Research Paper; final Draft

This week is the week we've all been waiting for, in which we'll present our final paper. During the conference, I received very important advices of how to improve my paper, which included that I was missing the importance of ethnicity in the Middle-class families. Another part in which I modified a little was my conclusion, in which I was missing a clear explanation of where is the Middle-class heading, information that was previously said in my last paragraph, but I had to repeat over the conclusion. Overall, this class taught me a lot of how to organize ideas, and important techniques that, somehow will be applied in my future classes, thank you Ginger!

Week #8 Research paper FIRST DRAFT

So this week was the week we finally got to write our paper, I found it a little hard at first because I didn't knew how to started, but as I checked my notes, I found out that I had a solid thesis, here's a copy of My First Draft of the paper,  for any suggestions of what I need to fix please comment bellow

Work Cited

This week's task for class was to Work cite our sources, I've unsuccessfully gather enough material for my essay, but I have 5 good sources that I'm definitely using on my paper. My task now is to identify what other two sources might be useful complete the assignment before the rough draft is due, so I'll have another tough week ahead of me. Here's my Work Citation

Week #7 Outline

I'm a couple of days late with my outline since I was catching up with the review of other of my assignments, but I finally cached up with a lot of my work, here's a copy of the outline rough draft, there's the "Health" section that I'm not sure about keeping, but I' decided to leave it until I do further research on it.

Review Week

The task due for this week was to find three quotes from our sources that we might use in our final paper, but due that my proposal was not specific enough, I had to re-make a research proposal, and also look for new, reliable, and more specific sources to my topic, here's my Revised Annotated Bibliography

week #5 bibliography

This past week We did not had any class meetings, but it was a busy week gathering sources for our bibliographies. here's a link to my bibliography with 5 sources.

week #4 Research Proposal

During the past week the class was told to create a research proposal that will give us a sense of start planning our research paper; the proposal is basically consisted on writing a working thesis in which we explain what is the subject in which we'll be focusing; the methods, or resources that we'll use to make the research; the purpose of the research, or basically why people should read your essay, and the audience who we're addressing it to. Here is a copy of my Research proposal in a word document, I hope it helps.

Week #2 let the research begin

During the second week preparing the research paper, I had my ideas more set than the previous week; after having a hard time choosing from one of the topics, I finally decided to focus my research paper about the middle class, since I'm very interested on cultures and the variation between different societies. My focus of research during this week was to gather a 'big picture" of what my paper will be about, so I decided to surf over the web for key terms such as what middle class is; and middle class has a lot to do with the economic position of a person.I also looked over for it's beginnings, that comes back from Europe during the middle ages. What makes a person part of the middle class was another question that came up to my mind, so I had to go over it; I am not satisfy enough with what I found, but the information that I found gave me a broad picture of an approximate estimate number of how much money someone should earn to be considered to live a "middle class life". Last but not least, another topic came up in one of my researches; the industrial revolution. I have a feeling this was a big even that affected the course of the middle class, so I'll just keep it in mind to introduce a portion of the industrial revolution on my drafts as I keep learning and finding out important fact that will support my paper. Here are the different links I've used, I hope it's helpful for somebody else researching this fascinating part of history!

Middle class definition
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?rd=1&word=middle+class

Middle class range/ disagreement
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/23/how-perceptions-of-the-middle-class-keep-shifting/

Middle class rise (europe/ middle ages)
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/notes/mid-clas.htm

Industrial revolution
http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolution/IREffects.html

week #1 Greetings/ first Ideas

Good evening fellow students! I hope everybody liked our first week back to school. So I'm aware that we have this big essay that's due at the end of the course, so far a lot of the topics seems very interesting to research on, but there's two in special that caught my attention; one of the topics is under the category of National Politics & Society, and it's related to "middle class", is it in raise? who are the people considered "middle class"? and an analysis of the factors that make this people part of the "middle class". My second option is from Psychology, and it is a comparison and contrast of a feminist psychological idea against an idea that's mostly supported by males, or the option of the "American dream", which will involve the related experience of my family's reasons to move to America, and how our story relates to others, based on a particular pattern of immigration. I think I'm interested on this specific topics because of the points they touch, and how they reflect my viewpoint of society and life style. I hope I come up with a final decision by this upcoming week to start up with my paper, good luck to everybody!