What is an annotated bibliography?

What is an annotated bibliography? Why do you have to write one for this class?

 An annotated bibliography is set up the same way as a regular bibliography in the sense that it is alphabetical. The annotated part is a summary and/or evaluation. This would be important because it will explain that even though the title of a source does not sound scholarly, we can back it reflect the truth in the summary. The annotation can also include a reflection to shoe how it shapes your argument. What is confusing if it should include all or part of these. Should I include a summary, assessment and reflection of every source or just the few that seem to really need it? A summary is easy, even including an assessment should not be hard. It is including the argument that would be annoying. Sometimes I do not know how it can be attached my argument until after I put it together. I know it does not sound proper but it is true. I can relate it back to my topic but not always my argument. The annotation is also great to understand which source to follow when you find something interesting in another person’s sources.

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Portfolio

Wednesday, October 31: Find at least one image that you would use in a presentation about your topic and cite it correctly. Also find an additional resource you’d use in your research project (it can be anything!) and include an annotation summarizing the article and how you plan to use it in your research project.




Ciliberto, Kayla. "Bullying." 2012. PNG file.
I edited it today but took this picture years ago.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. "Bullying Definition | StopBullying.gov." Home | StopBullying.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2012. <http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/definition/index.html>.

On this government website they detail what bullying is, types of bulling, frequency of bullying and where and when bullying occurs. This site gives great details in an organized way that is beneficial for our project and they cite statistics to back up what they are claiming.

CRAWFORD, NICOLE. "New ways to stop bullying." American Psychological Association (APA). N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2012. <http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct02/bullying.aspx>.

This is a trusted website I adore. The APA is wonderful. This article is from a bullying expert (the author is just reporting on it) and have peer-reviewed research. All of this information is useful for seeing long term effects bullying can have both on victims and the aggressor.  
"Nansel and colleagues also found that:

• Bullying occurs most frequently from sixth to eighth grade, with little variation between urban, suburban, town and rural areas.
• Males are more likely to be bullies and victims of bullying than females. Males are more likely to be physically bullied, while females are more likely to be verbally or psychologically bullied.
• Bullies and victims of bullying have difficulty adjusting to their environments, both socially and psychologically. Victims of bullying have greater difficulty making friends and are lonelier.
• Bullies are more likely to smoke and drink alcohol, and to be poorer students.
• Bully-victims--students who are both bullies and recipients of bullying--tend to experience social isolation, to do poorly in school and to engage in problem behaviors such as smoking and drinking."
  
  
   

10/28

I am having a lot of trouble getting the link to work for this blog.

As a citizen of the nation of Facebook (or "Facebookistan"), what are your rights and responsibilities? How does this podcast--and a larger discussion of social media, which includes using blogs--fit within this class?

I honestly hate that this is an hour long podcast. This shouldn't be a podcast. It should be more of a video. I have seen documentaries of this topic that are more effective at giving this same information in detail.

Facebook can give you all the information you ask for it? I didn't know that! That would be cool if it was in USA. Mine would be thousands of pages long because I'm an avid Facebook user.

Facebookistan? Seriously? You don't have to have a Facebook. So why are they whining?  It is my right to choose to have one. I have many friends that use fake names on Facebook. Facebook has violated rights making people very upset. I realized this and made sure to hide certain things from people. I am very careful about that. I add many people on Limited Profile list. It is my responsibility to choose what I display on Facebook and what sort of applications and games have access to my information. I do not allow applications to post on my behalf without my permission. I do not allow applications to have access to my pictures and basic information.

This podcast relates to our class in the sense that Facebook is taking our information "without our permission". Like I mentioned in class, the information I post for my friends to see, I don't care if other people see or use. I posted it carelessly. It didn't matter to me to share it with people. It does make it easier for plagiarism. It makes it easier to steal information from many people and it makes filter bubbles more predominant too because it knows location and facial recognition.

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Filter Bubbles

A filter bubble is a website's way of catering to the user's preferences. It is not just in search results like Google but in Facebook too. You do not have to search anything but when you start liking photos, when you start showing preferences, Facebook will take full advantage of it. Thinking about it, filter bubbles like this is brilliant marketing because they aren't treating everyone the same. They are taking your individual preferences and applying them to make your internet experience better.
A potential personal drawback would be is that you do not get a healthy balance of things you like and dislike and things Facebook and Google does not think is important. For example: I was on my Facebook page and I like to keep up with people from my high school senior class. I like knowing who is pregnant, engaged, married, etc. The problem is that my senior class is full of people I did not necessarily get along. Just because I didn't get along with them, doesn't mean I want to find out a girl in my class is pregnant until she is showing in photos. The majority of my news feed is pictures, which explains it. I don't like that Facebook hides statuses from me that I do not choose to be hidden. 
In academia, filter bubbles can really damper research. I didn't realize that there were so many factors that went into a simple search. It sort of bothers me honestly. If I try to tell someone how I found a source "Oh, I was on Google and I searched these words then clicked on the third link" I do not want them to find a different link. It makes internet navigation more difficult and frustrating. What if Google acknowledge that the person is a history buff but that person is doing a paper on a current event? Filter bubbles can really hinder presearching and maybe even research itself.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism, to me, is claiming an idea that belongs to someone else and claiming it as your own. It may not be just the idea of someone else, it could be a strange fact that wouldn't be considered common information. Like the average United States Citizen life span is

male: 76.05 years

female: 81.05 years

That would have to be cited (cia.gov).

Things you can do to prevent plagiarism is

A) Understand that the sources used are not intended to be used as direct quotes that stand on their own. A quote needs to support your argument, not make it for you.

B) Do not look at your sources when writing your paper. If you aren't looking, there is a very small chance you'll phrase it the same way but STILL give credit in the end.

What surprised me:

In elementary school, middle school and even high school I did a lot of word switching and even copying and pasting. As a kid though, I think my teachers knew I was not intending on stealing from the authors. I did credit them as a source at the very end in my Works Cited page but not in the text like I should have. Other Plagiarisms almost seem picky picky picky. Metaphor plagiarism? That sounds, to me, like something that could be done accidentally depending on how you learn the material.


Good night all,
Kayla Ciliberto


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Rhetorical Devices

I was not here Monday for personal reasons and had to go to tutoring Tuesday during the presidential debate. So instead I watched this:

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/wed-october-17-2012-tyler-perry

I am going to be honest when I say I am not sure what I am doing but here we go:

• Charles Krauthammer (spelling?) is used as an "Appeal to Authority" rhetoric when he said there were low expectations for Obama.
• Romney sitting on a bar stool during the debate because he is Mormon and doesn't spend a lot of time in bars. "Yes, only people who go to bars know how to sit in stools." I suppose that is an Ad Hominem.
• The idea that anyone on Obama's team would hide information about the terrorist attack on Libya is "offensive" would be an Appeal to Emotion I think. Not in gaining sympathy but to appeal anger toward Romney for saying what we all know is true, "our government is corrupt".
• The idea that the culture of violence is caused by children not having a mom and dad in the household... A CLEAR example of False Cause. Though in my public speaking class, we did talk about diversion as a great alternative when you can't answer a question.

That is just four I saw early.

Ciao,
Kayla Ciliberto

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10/10

My research question is: What are the long-term effects of bullying?

My argument will focus on both the positive and negative aspects of the human experience of being bullied (can you tell I took humanistic psychology?). Negatively, I can argue a sort of mild PTSD depending on how traumatic the bullying experience is. Positively, I can mention that bullying can be humbling.

I can, if necessary, talk about how to resolve the negative effects. This part would be the most interesting for me but it would be time consuming. I would have to research in a few weeks what psychologists have been studying for decades: breaking down the self esteem in to parts and boosting each part individually.

Other kinds of information we could use would include specific examples to reveal how “real” bullying is. Not just elementary teasing, but social aggression in its extreme cases as to gather my audience’s attention. Extreme cases involving verbal aggression, physical aggression and emotional trauma. Those would most likely be found in newspapers and websites dedicated to the victims or even videos. There are plenty of youtube videos about bullying but those cannot be validated as true. I know of makeup artists that can create bruises and scars just as easily I can photo-edit it.


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10/8

   My major discipline in GALILEO is psychology. Upon searching for one I have never worked in before I realized that many of the sources use ProQuest and EBSCOhost. Both databases I know I’ve used before. I found one call “web of knowledge” it is a Thomas Reuters website that is apparently “Is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals” according to their about us page (http://thomsonreuters.com/about/). I searched “baseball” since I am currently writing about my Steve Blass Disease project. You would never guess what one of the key words in the title of the first link was “Decision taking under pressure: Evidence on football manager dismissals in Argentina and their consequences”. Football? No, I said baseball. 

What is kind of funny is that the seventh source mentioned the word baseball and the nifty database highlighted the word baseball for me. That could be useful during research.

The difference between subject specific databases and the Discovery tool is that the subject specific database is great for something directly relating that field. Like baseball does not directly relate to psychology. If I searched something like PTSD, a psychology database would be preferred over a literature database. If I wanted to search baseball I would choose the Discovery tool because I could use information that could fall under any category (history of baseball, baseball in the media, etc).

10/3

Scholarly:

ADAMS, FRANK D., and GLORIA J. LAWRENCE. "Bullying Victims: The Effects Last Into College." American Secondary Education 40.1 (2011): 4-13. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Oct. 2012.

The following terms to describe the characteristics and lasting effects of bullying: safety, exclusion, isolation, abuse, alienation, lonely and a rite of passage.

I plan to use this source as a major reference because it is a comprehensive study about the lasting effects of bullied people.

Popular:

Bhanoo, Sindya N. "Effects of Early Bullying Don't Last in Birds." New York Times 28 June 2011: 3. TOPICsearch. Web. 4 Oct. 2012.

This is an article that says that birds that were bullied by their hatchling siblings showed no difference in aggression when intruders invaded their nests.

This is a counter argument that could possibly be used to break down my argument about bullying, but I can argue that humans are more sophisticated than birds. These birds are going off instinct. Parents protecting their children wouldn’t differ if they were bullied at a young age, so it is not surprising a bird would be similar.

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10/1

GALILEO is an acronym for Georgia Library Learning Online. This I did not know. GALILEO is an online library, not a database. GALILEO contains a large variety of databases though. The hierarchy goes Articles within Journals within Databases within Disciplines within GALILEO similar to how the library organizes books within bookshelves within call numbers within a library. Databases are defined as “a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer” by dictionary.com. It organizes information typically by related topics such as social sciences or medicine. GALILEO is an excellent online resource when looking for sources about a topic and do not have the time to stay in the library all night hunting down a relevant book on a very narrow topic. For example: I am doing a research project on the “Steve Blass Disease”, but the official book about Steve Blass’ “disease” is not available by the library, is not recognized as a real disease (because it is not) and the synonyms are not attracting large peer-reviewed results. For those who do not know, Steve Blass was a pitcher for the Pittsburg Pirates who after winning the World Series, suddenly could not pitch. It is a curious phenomenon that I have to write a 10 page paper on for my Sports Psychology class. By using GALILEO, I found plenty more reliable sources. GALILEO has many uses and is beneficial for any kind of research.

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Research Portfolio 1

Post at least two books related to your topic including citations and an annotation summarizing each book (1-2 sentences) and how you plan to use it in your research project (2-3 sentences).

Thompson, David, and Tiny Arora. Bullying: effective strategies for long-term improvement. London: Routledge Falmer, 2002. Print.

Summarizing: Over ten years of researching bullying, this book is designed for faculty within the school administration and researchers determined to tackle the issue of bullying head on. The authors examine how bullying begins, the impact of bullying on the victimized child and how the extent of bullying in the classroom can be reliably measured and assessed while explaining how to set up anti-bullying initiatives which will maintain their effectiveness over years.

In my research: The section on the effects of the victimized child would be most beneficial for my topic of the long-lasting (psychological) effects of bullying. This book is more about prevention, but there is a reason to prevent it. I hope they elaborate on that reason.

Kevorkian, Meline M., and Robin Antona. 101 facts about bullying: what everyone should know. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008. Print.

Summarizing: The authors believe the in order to prevent bullying: everyone must know the myths and facts of bullying.

In my research: This would be an incredible book to use because it reveals how bullying is not taken seriously in school. It covers each topic in an organized and easy-to-follow kind of way. It even has specific chapters on victims and bullies.

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