English 330 Agenda – Week 2

In Class

Do:

• Library Research Session (Additional Sources for Archive Dive)
  • From Today’s Session:
    • “Secret” Primary Sources Database  (click on 20^th Century tab; scroll down to Vietnam)
    •  oral history Vietnam (as a Google search)
    • television broadcasts Vietnam war (as a Google search)
    • radio broadcasts Vietnam (as Google search)
    • Library Databases:
    • America: History and Life
    • LA Times Historical (newspapers)

    • NY Times Historical (newspapers)

      Vietnam TV

      http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA05/burnette/thesis/home.html

      American Archive of Public Broadcasting

      http://americanarchive.org/

      The Media & the Vietnam War – Wellesley College—has links to sources on both TV and radio broadcasts

      http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/media.htm

 

• Update Class Roster Contact Info
• Refine Archive Dive Proposals
• Present Proposals to Class (2 minutes + 1 minute feedback – Elevator Pitch)

• Review:
  • Course Calendar
  • Archive Dive (Working Draft)
  • Research Journal (New Dates)
  • Reflective VoiceThread Vlog (New Dates)

Before Next Class

• Read:
  • Library Sources for Archive Dive
  • They Say/I Say Preface and Intro (available at at The Cove Bookstore)
  • Optional Reading: Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills
• Write:
  • Working Draft of Archive Dive Essay
    • Compose in CI Docs in this folder
  •  Research Journal Update
    • Should have Photo/Profile + 2 Entries by the day before class in Week 3)