team4-v&d4.1+research+plan

=Team 4 Research Plan= due on Friday 11/21 || Thurs 12/11 ||
 * = **Schedule** ||= **Due Date** ||
 * Find a topic || done ||
 * Determine type of research || done ||
 * Draft a working thesis || done ||
 * Start a working bibliography || Monday 11/17 ||
 * Find, Read & Evaluate sources || Wed 11/19 ||
 * Create annotated bibliography || Wed 11/19 ||
 * Summarize and paraphrase sources || Wed 11/19 ||
 * Review goals and research || Tues 11/18 9PM (chat) ||
 * Plan organization (Flow gram? Outline?) || Tues 11/18 9PM (chat) ||
 * Write first draft || mostly done by Thursday 11/20
 * Decide what material from sources to use || Wed 12/3 ||
 * Review draft || Wed 12/3 to
 * Revise, edit & check formatiing || Thurs 12/11 ||
 * Submit final draft || Dec. 12 - Friday ||

[|4 Mini Lecture 1]

(Note, the sections/items marked in red below need to be answered by your team)

statement of purpose, audience, and scope
Argument : Your purpose is to make a claim about

The benefits of online dating Audience : college students. . . but what segment of this bigger group? Unmarried adults Scope: What kind of research : What kind of research will you do? (Note: They can be mostly internet but from a variety of sources--i.e., library data bases and other academic sites, institutional web sites, blogs, etc. Sources must be proven reliable.) First hand interviews, academic sites, blogs social and dating service sites

How long is the paper : 12 pages How many sources : 8 What steps are required by your instructor in advance of the final draft? :

Research plan (4V&D1) 4.1Rough draft Peer Reviews Synthesis of peer reviews (4Hdbk Ex) Integrating Sources Ex (4V&D2)

Work schedule chart
see above

Research needs statement--answer these questions (see p170):
How much information do you need? at least 8 sources Are particular kinds of sources required? Yes. What will yours be? first hand interviews, journals/magazines, academic papers How current should the information be? Why? As current as possible in regards to magazines, journals and academic papers. No older than four to five years. However first hand interviews, while they should take place within the time frame of the assignment, can deal with people who have tried online services later than five years ago. We want the most current and up to date information so that we are writing an accurate depiction of online dating as it exists today. What are some of the opposing points of view to your argument? Online dating can be expensive and there is always the possibility of connecting with someone unstable through a dating website.

Working thesis (use the following form from sec. 16d):
Topic: Online Dating Research question: Why do some people find mates through online services and others choose more traditional methods? Working thesis: Even though There are some dishonest people, meeting potential dates online can be a lot of fun because it gives you access to people you would never meet in person and many couples have found long-term happiness.

Beginning bibliography
“01/01/98 (January/February 1998) -- Rx: Friendship.” 8 Nov 2008 . This article by Beth Baker discusses various health benefits that have been found regarding friendship and social support. I will use this article in my essay to discuss the importance of friendship. —This source was not exactly working when I tried to view it. However from the description I think that it could be useful in some way.

“American Institute of Stress.” 8 Nov 2008 . This particular article deals with the effects of friendship and social support on stress. I will use pieces of this article to discuss the importance of friendship and health. –This isn’t really about online dating but I think it would help with understanding how people are stressed in certain situations and would want to use online dating websites to find there perfect match.

“How to Make Friends Online - wikiHow.” 8 Nov 2008 . This wikiHow gives tips on how to make friends online which I will use to show the origins of the friendships formed on the April Exiles message board. –This would be helpful with the trying to figure out how people behave on online dating websites.

“Rules of Friendship.” 28 Oct 2008 . Brad Paul has written an article focusing on defining friendship and explaining what makes a friendship work. His information will help me relate why the Exiles have remained friends. –This will be good for explain how people make these relationships work.

Cris. "Social Anxiety For 30 Years." __Social Anxiety Forums__. 28 Oct. 2008. 29 Oct. 2008 <http://www.socialanxietysupport.com/forum/>. This site allows anybody to see what people actually face when it comes to social anxiety. There are numerous forums people can post on to try and get support on the problems they face.

Name: "//Unlike other sites where you can post a picture and paragraph and then browse the profiles of other users, eHarmony does the matching for you based on 29 Dimensions of personality that are scientifically-based predictors of long-term relationship success.// " ( "Why eHarmony?." __eHarmony__. 2000-2008 eHarmony, Inc.. 17 Nov 2008 <http://www.eharmony.com/why>. )

"//The societal trends that drive online matchmaking in the U.S. apply in much of the world, after all: women going to work, young people migrating far from home and, perhaps most important, a newly pervasive insistence on love as an essential ingredient of marriage."// ( Masters, Coco. "We Just Clicked." __Time Magazine__ 17 January 2008 17 Nov 2008 <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704691,00.html>.)

"//Of the 92 million unmarried Americans 18 and older counted by the Census last year, about 16 million have tried online dating, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project"// ( Masters, Coco. "We Just Clicked." __Time Magazine__ 17 January 2008 17 Nov 2008 <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704691,00.html>.)

//"Dating profiles are works in progress, continually edited and tweaked, fortified with newer, more flattering pictures. If they were physical documents, they would have the velvety, dogeared texture of beloved children's books or 19th-century family Bibles. Often they're made collaboratively, with friends, or at least vetted by someone of the same sex as their target audience. Many online daters have more than one profile, sometimes on the same dating site.//" ( Egan. Jennifer. "Love in the Time of No Time," __New York Times__ 23 November 2003. 17 Nov 2008 <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1D71138F930A15752C1A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=online%20dating&st=cse> )

//"Online dating is the most lucrative form of legal paid online content. According to comScore Networks, which monitors consumer behavior on the Internet, 40 million Americans visited at least one online dating site in August -- 27 percent of all Internet users for that month."// ( Egan. Jennifer. "Love in the Time of No Time," __New York Times__ 23 November 2003. 17 Nov 2008 <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1D71138F930A15752C1A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=online%20dating&st=cse> )

http://www.espin.com/ Part of the ecrush network Site for online teen community

[|http://chiff.com] Links to popular teen online chat rooms

List of team members who worked on this document and what they did: Team leader: Sara Shepherd Team members: Elizabeth Simon, Krystal Murphy, Laura Zavresa - through chat, we four resolved our schedule and thesis and answered the questions from the first view and do. Kelly Culbreth and Caitlin Shahbazi culled our bibliographies from the third paper to see what is useable for this paper. Sara Shepherd set up the V&D #1 page.