Process+Journal


 * Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || This project was in my opinion extremely fun for me and good for me to get a better understanding of my hobby.
 * **Date** || **List the**
 * **5/7/12** || Worked on understanding of project || I was thinking about doing something that had to do with baseball and the negro/white leagues. ||
 * **5/8/12** || WI worked on finding resources that would help me find with my project. || Today I have chosen to do the actual topic of the Negro leagues of baseball instead of the negro/white leagues. I also though while going through the different that I was able to find only a couple of reasonably good resources. ||
 * **5/10/12** || I have completed one fqi sheet as of now. || By using the resource [|__http://www.nlbpa.com/history.html__] I was able to complete one of my fqi sheets very easily as well as getting the genres easily. I think finding the genres is so easily for me because of the many examples of genres we got by doing in class examples. ||
 * **5/16/12** || Today I have completed another fqi sheet. || I used another resource while scrolling through the internet and came across this:[|__http://www.cnnsi.com/features/1997/blackbaseball/frame.html__]. Seems like a very trust worthy resource and has a lot of facts as well as history. ||
 * **5/18/12** || Today I have been able to complete three out of the five fqi sheets needed. || I first though that it would be easy to find all these references but it has honestly been hard trying to find the ones that are useable. ||
 * **5/22/12** || Today I have reviewed my fqi sheets and decided on what genres I will do for my project. || I believe I was inspired to do this topic because of the fact that I love baseball and I just want to learn more and more about it. ||
 * **5/28/12** || By today I have looked and found many graphics that pertain to my facts. || Finding the graphics is somewhat east but now finding what to do with them is hard, I am also concerned about the amount of time I have left but I'll have to deal with it. ||
 * **5/30/12** || Today I finished a 6-room poem draft for my topic. || I believe by using this method as writing a poem it will be easier and a less strenuous ||
 * **6/1/12** || Finished my 6-room poem as of today and will be posting it soon. || I honestly think that this is one of the better poems I have written as of now because I understand it's meaning in a way like no other. ||
 * **6/5/12** || I have finished my Dear Reader Writing Draft as of now and am working on all other Genres needed. || I have decided to finish every genre for my project by thursday (if needed) so I won't be caught up in work all night on thursday night. ||
 * **6/7/12** || I have now completed my contract genre, and finished my repitend. || **For this last reflection, you should choose**

Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? I chose my topic because I was entirely interested in this topic before we even knew about this project, so this project was just my outlet to work on something that interested me. I am surely still happy with my choice of topic just because nothing ever gets boring in this topic, everything is interesting.

What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? I had such goals as getting good citations, trustful sites to get information from, and to finish my Fqi sheets on time. I believe that I met all of my topics easily because I found all my sites used as being trustworthy in the information I gathered.

How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? I feel that I collected not a quantity of information but more of a quality of information which in my opinion is much better. It was somewhat easy finding most of the information, but eventually I had gotten stuck on what sites I could use that had information I could actually use.

What did you learn about the research process from this project? From the research part of the project I learned about the sites that can be true with their information about my topic and the best way to avoid any plagiarism in writing.
 * four** **of the nine questions listed here:**
 * 1) **Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?**
 * 2) **What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those?**
 * 3) What facts about your topic interested you most? Did this kind of project help you get a better understanding of your topic than you might have with a more traditional kind of research paper? If so, why and in what ways did it help?
 * 4) **How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?**
 * 5) **What did you learn about the research process from this project? Consider: the best places to find certain kinds of information; what sources are most credible; the best order for conducting your investigation; how to record information and sources; anything else that you learned or that confirmed what you already knew.**
 * 6) What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover?
 * 7) What criteria did you use in deciding on the genres to include in your paper? What piece was the hardest or most challenging to write? Why? The most fun or interesting? Why?
 * 8) How did you decide on the organization of the pieces into a cohesive whole? Consider not only organization but use of transitional devices and packaging.
 * 9) What did you learn by working with your peers on revising and editing? Did they give you helpful advice? What was most helpful to you? What kinds of things did you learn from reading their pieces? ||

Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

Total Process Journal Points /50 points

_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.
 * Score A Date 5/27**

_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. _5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. _10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.
 * Score B ___ Date 6/4__**

___8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted.__ ___5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors.__ ___ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring.__

__**Score C**__ **_20 points** **Date 6/8 30 points** _ 10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. _5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. Plus _10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _5-6 points Students answered some of the final reflection questions. The responses answered the questions with little elaboration or insight. _ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.