Senior Seminar Winter 2011 ISP 4860 Section 001 (Bowen) Class 4, February 7 Course web site:

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 422 Agenda Tonight in 195 Manoogian  Rest of semester, too Signin, handouts (3) Pictures Late / returned / future assignments Research  Searching WSU research databases  Review, search terms  Research portfolio  Citing web pages and websites Content: consumption and waste Writing: organization

Status If you are not registered, you should call Howard Finley  Establish a record of your intentions Moodle Pictures Can do this tonight I , you edit profile on Moodle Picture of > New picture (Browse)

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 444 Late Assignments Your paper subtopic is due today via Moodle, several have not come in.  Not a good start.  See/call/ /IM me for help getting started  I have started a discussion topic on Moodle about this, if anyone wants online help (or wants to complain). Reminder – a component of the course grade comes for getting assignments done on time

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 45 Making Up Work Makeup Work page on course website Cannot get back credit for being on time Change in making up in-class work:  Much in-class work involves group discussion  To make this up, get a group of students together to do the discussion  Group discussion counts one letter grade for these assignments

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 466 Assignments Coming Up Today – bring Research Portfolio (notebook) February 14: Chapter Planner for Chapter 1, via Moodle February 21 – list of references via Moodle  Suggestion – do some each week February 28 – draft of Chapter 1 (overview Chapter)

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 47 Topic, Subtopic, etc. The Topic of the course (“main topic”) is The Human Footprint You will choose a subtopic to focus your paper on. You might choose, for example, Food.  If you narrow Food to Grains (a type of food) then “Grains” becomes your subtopic.  That is, there are no sub-subtopics If you narrowed two levels (e.g. to specific country), I need a fuller description of intent

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 48 Research - Databases Highly-recommended databases on purple handout  CQ Researcher  ABI/INFORM Global Online  Communication and Mass Media Complete  Ebrary (eBooks)  Expanded Academic ASAP  FirstSearch  GaleNet  LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe 8

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 49 Databases Highly-recommended databases on purple handout  Library Press Display  Netlibrary (eBooks)’  Opposing Viewpoint Center  SIRS Researcher on the Web (starter only) SOP textbook is also a research source, and lists other references as well Websites of scholarly organizations  9

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 410 Journals Science – journal of American Association for the Advancement of Science   fulltext available on line  Really technical articles often preceded by an easier-to-read commentary Scientific American   Full text not available without payment  But full text available through WSU libraries

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 411 Google Scholar Free or not?  References free on public Internet  Some full-text as well  Much restricted to paying customers, so doesn’t cost you to use full Google Scholar through WSU 11

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 412 Research - Searching Case-insensitive Yellow handout Boolean words: and, or, not  world and hunger: articles MUST have both words in it (not necessarily together or in that order)  world hunger: same as or – can have first only, second only, or both. Not necessarily in that order  “world hunger”: treated like one word 12

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 413 Searching Boolean words:  or is done before and water or drought and world means water and world, or drought and water Useful, on handout but not mentioned in class: * (wildcard)  fish* would get fish, fishing, fisherman, fishery, etc.  m*n, wom*n gets singular and plural 13

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 414 Searching - keywords For many of the topics here, adding “world” helps  world and food is more specific that food by itself, which would include recipes, for example  Would miss specific areas, but you can add these – world or africa and food Try the opposite (antonym)  world and drought has more articles than world and water  Also try world and “water shortage”  Or world and water or drought 14

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 415 Keywords Thesaurus lists synonyms and antonyms  (Roget’s is the standard thesaurus) Suggestions for search terms 15

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 416 Research - Portfolio Three-ring binder Dividers to separate sections – example sections  Syllabus  Study Tools: dates, names, definitions, etc.  Word hoard: Definitions of new words you learn.  Weekly Meetings: notes, handouts  Scrapbook: materials related to course including newspaper clips, media comments, INTERNET downloads, ads, cartoons, summaries of conversations, documents, essays, etc.  Final Research Paper: all materials related to papers such as drafts, database sheets and bibliography, notes, photocopies of readings, and all drafts.  Pouch for tools such as pens, markers, 3-hole punch, stapler, etc.  Place for 3½-inch floppy diskette labeled with your name, or a USB flash drive, any capacity

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 417 Research portfolio Comparison and discussion in groups Complete and turn in Portfolio self- assessment Will be repeated two more times during semester  March 7 (self-assessment)  April 4 (self-assessment and Instructor assessment) 17

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 418 Research – Citing the Web MLA standard – Everyday Writer Pp 383  Author (if listed)  Title / subtitle of page  Print publication information Any given information about print publication  Electronic publication information (. after each) Title of website, underlined, major words capitalized Version number Month and year 18

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 419 Research – Citing the Web MLA standard – Pp 383  Access information Most recent date viewed URL in, for homepage if more than one line, plus Path (list of links with >) Practice – group exercise using handout 19

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 420 Content – Consumption & Waste David’s dollar-bill economy  Spin the wheel faster & we all get richer  If everybody plays, wheel is bigger Cash – slow Bank accounts – faster Credit or electronic money – fastest, more of it, too US & rich world, we do this very well  Get what you want (will pay for) – better hope it’s good for you!  Shopping as entertainment 20

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class Panic Time “Wall Street bailout”  These financial firms give us the credit and move the money  If credit part of wheel stops: Wheel really slows down Eventually drags accounts down, too Money wheel eventually stops, almost  Saw this starting to happen in 2008  Not “too big to fail” but “to important to fail” 21

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 422 Consumption and Export US economy ($15T)  70% consumption  30% production  Very high imports China virtually reversed  30% consumption  70% production  Very high exports  Makes new currency to buy US debt Keeps prices for Chinese products low  High economic growth rate to make jobs for young and urbanizing population 22

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 423 US Economic Woes US is not growing fast enough to generate enough jobs – developed countries One reason: structural imbalance (70-30)  Too dependent on consumers and debt Housing crisis  People can’t sell houses and move to jobs  Value of houses depressed by foreclosed houses on market International effects worse 23

Economic Recovery Idea of stimulus is to “kick the wheel”  Every country did this  China did most, never really had a recession Did not remove stimulus quickly enough, now has inflation, may slow other economies We need to raise consumer demand to get producers to hire to meet demand But we can’t go back to  US needs to manufacture more of what we consume  But can we make that stuff? cheaply enough?

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 425 Consumption and Waste ROW (Rest Of World) wants this  Weak national economies, must export to rich world - globalization  Doing “our” jobs – OK if it is not too much  Enlarge the circle – we send them money  How do we get the money back to spend again? They invest it in us – T-bills (debt of US gov’t) Trade deficit – about $60B per month 25

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 426 Consumption and Waste Money wheel spins one way “Stuff” spins the other way  Packaging becomes waste immediately  Some stuff is not used, becomes waste quickly (food)  Everything that was in the package also becomes waste – just more slowly Running out of places to put the garbage Can we find another way to spin the wheel? 26

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 427 Does Stuff Make Us Happier? Up to a point, more stuff makes us happier But levels off So is there a better way? Virtue of individuals not enough

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 428 Consumption and Waste Do we care about ROW?  Yes – foreign aid (but smaller than most in US think)  One reason for wanting to help poor nations develop is their health  Poverty  poor health (often)  Hunger makes it worse  Leads to high population growth, eventually endangers us, too 28

“Senior Seminar and Unrest” 2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 429

Background Factors Fast population growth (young) High education levels for young (expectations) Poor economy (centralized) Large food expenditures (world spike) Chart in NYT article on course website 2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 430

Spike in World Food Prices Factors:  Poor harvests Floods Droughts Global Warming?  Rising demand Population Prosperity (India and China) oIncreasing food, especially meat consumption 2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 431

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 432 Trade Barriers All countries put up trade barriers in certain areas  US claims it is for free trade but subsidizes agriculture Food aid generous, but oMuch must be spent on food from US oWe subsidize exports of food Result: farmers in poor countries cannot compete with low (subsidized) food from US International trade talks – agreed to keep on talking 32

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 433 Sovereign Wealth Funds Another effect of US economic unbalance Sovereign Wealth Funds – the accounts built up by our international creditors who are not market-based  China  Saudi Arabia  Russia Will they use that wealth against us?  Probably more subtle effects

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 434 Writing: Organization Chapter Level Title: Chapter number (1, 2, 3, etc) and descriptive title (describes content of that Chapter) Introduction (roadmap) Body Conclusion (review, conclude or wrap up, so what?)

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 435 Organization: Within Body Organization:  Treat topics one by one in some order – have a plan, don’t just hop around. Minimize repetition  Examples of orders that work: a.Start with a specific example or story, then go to what that is an example of (generalize) b.General to specific c.Historical order, order of development d.Logical order – give background before or as it is needed e.Combinations – a then b, for example  A new topic requires a new paragraph.  Smooth transitions to prepare the reader and show that your thinking is under control, not just random.

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 436 Outlining An outline can be a quick way to organize your topic.  Not required except for Chapter 1  I used to outline, but with word processors I often just shuffle stuff around Organization in-class assignment (groups)  Get card pack  Groups can go somewhere else – 30 minutes  Turn in report on next slide

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 437 Writing: Organization Chapter Planner on course website has helped some Required for Chapter 1 of your Paper next week  As of last week, you had all of the information you need to write Chapter 1 OK if you want to add references, later  Turn in via Moodle After this, optional

2/7/11ISP 4860 Winter 2011 Class 438 Group Reports - Organization Each group should turn in a report with the following information (by number) 1.List the group members (first and last names) 2.Take the cards out of the envelope and put them in the best order. What is the best order of the cards (by number)? 3.Of the styles of organization listed in class (or including others that you may be aware of, what organization scheme did you used in 2, and why? 4.Pick one other style of organization and describe how you might reorganize the material on the cards to make that other style work. You can leave once you turn in this report