affected. How are wives treated when they are on base and what are the bennifits of on base, to off base. I want to talk about the different perks to being in the military. What they have to offer and what the negatives are.

Research Ideas

Places: Boise, U.S., Korea, Japan, House

People: Kids, Civilians, President, Terrorists, Athlete

Things you have always wondered about: Aliens, Locknest monster (nessy), Paintball, marines

College life, drinking, drugs, alcohol, grades, people

Boise: Hockey, Football, city, potato, mall

What matters to me: Family, paintball, hunting, dog, red white and blue

Local Groups/communities: classes, paintball, drinking friends, dorm guys, frats

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