Riddle
The Mirror Paradox
Housekeeping
- First Mandatory Conference Reminder and/or Follow-up.
- I have sent links to Zoom Recordings for all conferences so far this semester.
- Grades for Stone Money.
- Post Mechanics using Stone Money as a template
Counterintuitive Questions
- Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in?
- Can we democratize water?
Lecture Demo:
Purposeful Summary
- Summaries Are Arguments
- Lecture/Demonstration: Purposeful Summaries Lecture Demo
Assignment
Purposeful Summaries Task
Before Class WED FEB 07
Follow the link to an explanation of the difference between Quotation, Paraphrase, and the much more useful “Purposeful Summary,” the only method endorsed by this course of incorporating large amounts of information from outside sources.
Bonus Lecture
Counterintuitive Thinking
Professor shares his personal reflections on counterintuitive topics,
many from the world of art, but also popular science and the social sciences.
Bonus Resource
Counterintuitive Topics
As they occur to me, I will continue to add notions and anecdotes that seem to defy logic and reason, or at least expectation.
The Gamer 2.0
SleepyCat
Coffee Lover 03
doglover7025
Snowman10
excellentstudent27
Gymrat
hockeyfan
holistic25
ilovebeesss
ilovemydog
The Gamer
Naturechild101
BreakingBad45
ravensfan8
temporal111
thatpersonoverthere
toetio
username1132005
Calm&Patient
webbwrestler135
Counterintuitive Spring 2024 
Riddles are used to think about everyday things we seem to take for granted or don’t even acknowledge in the first place because we often don’t question the obvious.
According to the Jimmy Carter example, he was advised to change which side he shaped his hair to when running for president because it is thought the parting of one’s hair (for men) with their right-hand assert’s leadership and dominance whereas from the left expresses a more artistic view. The point: the way we look matters.
When you make a post, always start with the title of the assignment (e.g. “Stone Money”) and your username. Otherwise, it’s unclear to Professor Hodges what the post is for.
Titles are your first claim. A title establishes the parameters for your work of writing. Center your title and keep it in heading format.
This class uses APA style — it should say references, not works cited. Don’t italicize, bold or underline the word.
Governments and countries dispose their citizens of rights (owning land, houses) so things such as people living on other people’s front lawns don’t happen.
Purposeful summary is the most important component of a research paper. At most, only a paragraph per source should be summarized. Also, summaries are arguments. You should only be communicating what’s important and doing so succinctly. You’re interpreting someone else’s point of view. Deploy in a way that is ethical to the original author. The only thing you can’t do is lose the integrity of the original work. You don’t have to agree with the author you’re doing a purposeful summary of, but don’t distort what you say they are saying.
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Brilliant work, Holistic. This is everything Notes should be for this class. They deliver short purposeful summaries of the content, writing tips, takeaways, counterintuitive observations . . .
Just to clarify one thing:
I’m not sure what “only a paragraph per source should be summarized” means, but I remember wondering how what I said would be interpreted. You might read a 5-page article and find most of it relevant, or you might find just a very brief section relevant. Either way, you could probably summarize what matters in a paragraph that would fit into your paper.
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-the professor expressed the meaning of riddles is to either look further into things we normally don’t question. And a core tenet, in my belief, of academic writing is to learn, or to express what one has learned. And so our riddle today tackled the nature of riddles and allowed the class to think about the way our world works.
-We also went over the idea of citizens and how that relates to moving to a new country. How citizens effectively become victims of circumstance. Who gets to decide who’s a citizen? Why are these silly laws made? Why are humans a notoriously social race constantly pushing away others of those same race?
-Why would humans again, a race that needs others to survive, actively suppress the acquisition of an element of life required to live? Is it just to exercise a single person’s control over others? Why does that person need to have that control? Are they missing something in their lives that would’ve made them a better person had they experienced that thing earlier in their lives? Were they just born like that?
-The purposeful summary suggests that a summary is an argument. It has to be that a person can’t summarize a single piece of media without inserting their own ideas into that media. You have to pick and choose certain things to summarize and so you’d have to ask yourself what’s important. The summary then consists of what’s important to you. One also has to be careful to not over crowd your own work with someone else’s.
-The existence of a three parent baby shows that the movie Gataga is becoming a reality which gives me mixed feelings.The ultra rich has the means to ensure that their offspring doesn’t.
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Very nice, TPOT. I love that you’re using Notes to record the questions you have while attending to the material. Your brain is wide awake.
Here’s a really nice summary of summaries:
I particularly like that you observe that we can’t summarize without interpreting. The very act of choosing what to report and what to repress CHANGES the content we supposedly only repeat. We can’t claim to be objective; the best we can do is acknowledge our prejudices.
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The riddle today had to do with the mirror paradox. An example was Cindy Crawford. When we look at her or she looks at herself in a picture we can see that our perspective shows us the opposite of what is. When looking at a mirror thought, it flips us front to back, and nobody ever sees us that way.
If we haven’t signed up for the mandatory meeting for our hypothesis we should get on that. The second mandatory conference is a month from now on March 7th.
Our meetings are recorded because we can go back to them to see if there is any information that we need or can’t remember.
Usually, the only thing that is graded on the blog is our class notes. Our class notes are graded because they can make a difference in our final grade at the end of the semester.
If there is any time we are behind on notes we can always fill them in to get credit for them.
It is important to make sure that our posts on the blog are underneath the write categories as well as with the correct title. It makes it easier for Mr. Hodges to find our posts and make sure that we did our work.
It is also important to write references instead of works cited because this is an APA class.
Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in? It doesn’t make any sense at all. If we wanted to move somewhere that isn’t where we are a citizen we wouldn’t be allowed to unless we get citizenship of the country we want to be living in.
There are places in The United States where you can’t collect rainwater on your property.
Why did we come up with this idea that we own land? We came up with this idea because we don’t to have strangers living in our front yard. However, we can’t even collect the rain that falls on our land.
A lot of the time we as people don’t take the time to learn or pay attention to the things that go on around us. We have a lot of important things going on that we don’t even realize it.
The most important component of a research paper besides having good ideas is the purposeful summary. It is the most important writing skill for communicating the research that we gained from reviewing other people’s research.
When we research we should look for the most important things that could support our writing. We should acknowledge what helps and supports our writing.
If we can’t find a quote we can paraphrase from scratch what the author said, or we can quote in parts what was said, or we can do both of these things.
We have to deploy what we are saying ethically so we don’t take what the author says out of context.
Using too many quotes is unnecessary.
Of the data that is produced even if we contradict what the author says we can still use them as a source. The only thing that we can’t do is say that the author would agree with us if they didn’t.
A summary doesn’t recount the entire subject matter, it is an argument, it does not lie, and it can dispute the original,
We have an assignment due Wednesday before class, which is reading 3 articles and making a purposeful summary for each of them in a reply to that page.
When we summarize we do not have to agree with what is being said.
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What a great day for Exemplary Notes! This is three in a row at the top of the Reply stream, all of them terrific, all of them different.
Just one clarification
True, your Class Notes can be a tie-breaker grade, but the reason they’re graded is that they have the actual practical benefits of giving you practice in purposeful summary AND they clearly indicate who was paying strict attention and who was napping.
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-Riddle of the day: a mirror flips from front to back not left to right.
-You are born a citizen in your country so you are able to do things.
-Purposeful summary is the most important writing skill for communicating the information from other people or websites. Summarize the sources that are the most important. Only take certain parts out that make sense to your topic.
-Do not use quote or paraphrase because it leaves little room for your own words and thoughts
-Assignment: Purposeful summary task use Counterintuitive Topics and summarize them and give your opinion and feedback.
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Well, I wouldn’t say this at all, RavensFan; and I hope I DIDN’T say it
I probably did warn against loading up your essay with so much quoted material that it crowds out your own original content.
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Its weird that you can work in the country your born in automatically, but not other countries
There are places where you can’t collect rainwater, where your not allowed to keep and drink it
Summarize the parts of a source that are important to your purpose as to reduce length
You can quote, paraphrase, or combine the two to explain something based on whichever one is most convenient
The camera men were told to take pictures and gather info, but then were criticized for doing just that and not helping. Ethically questionable.
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What’s the ethical question? That the photographers took pictures instead of helping? That they were sent to take pictures instead of helping? Or that in the face of suffering or human emergency they elected to follow their mandate?
Pick up another point on today’s Notes with your Reply, if you wish, Temporal.
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all of those questions are valid ethical concerns, it doesn’t have to be just one of them. you can say that they should have helped in the face of suffering, despite not being mandated to, and you could argue that they shouldn’t have been sent to just take pictures in the first place. I suppose the term “ethically questionable”, and really any real life situation, usually implies more than one question and a sense of greyness.
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Agreed, Temporal. Thank you for your thoughtful response. While you’re not obligated to do so, you are always encouraged to record observations similar to these in your Class Notes, in part to stimulate your own thinking, and also partly to practice evaluating and critiquing claims made by others in an academic setting. Such comments would have supplemented your neutral reflections on these other topics:
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– Riddles are something that can be related to a writing skill, but sometimes it is a reminder of how accustomed we are to not questioning the world and the way it works.
– If looking at yourself from different perspectives and through a mirror you see yourself “fliping” from left to right, why it doesn’t flip horizontally instead of vertically? A mirror doesn’t flip left-to-right. It flips front-to-back.
– Remember to schedule a mandatory conference to discuss and defend your hypothesis
– Class Notes may be a small part of your grade (5%) but they can play a key role when you only need one point to get a +A
– It is important to write the name of the assignment as a title next to your username for each assignment. This will make grading and feedback easier.
– Why do you have to be born in a specific country to be a citizen? It is almost ironic that in some countries it is necessary to be a citizen to contribute to the country’s economy.
– Purposeful summary: the most important component of a research paper. Summarize using only what is useful to your argument. You owe the author nothing except respect for what he intended to portray. We don’t necessarily need to agree with what the author says, and we can compare and contrast what he intended to say, but we can’t twist the author’s words or meaning, it would be unethical.
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Very nice summary of the methods and demands of ethical purposeful summary, Bees.
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-Riddle:If you were to meet someone face to face we start to flip what is actually going on. Cindy Crawford has a mark on the left side of her face but because we see her from our perspective it’s on our right. When she sees herself in the mirror the mark is now on the right side of her cheek in the mirror. From her perspective looking at the mirror it would be on her left side. The way people see you can really matter. Jimmy Carter was elected president after he parted his hair to the opposite side. Whether it helped him win or not it could’ve possibly played a part because of how the people see him. A mirror doesn’t flip left to right, it flips front to back. It sends back the image you see just from the other side. If a mirror did flip left to right you would see something go from your left hand to your right hand. We don’t see things that way however. Type appears to be reflected backwards when looking into a mirror but we still read the words correctly because they are still spelled from left to right.
-Housekeeping:Sign up for mandatory conference if not done so already. Zoom recordings have been sent out to all who have attended a conference.
-Counterintuitive questions: Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in? The country people are born into almost prohibits you from moving to another country. Other countries would have to give permission for people to come over so they can live. We can spend time in another country but some countries do not want people born in other countries to live there unless they want to become citizens in that country. Most citizenship depends on the country we are born in. There are some countries however in which it does not matter if a person is born in a country and that does not equal citizenship. Can we democratize water? It is illegal in some parts of the US to collect rain. A person can sell land and buy land as well. There are privileges to buying land. A person can not however, collect the rain or water that falls on their property. It is possible that these areas can change that but as of now those areas do not allow property owners collect the water or rain that goes on their property.
-Lecture Demo: The Purposeful Summary is the most important writing skill to communicate the research the person gained from another’s ideas. When going to write a summary, the most important parts of the research should be included. The summary should not be everything in the article or research piece you are looking at. Only the parts of the piece that are most important to a person’s paper should be included or talked about. Generalizations can be made to make a summary even shorter. Ideas can still be incorporated without describing every single part of the research piece. Purposeful Summaries should communicate only what is important and it should generalize the information read or received. If the author gives a generalization it can be quoted to help make a point in the person’s writing piece. Too much quotation can make readers not consider an author’s argument or side. When not including their own language, the piece not longer becomes much of that author’s work. Purposeful summaries reduce research sources to their smallest amount of useful information. The purposeful summary makes the words added from research that much better. It shows how important those words truly are in the writing. Integrity should be kept for the author however and what they intended their words to mean.
-Assignment:Due before class Wed Feb 7 is the purposeful summaries task.
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So thorough, EaglesFan!
I wonder if, instead of trying to record every word you hear, you might produce even more impressive Notes by waiting a moment, until you can draw a conclusion, before transcribing the claims you hear.
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– The Mirror Paradox: Riddles can be an acknowledgment of how we think about things in the world. When meeting someone face to face, we see the opposite of what is there, when looking from different perspectives it matters how people view it. If it flips left to right, why doesn’t the mirror flip upside down? It’s because it doesn’t flip, it’s just front to back.
– Housekeeping: If a meeting was not scheduled for your mandatory meeting with the professor, do so soon, it’s due today, February 5th, 2024. It’s recommended that if you’re new to the Zoom platform, practice before the planned time of the meeting so confusion won’t be an issue. Recorded links to Zoom calls will be provided by the professor for future reference or concern.
Again, class notes are found to be appropriate to help assist in bringing up grades, they are considered mini-writing assignments that are beneficial to introduce the professor to your writing style. Grades and feedback for stone money are normally not posted however the professor got to use an example of what a good essay can be constructed as.
– Counterintuitive Questions: Why are we citizens of countries where we were born? It’s a birthright given due to being born in that particular place. It stops one from moving around to different areas of the world. Who gets to decide and who gets to enforce that? Why is it fair or unfair?
Can you collect rain that falls on your property? In some places you can’t, why? Honestly, it depends on where you reside.
– Purposeful summary: The most important component of a research paper, it helps form great ideas, to communicate the research that you’ve gained from other’s ideas. If you’re trying to summarize a 300-page book, don’t try to summarize the whole thing, find what’s important to your writing. It can’t necessarily warp what the author said however, be careful to not take out of context or purposely misinterpret what was said.
– If you are over-quoting, it diminishes what your own writing is valued as,
purposeful summary leaves out everything except useful facts or conclusions. The only thing you can’t do is misrepresent what the author was originally expressing. Retaining integrity is important.
– Go to the counterintuitive link to read and summarize it, that is purposeful to claim your own argument, to prove that what you learned reflects what you read. In your summary you can agree or disagree, you can’t dispute the author. Have to start with “it sounds counterintuitive that…” and choose 3 sources.
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Very nice work, NatureChild.
I do notice some vagueness in your Notes that I will attribute to the difficulty of writing polished prose while trying to transcribe some of the material while still paying attention to a lecture that doesn’t pause to give you time to catch up.
It’s a difficult challenge. But here’s an example:
“the opposite of what is there” means almost nothing. When meeting someone face to face, we see exactly what is there. We don’t see what THEY would see if they looked into a mirror, but we do see exactly what they would see if they ran into themselves on the street, or saw a photograph of themselves.
Keep up the good work.
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-Riddle: Cindy Crawford looked different from her point of view compared to how we see her at her point of view. In the mirror it flips your image front to back, not left to right. This is teaching us that not everything is how we see it, and to think deeper into certain things.
-We need to make sure that when we post something to the blog that we have the proper categories listed alongside proper titles and usernames for easy access.
-Counterintuitive questions: Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in? A lot of countries can have laws where if the parent is a citizen, the child can be in that place. But for example if I wanted to move from here to Tokyo, I could not because I am not a citizen. This is not fair to us considering they say that we have freedoms but we cannot move to where we would want to live if we don’t have citizenship.
-Counterintuitive questions: Can we democratize water? I learned that there are some places in the US where it is not legal to collect the rain that falls on your land. I also find that to be ridiculous as to why it is illegal to use that water or drink it, even though most would not have that idea to start drinking that water.
-A purposeful summary is the most important component of a research paper. This is an important writing skill so that we can show what we learned and interpreted from reading different articles and acquiring research.
-For example, if a book was 300 pages, a summary about all of that information could be around 5 pages or less. All you are looking to write down is information that can match your research proposal, and just write down the key points of the text.
-For a purposeful summary, you can paraphrase a quote from scratch based on what the author has said, or you can quote in whole or part what the author said. But you could even combine the two to make essentially a paraphrased summary.
-For these summaries it can be easy to misinterpret or get off track from what the author was saying in the text.
-In your research paper it is important to have sources and quotes, but not to overdo it so that the quotations do not speak for our own argument. We have to make sure to use our own thoughts and opinions for research.
-A purposeful summary is an argument, while it touches on key points, it does not recite all of the subject matter. The summary has to be true to the original, and cannot go off track about what the author claims.
-For our 3 summaries due next class period we have to start them with “It seems counterintuitive that…”
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Beautiful work, Username.
Really this has been just a fantastic day for Class Notes. This class seems to embrace the idea that notes are small summaries of academic material and therefore good writing assignments. (I can’t say whether anyone agrees with that claim, but you’re certainly practicing the skill as if it mattered.)
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– Riddles can be a way of getting us to think about things we take for granted or have never bothered to question.
– In our 3000-word essay we may find 50 articles, save 30, annotate 20, and directly quote 7. Directly quoting from the sources will leave less room for original thoughts and claims; they should rather be used as supporting evidence
– Purposeful summaries don’t directly quote from a source, they are meant to summarize the most useful content. We can use such content in a way that fits with the claim we are presenting, even if it is contradictory to what the author originally concluded; as long as we don’t misrepresent what the author intended.
– Purposeful Summaries: Use three articles from the counterintuitive topics category and summarize whether or not you agree with the claims made; utilize what we find to claim our own argument.
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Your notes are not extensive, SleepyCat, but they are as well-phrased as polished drafts. This example shows evidence of great care:
That’s either an extraordinary first draft or it demonstrates that you’re devoting time and effort to polish your drafts before you publish them.
Either way 4/3
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Riddle; Talked about Cindy Crawford that was a Very popular person at a time still is very well known. The image shown looks like she is looking at us from the right side when you’re looking at face to face or how she sees herself in a photograph but she sees herself in the mirror and looks flipped. Instead of it flipping horizontally and vertically it would just flip front to back because it would send the image that you’re looking at right back at you.
It does matter why citizens are born in their country in my opinion because it is a way to categorize people and for example if they were to apply for a job they would take a citizen rather than a non citizen.
Some states are not allowed to drink water that falls on their yard which is weird because I feel like if everyone has rights they should be able to do what they want with that. But why are there laws that prevent people from this because I feel it’s unnecessary in the first place.
Purposeful Summary- What are purposeful Summaries? In my opinion I think a purposeful summary is breaking down a story or passage to the most important part that is understandable to you and that you are able to explain to others well. A purposeful summary should not be a quote or not be paraphrased because too much of it would leave little to no space for your own words.It’s an argument, it also tells the truth and it can dispute the original statement that the author had said.
Assignment purposeful summary read 3. Of them and write down summary and post in the Deadlines section for it.
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These aren’t the best Notes I’ve read today, TheGamer, but they’re unique and special in their approach. You’re using Notes to argue back with the propositions presented in class, which demonstrates even more clearly than a careful transcription that you’re paying attention to and engaging with the material.
You and I might need Round Two on the citizenship question. You say:
And I respond
For engagement and originality: 4/3
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1. Riddles and Perception:
– Riddles prompt deeper inquiry into overlooked aspects of life.
– Example: Jimmy Carter’s altered hair parting during his presidential campaign.
– Significance: Demonstrates how trivial details can influence perception and decisions.
2. Citizenship and Societal Constructs:
– Citizenship dictates individuals’ rights and affiliations within a country.
– Questioning the arbitrary nature of citizenship laws and restrictions on movement.
– Reflection on government’s role in regulating citizenship and its implications for individuals.
3. Purposeful Summary:
– Purposeful summary is an argumentative interpretation of key points from a source.
– Selection of pertinent aspects while maintaining the integrity of the original work.
– Goal: Conveying the essence of the source while offering insights and analysis.
4. Counterintuitive Questions:
– Challenging conventional perspectives on citizenship and societal norms.
– Questions about the rationale behind citizenship laws and contradictions within legal frameworks.
– Exploration of restrictions on rainwater collection despite property ownership.
5. Lecture Demo Insights:
– Emphasis on the importance of purposeful summaries in communicating research findings.
– Need to distill complex information into concise and impactful summaries.
– Highlighting the significance of each detail in supporting one’s argument.
6. Assignment Details:
– Synthesizing information from various sources into succinct summaries.
– Capturing the essence of each source to develop cohesive arguments.
– Due before class on Wed, Feb 7.
This assignment aims to deepen understanding of riddles, citizenship, and purposeful summarization, fostering critical thinking and analytical skills.
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Stunning Notes, Snowman.
The way I picture it, you take rough notes during class and store them for later processing, then whip them into outline shape later the same day while the contents are still fresh, and polish the language to achieve a consistent tone. It’s a remarkable achievement, and I hope it’s also more useful than spontaneous notes would be to you. Someday I’d like to see your impromptu content-gathering notes. In fact, you could drop them into a Reply right here. I’ll bet they’d also earn high grades.
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-The Mirror Paradox. Question why does a mirror flip horizontally and not vertically, answer mirror’s flip front to back. The riddles are often related to the days lesson plan, but sometimes they are just their to encourage the students to think about things they wouldn’t normally think about, as was the case today
-The two counterintuitive questions served a similar purpose to the mirror paradox riddle. Both questions were designed to make us think about how arbitrary laws and rules can sometimes be
-Post should have their section in the title and should also have the author’s name to make them easier to find. All posts should be categorized
-Purposeful summaries only include relevant information. When summarizing a text you should focus on recurring themes and ideas. When making a purposeful summary you may dispute the claims of the author you are summarizing and even use their own evidence against them, however you should never misrepresent their point of view.
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Strong work, Toetio.
I’m not sure I agree that all the counterintuitive material serves a single purpose:
—Laws and rules can be arbitrary without anybody taking note of the oddness until somebody points it out. The question “Why do we do things this way?” is usually followed by: “This needs to change. It’s unfair, or confounding, or gets in the way of a community goal, or . . . ” Those observations make for really good persuasive essays.
—Mirrors aren’t arbitrary at all. They act the same way every time. And there’s nothing unfair about them except that they make me look older than I know I am.
—Reply with observations of your own if you want a grade boost for today’s Notes.
Some usage/punctuation notes:
—mirrors (not mirror’s) flip things front to back.
—related to the day’s (not the days) lesson plan
—they are just there (not their) to encourage
Provisional Grade 3/3
Improvable with your response
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The riddle shows that perspectives can change depending on who is looking at it and from what side it is being looked at.
The way you look can change on perspective but you are still the same person yourself (from the riddle)
riddles usually have to do with what class will be about
The next mandatory conference is on March 7th!
Make sure the title matches the category of what you are writing about so it can be easier for the professor to see.
Citizenships are given in the place were born in, but that all depends on the government. Why is the government in charge? I don’t know we as a society just allowed everything that is happening to continue happening because it keeps society structured and out of place.
Water can be democratized, but I do not think it is
Purposeful summary is one of the most important writing skills because it is the communication of the knowledge that you gain from what you have read.
When writing you want to pick out information from other sources that bring relevance to your argument.
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Riddles are great for things we dont question or take for granted. We discussed celeb Cindy Crawford. Perspective changes depending on how youre looking at it. Some of the riddles have relevance to what were learning about, sometimes they dont.
Housekeeping- make sure we schedule zoom conference, professor records zoom and sends it to us so we can look back on it.
We only use APA in this class. Also important that we categorzie correctly on blog. This is so it doesnt lead to confusion.
Discussed two counterintuitive questions- Can we democratize water, and why are we citizens of the country we are born in? Brings us back to the riddle and how we take things for granted/ dont think about info that pertains to us.
Purposeful summary lectured demo———
Learning about purposeful summary- Most important component of a research paper.
You have to find the most important information in book when summarizing
You can paraphrase, you can quote, or combine the two
-Summary doesnt wrap what an author said
Author can contribute to either side of argument just by data being interpreted a couple ways
Powerful and can be misused
A purposeful summary tells the truth, its an argument and can also disput the original
We have to pick three articles and purposefully summarize it. It’s due on 2/7 before class!
You can agree or disagree with any of the articles picked
You have to start with “it seems counterintuitive that”
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This sounds like you’re wrestling to describe something important, DogLover.
That’s always a good sign.
Grade 3/3
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Looking at the picture of cindy crawford if we look directly at it the picture is flipped; If a mirror flips your image why does it only flip vertically not horizontally?; a mirror doesn’t flip left to right, it flips front to back.
The agenda notes make a huge difference in your grade even though it is only worth 5%.
You cannot work in a different place other than where you are born because you don’t have citizenship. If you want to work somewhere else you need a visa or dual citizenship. Why do countries have the right to decide where you have citizenship?
Can you collect the water that falls on your property called rain? In the US there are places where it is illegal to collect the rain that falls on your property
Purposeful summary: Very critical to any argumentative paper, it is the most important component of a research paper, as well as the most important writing skill communicating the research you have gained during the time you took to look at other people’s ideas. It would be very counterproductive to summarize 300 pages; you only need to room for the parts of that 300 page book that are important to what is relevant to your essay; if there is a theme developed throughout the book and it has relevance throughout your essay it would be wise to include more parts; communicate only what is important do do it distinctly.
Purposeful summary: You can quote if you feel the author said something about passing down fears to their offspring; if the author offers up the generalization and the species you are interested in writing about you get it for free and you are getting it from a trusted researcher. You can also create a paraphrase to set up your reader to the claim you have made; purposeful summary does not necessarily warp a authors writing, you need to deploy it in a way that is respectful to the author; the author can contribute knowingly and unknowingly by just introducing data that can be used by both sides.
You may save 50 sources, but you only direct quote 7; in 3000 words if you quote more than 7 sources you are devoting more or someone else’s word count than your own.
You don’t owe the author anything other than relaying what the author is intending
Counterintuitive links in the sidebar, find something to investigate, summarize; purposeful; use what you find there to claim whether the thing you found is true or false; you do not have to agree when you summarize this work;
If you disagree, start with; it seems counterintuitive…….
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Actually, HockeyFan, you don’t owe the author anything affirmative except credit for having been your source.
What you mean by
is that you have an obligation NOT TO DECEIVE readers with a MISINTERPRETATION of the author’s intention. But you can summarize the content of research without ever bothering to share with your readers what the original author(s) concluded about the data.
Make any reasonable Reply if you’d like to pick up another point on today’s Notes.
Grade 3/3
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Due to my absence my notes may be vague but I have attempted to gather as much from other students work as I could.
The mirror riddle : We are often presented with concepts that we just accept and never think about. For instance how a mirror displays a flipped image of ourselves. Our true image is quite literally the opposite of what we are used to seeing.
Counterintuitive Examples: Why are we just assigned citizenship to where we are born? What if we had no intentions of living or working in that country. Why do countries have this right?
Purposeful summary: An absolutely vital part of a research paper. Summaries in a way are all arguments. You do not need to add all the fluff in your summary, only the important aspects. When summarizing it is important to stay ethical and not try to bend or change what was said in the original writing, even if you don’t agree.
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Strong work for having been absent, ES.
You could pick up another point if you’re willing to engage a bit more. You say:
—What’s a “literal opposite” of a visual image?
—What’s the relevance to a writing lesson of a riddle about mirrors? Does it have anything to do with your professor’s obsession with counterintuitivity and your own observation that “We are often presented with concepts that we just accept and never think about”?
Grade 3/3
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February 05th, 2024
College Comp II
Professor Hodges
Rowan University
Class Notes
Stone Money blog format:
– Make sure you have a title
– Make sure your title is also aligned in the middle
– Write STONE MONEY-your name (BLOG NAME) above the title aligned to the left
Counterintuitive questions:
1. Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in?
We are citizens of the country we were born in because we were born there and if you are born in a specific place then you should be considered a citizen of that country. If you’re parents wee born in the US and they fly to Germany and your mother gives birth to you there you will be considered a German because you were born in Germany, and it legally states on written paper you were born there. Most people get that confused and think just because they are from a certain background and their parents are born in a different country like Brazil you automatically consider your self Brazilian. Yes your parents are Brazilian and yes they are latin, but that makes you a descendant and makes you have a Latin background, but that doesn’t make you Brazilian if you were legally born in the states.
2. Can we democratize water?
If rain falls from the sky and it lands on your property is it yours and can you collect It?No you cannot. The reason is because I some parts in the United States you can’t because its illegal. Though some parts you can, but you can’t drink it some people use it to water their plants. You can make the water yours by using it for things outside but not for drinking but technically the water isn’t really yours. Yes it falls on your property but can you really collect every rain drop?
What consists of a purposeful summary? *****Summary( Make it yours)*****
• It takes away from the original language used in the summary making it your own
• It takes away the authors original argument used in the summary using yours
• It can take away all the authors questions and answers and conclusions turning it into your own
• It can change attitude based on what your write and re read from the original to make it your own
• It can take away from the resources that’s originally used in the originally and add yours to make it your own as well.
• You can make a purposeful summary in 3 paragraphs/ Disagree or Agree with the claim
Assignment (HW) under deadlines
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Well, CoffeeLover, you’re recording the content of the conversation and adding an example of the conundrum, but you seem to be neglecting that the reason we’re discussing citizenship and birth location is to question WHY emerging from Mom in Germany makes you a German citizen.
By the way, you’d have to check about German law. Babies born in the United States are automatically American citizens, but not every country has a similar law.
You answer the rainwater collection question in a similarly narrow way:
Granted, it’s the law.
Question: Who gave anybody the right to restrict a landowner from drinking the rainwater that falls into his pond, pool, rain barrel? Even better question: Who gave anybody the right to “own land”?
Earn another Notes point by responding if you wish.
Grade 3/3
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Counterintuitive Questions:
1. Can we democratize water? No, although you can obtain water on your own, it is not technically “yours”. You can try to make water your own, but it would be impossible to collect every drop.
2. Why are we citizens of the country we are born in?
When writing a purposeful summary..
•Find the essential information in the book/article
•Summaries are a type of argument.
•Make sure to add solely relevant information. No room for fluff!
•Do not bend or change what was said in the original source that you are summarizing. Make sure to get the correct information and overall message across!
Remember: To schedule a zoom conference by 2/5!
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Hmmmmm . . .
Your observation that “it would be impossible to collect every drop” of rainwater is clever, but feels like you’re dodging the question about whether water can be democratized.
Suppose I figure out a way to compel water vapor from the air on my property to condense on the outside of a surface and then let it drip into collectors. You’ve seen this happen naturally (dew, frost, the outside of a glass of iced tea). All you need is a surface with a temperature difference and a bit of humidity. Will I get all of it? No. Does it matter? I’m still “stealing” water from the community, right? If the community lets me take it, though, they’re giving every citizen a right to get water without relying on government. I’d call that “democratizing water.”
Earn another point on today’s Notes by Replying, if you wish.
Grade 3/3
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Class Riddle- The Mirror Paradox
Looking at someone we see what is on their left side on our right side, when looking at a photograph it is the same or vice versa
But when looking in the mirror nothing is flipped
When looking in the mirror why doesn’t it flip upside down?
It flips front to back not left to right
Housekeeping-
Mandatory conference deadline is today/links sent out to us
Counterintuitive Questions-
1. Why are we citizens of the country were born in?
the question of why we aren’t allowed to up and move to another country was discussed and we went into depth about different countries rules and regulations about citizenship and the why’s and why nots about citizenship in our country and others around the world
1. Can we democratize water?
we also discussed the humor in the fact that some states in the USA regulate the fact that we could collect the rain water that falls on our property, New Jersey allows us to collect it but not drink it
Purposeful Summary-
Due before class FEB 7
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