Investigative Project

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Investigative Project (Due on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017)

Requirements:

Cover page: (1 page)Summary/Abstract (1 page)Table of Contents (1 page)Introduction (1 page)Objectives (1 page)Body of the Report (17 pages)Conclusion (1 page)Recommendations (1 page)References (1 page)

The font to be used must be Times New Roman (14 for the title and 12 for the rest of the data).

The space between lines and paragraphs has to be 1.5.

It is a three-paragraph-paper.

Each paragraph must contain from 6 to 12 lines (no less than 8, no more than 16).

Specific details about each criterion:

Cover page: (1 page)

It contains:

· The full name of the project (New Tendencies of Education in the 21st Century)

· The name of the class

· The name of the professor

· The names of the group members

· The date when it is presented

Summary/Abstract (1 page)

This part of the report summarizes the ground covered in the body of the report so that anyone wanting a quick review of what the report is about can quickly get the gist of the findings. It must state:

* The aims of the report
* The depth of study that went into the research
* Whether the objective was achieved.

It has to be written in a complete page.

Table of Contents (1 page)

A table of contents is essential for any report that is longer than about ten pages.

The table of contents must be on a page of its own and the page references must match those in the text.

Introduction (1 page)

The introduction gives a broad, general overview of the subject. Its length depends on the target reader's existing knowledge. Try to condense the information to:

·         What will you be doing to address in this paper?

It must clearly state the purpose (Objective) of the report. This will help the readers to judge the document's success. Use the introduction to provide the necessary background information, like the sequence of events leading to what you want the leader to know. Tell the readers how the discussion in the body of the report will be developed.

Objectives (1 page) (Objective writing is writing that you can verify through evidence and facts. If you are writing objectively, you must remain as neutral as possible through the use of facts, statistics, and research)

·         One general

·         Three specific

Body of the Report (17 pages)

This is where the issues outlined in the introduction are expanded. The development of the arguments must be logical, the evidence relevant and the reasoning clear.

Sections include:

Literature Review (15 pages) (All the data cited (quoted) with APAs style) (Not less the 10 references)
Results [Discussion of Results via analysis] (2 pages)

The information in the body of a report can be organized in one of the several ways, for example:

Sequential: where the most important facts are presented first; other points are expounded in order of diminishing importance.
Hierarchical: where general statements are worked down into subsidiary points.
Comparative: where one idea is compared with another.It is usually combined with another method of organization.

Conclusion (1 page)

The conclusion summarizes the findings and inferences in the body of the report. The conclusion must not contain any new idea that has not been previously mentioned in the report.

Recommendations (1 page)

After analyzing all the facts, the author of the report is the person most likely to be able to make recommendations on courses of action. However, you should always consider your relationship with the reader: if you have no authority to make recommendations, the reader may be hostile. In such cases, the recommendations should take a more advisory tone.

This section is sometimes dealt together with the Conclusions [Conclusions and Recommendations].

References (1 page)

Throughout the text, it will be necessary to refer to other documents. Readers can then turn to them for confirmation and further study. Indicate a reference by placing an appropriate mark in the text. (See the section on Literature Review.)

Note: It has to be sent to my e-mail. 

Relevant sources of information you can investigate on:

Google scholarGoogle booksErickRedalyc

APAs Style

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By6lAC0bNAN1V0FqV3VSdmx3b2c

Blessings and nice rest of the day!!!

Response Paper

Good afternoon guys; 

WHAT A RESPONSE PAPER IS AND IS NOT*

A response paper is your chance to communicate in writing your personal viewpoint and personal learning as they relate specifically to the book, essay, paper, article, etc. in question and the ideas and values contained therein. A good response paper will artfully make a connection between the subject at hand and your own experience. A response paper is intended to be a transformative experience. The text, the artifact alone, has no meaning; it is given meaning by the reader. You are being asked to transform the new experience into a context that is meaningful to you, born of the interaction of reader's and writer's meanings.

A response paper is not intended to be a comprehension test, a book review, (i.e. "I really enjoyed the...) or a rehashing of the content or story (i.e. this happened, and then that happened"). It should not be terse, constipated or "academic." Your reader is familiar with the book and is interested in discerning how deeply you have thought about the concepts, values, belief systems, and attitudes that exist at the heart of the work. A response paper is a heartfelt letter to the author, a conversation, a dialogue with the work, a great idea, the man, the woman behind the artifact. It is a personal statement of one's epistemology, even of one's own spiritual experience. It is relaxed, clear, uncensored.

When reading, that is dialoguing with the text, keep in mind that every author writes to make a point, to promote a position, a set of beliefs or values. Your first task in a response paper is to tell your reader what you think these are. This conveys to the reader not only that you have read the book, but how well you have analyzed its content. Your second task it to reflect on the point, positions, and values you have ascribed to the work. Spend time with the author's position and discern whether that perspective is aligned with your own experience or not. Whatever you discover in reflecting on the author's position and how it relates to your own position and values becomes the raw material for addressing the next task of the response paper.

Within the written paper, the third task is to describe the outcome of the process mentioned above. Specifically, address how the reading's perspective and you own interweave. Do they agree? Are they similar in some way? Are they at odds? What is the conflict? How has seeing things from the author's perspective changed (or reaffirmed) your own viewpoint? Tell why all of this is so.

In short, a good response paper answers the following questions:

l. What (meanings, values, etc.) was the author trying to promote?
2. What is my personal position relative to the author's?
3. How has reading and reflecting on this affected my lived world experience?

 *Quoted from "Eros and Psyche" by Tibor Baukal (Unpublished paper).

RESPONSE PAPER (Individual assignment)

It is due on Saturday, Oct. 14th, 2017

Elaboration of a response paper which synthesizes via an analytical perspective what the Communicative Language Teaching Approach is about. (Chapter three)

Guidelines:

The font to be used must be Times New Roman (14 for the title and 12 for the rest of the data).

The space between lines and paragraphs has to be 1.5.

It is a two-pages assignment. (No more than 2 pages)

Paragraphs must contain from 8 to 16 lines (no less than 8, no more than 16).

It has to be printed and given to Mr. Licona on the established date.

The cover page is not requested; your name and ID number can be written at the end of the last page.

Blessings and nice rest of the week!