Brandon and I used our extra time to work on on the last few sections of his final research paper. This meant incorporating the research findings from yesterday into a well developed paragraph that not only iterated what those sources were saying, but how they provided useful illumination for Brandon's ideas. This took us a bit of time, as it is a very critical-thinking, labor intensive process. Moving forward, Brandon had to find research to support his Refutation section. To do this, he used bits and pieces of the previously garnered research to support his claims. In the end, Brandon's conclusion was solid, and he finished his first year of college with a great effort!
From the list of excellent sources that Brandon compiled for claim two of his essay (creating a new division of the EEOC will help to reduce cases of pregnancy discrimination), we began to shape the subsequent section of his essay. Brandon garnered research from civil rights lawyer Alison Reuter, who proposed that the establishment of a parent discrimination act would protect both pregnant women and mothers from workplace prejudice. Brandon agreed with this notion, and he plans on articulating that this new law, along with more oversight from the EEOC, will result in less cases of pregnancy and motherhood discrimination every year.
Brandon continued working on the small section of his paper from yesterday, which required him to provide evidence of how creating a new department within the EEOC would help to reduce pregnancy discrimination cases in the U.S.. This was a bit harder than expected, and we spent the entire class doing research on the EEOC site, as well as Northeastern's electronic resource database. Brandon is getting much better at reading abstracts to make sure that the articles' content suits his needs, before randomly reading a document with a potentially relevant title. On his own, Brandon has found some very strong information, and he is able to compile his research into a list that he can then incorporate into his paper.
After receiving the feedback on Brandon's second draft from his reviewer, Faviana Olivier, we tackled some of her remarks and then proceeded to conduct our own review of the document. We found some spots that Brandon needed to clarify, and we changed the generic subheadings so that they had titles that reflected the different sections' content. Brandon was asked to work on a small section of the paper for tomorrow.
We did our review of chapter 9, and went over all the vocabulary. Brandon had completed his discussion posts on his own. He then took the quiz and scored a 9/10.
Brandon read and reviewed for his APA Quiz and he also emailed his professor asking for the specifics on the Peer Review intake form: we couldn't find the link to this, so we were forced to wait for the professor's feedback. After completing his quiz, Brandon went through his degree audit and emails from his academic advisor to decide which classes he will take in the fall. I reminded Brandon that at some point he would need to make up the other class that he dropped this semester, but he did not seem too concerned.
