Collaborative Annotated Bib.
This is a collaboraitively written bibliography. The same annotated bibliography can be found on their pages Collaborative Annotated Bibliography
Partners:Kelly, Kaitlin , Kong, Michelle Y., Bosworth, Jacqueline L.
1. Berry, Wendell. "The Pleasures of Eating." Center for Ecoliteracy 1990: Web. Mar 2011.
<http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/pleasures-eating>.
People are so concerned with speed. Everything in the world revolves around how fast things are. When it comes to food, many consumers don't ask questions. All people are looking to do is eat food quickly between a busy schedule. People aren't sure as to where the food comes from, what industries control the products, how they produce food, if the food is from a farmer and where the farms are even located. This article is suggesting that people become more involved in knowing more about the food they are purchasing. They suggest that families go back to traditional home cooked meals. Learn more about food industry and what you can do to better your purchase. Go directly to a farmer if possible. Keep informed.
2. Brown, Cynthia. "Conducting the Interview." Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing
Oral History. (1988): 31-48. Print.
"Whom would you like to interview? What are you interested in finding out? Do you know of anyone who might want to tell their story?" (31)
"If you want to write something historical, something about how people use to live, or how to do something that is no longer done by many, you should choose an older person." (32)
-Don't lose clarity
-Focus on possibly one specific moment of the elder's life and then branch off from there. don't try to confuse the interviewee to much; especially if they are older and forgetting a lot of their past.
-start with a character sketch: someone you would like or dislike to learn more about just to get a better insight of their life, career, history, etc. ie. police officer, teacher, lawyer, juvenile delinquent, etc.
-or possibly even pertaining to a culture thing of "how-to-do-it" routine or "how-it-use-to-be" story.
-interview a person who actually lived through the event or era during that time.
-base your interview on something that interests you.
-don't interview for too long at a time because you will find that you get tired and start drowning out all the important facts. break it into sections for each interview.
-view the questions you are going to ask before the day of the interview to help prepare yourself.
-make lists of paraphrased notes
-another good way to prepare is to write down the reasons why you chose this person to interview. what is it about this person that made you pick them?
Herb Kohl - helped protagonist set up interview to make biography of Mrs.Clark's life.
Mrs Septima Clark- segregation. South Carolina, 81 years old, 15 hours of interviewing with protagonist
Protagonist - segregation. California to South Carolina, likes to rite biographies
Since the protagonist was willing and "eager" to listen to Mrs. Clark's past lifetime during the Civil Right's Movement, this would allow her to open up and feel like someone actually cares about the events that she had to deal with in the past and make her let her emotions come out. Only when someone becomes entirely comfortable and sincere about an event and the person that they are telling it to will the real truths and feelings come out. This would be a great way for the protagonist to capture the best and truths of Mrs. Clark's feelings of her past.
Why protagonist chose her:
- in civil rights movement
- black
- woman
- good friend got him the interview
- Mrs. Clark was more that willing to
- went to highlander folk school
- she's a teacher
- grew up black during system of segregation
- she figured out fast ways to help teach adults how to read
- she's a leader in social change
Make sure you practice a loud with somebody before te actual day of the interview. It is always good to use this practice day as if was really the person you are interviewing because anything can happen unsuspectingly and you don't want to freeze or make yourself look bad. Always be confident, relaxed, and sure of yourself.
3. Clandinin, Jean, and Michael Connolly. "What Do Narrative Inquirers Do?." Narrative
Inquiry. (2000): 48-62. Print.
This reading seems very informing of the different writing styles out there. In the example of the story, this is my favorite part. “We earlier created a metaphor ofa three-dimensional space, in which narrative inquirers would find themselves, using a set of terms that pointed them backward and forward, inward and outward, and located them in place. We saw these dimensions as directions or avenues to be pursued in a narrative inquiry; "In this piece, the author seems to raise many questions and challenge writers with their pieces. He uses many well-explained examples and situations that support his views. His story of the Chinese man explained how a person's writing and perspective changes often. I especially liked this piece from the reading; "As Michael read and reread Ming Fang's, Shiao's, and Wei's stories of growing up in China, he came to understand something of how that time and place shaped their lives and the stories they tell of them. The more Ming Fang worked to understand the relationship between her memories of her life and the landscape on which the lives of the three Chinese women were played out, the more Michael realized how limited his knowing of Long Him was, and how what little he did know was milled by the peculiar cultural qualities of his childhood landscape. In her dissertation, Ming Fang traveled back to a place where her stories first unfolded. Though Michael too traveled back to a place where his stories first unfolded, he realized there was no Chi nese place in his story of Long Him. Long Him was, in Michael's story, almost wholly constructed from Michael's experience of him as he ap peared on Michael's rural Canadian landscape." (54)
4. Clark, B. (2011, March 31). Food Service Director . (M. Kong, Interviewer).
After settling on a topic question for our collaborative group project, our group instantly got started on scheduling our interviews with two different lunch directors in Glassboro, New Jersey. With this appointment, we collected interview questions as a group and sent one member to discuss the information regarding bought lunches from the cafeteria with the head director of food services. After interviewing Beth Clark, the head director of food services, I learned a lot of great information about school lunches and the benefits the school's lunches provide over brought lunches from home. As our representative, our group member, Michelle Kong, interview Beth Clark (director of food services in the Glassboro public school district, and concluded that bought lunches were a lot more nutritious for students compared to brought lunches from home. The interview consisted of numerous questions and responses that ultimately swayed our conclusion to bought lunches being a lot more healthier than any meals brought from home. (Clark, 2011).
5. Fontaine, Sheryl and Susan M. Hunter. Collaborative Writing in Composition Studies.
Thompson Wadsworth, 2006. 1-36.
The piece begins by the well known scene as the Burkean parlor named after Kenneth Burke, a philosopher. This example explains the reasoning of conversation and word of thought. Your experiences and perspectives of life influence your train of thought and responses to what others say. This is an everyday occurrence. Understanding language and knowledge is important in social and collaborative practices. This is crucial in the understanding of writing collaboratively…I feel this is the main emphasis in this piece. We do not realize we are working collaboratively every day of our lives. Entering conversations and talking with others is a spoken collaborative conversation. Before entering in you need to realize who your audience is and from there decide how you will speak with them. Throughout this piece many scenarios are given in order to help the reader clearly identify with collaboration on a personal level. I feel that the scenarios given were helpful examples because I was able to put myself in the situation at hand. Language is not just spoken but written. Burkean explains this in great detail after denoting his individual situations. In collaborative writing certain tasks are divided where then the group is split and the members work individually, usually. The end result of taking the different pieces and combing it to one is the tricky part. People look down on writers believing they are lonely souls who write for themselves. This is obviously untrue. My classmates and I (especially my group) are outspoken and eager to help each other with our writings as a whole. By combing ideas and thoughts our writing flourished. This would not be the case if we worked by ourselves. Collaborative writing is great in the long run: saves time, less stressful and more ideas come into play when members of the group talk aloud.
6. Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2006. 1-57. Print.
This piece seeks to answer the questions of how to save both our money as well as our planet. Pollan first examines that the source of most of our mass-produced calories is corn syrup. He dissects each ingredient of a fast-food meal to show how much corn Americans ingest. Pollan also looks into organic farming, asking whether or not it really good for the planet. He does this by examining a meal made only from food bought at Whole Food. Pollan then eats a meal made up of only food he caught and made for himself. The goal of The Omnivore’s Dilemma seems to seek a change in the way we think about politics and the food we consume.
7. Qualley, Donna. Turns of Thought: Teaching Composition as Reflexive Inquiry.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997. 1-30. Print.
<http://www.sabatinomangini.com/uploads/4/5/9/6/4596832/turns_of_thought_--_donna_qualley.pdf>
This piece is about how students view their writing. A good point is that writers should be able to look back at their work and get a sense of themselves. Donna Qualley is stating that the writer should be able to recognize the process of their writing and how minds formulate thoughts. This article also reviews the process of both integrating our own personal beliefs and experiences as well as interpreting the facts. A writer is a multi-tasker.
8. Reilly, P. (2011, March 31). Special Education. (J. Bosworth, Interviewer).
The following person interviewed, Ms. Pam Reilly, works at Durand Academy and Community Servies. Durand is a private special education school consisting of children from the ages of 5-16. Pam teaches a class of 9 students ranging from ages 9-13. This particular school does not have a cafeteria, so the children must pack their lunches every day. The interview was focused on whether or not the children seem to eat healthy.
9. Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Eric starts off the piece explaining how the beautiful sight of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado are more than what people see. Borrowed beneath the mountain range lies a military base. He uses this to bring up the fact that if there was a nuclear attack or something huge happened to the world where the human race didn't live, whatever would be inside of these mountains would be like a time-capsule. Schlosser explains that almost every night, the Domino delivery man is sent into this base. Therefore leading to these food packages being left behind for proof of how our society ate. He then goes on to discuss how popular McDonald is and exactly what their profits are, how much American's spend on fast food, and how McDonalds has affected employment around America. Also explained is how conformity is used in the fast food industry. It's very true that most people like routine and normality. If every fast food place serves the same thing world-wide, it's easier for people to conform because they know what they do and do not like off of that same menu.
10. Schneider, Stephen. Good, Clean, Fair: the Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement.
College English, Volume 70, Number 4, March 2008.
This piece goes into in-depth detail of the Slow Food Movement and the industry it has developed in to. Ultimately, this movement lead to the creation of the fast food industry and gastronomy. In this article, the Schneider seems to be persuading people to put in effort with “good, clean, and fair food movement”. Rather than causing such globalization with processed and risky foods, he seems sincere with focusing on the cultural and biological aspects of food production and healthier eating all together. The only way to get a win-win situation out of all of this is to give the consumers more nutritious and beneficial reasoning for eating.
