Plan (November 28, 2014)

Hi all,

Below is the plan for tomorrow. As indicated below, we will talk about the essay assignment. As you know, you need to find and use two secondary academic sources for this assignment. Bring your sources to the tutorial, if you are concerned that your sources may not be academic. I can help you.

Don’t forget: You are required to complete Spark module on academic integrity at http://www.yorku.ca/spark/academic_integrity/index.html

Plan // November 28, 2014

1. Housekeeping (10 – 15 min)  10 min

Attendance, reflection papers

2. Writing skills (30 – 45 min.) 70 min (See below for a detailed plan of this section.)

3. Essay Assignment (30 – 45 min)   20 min.

If have time, we will cover Williams and Conrad. Please come prepared.

Plan of November 28, 2014 Tutorial (part 2)

• How to Find Academic Resources
  • York University Library
  • Google Scholar
• Referencing
  • What is Plagiarism?
  • Humanities (MLA) Style    Study this in your own time
  • Social Sciences (APA) Style
• Planning and Pre-Writing Stage
  • Journey 1: From Gathering Data to an Outline
    1. Collect
    2. Process
    3. Organize
    4. Outline + Working thesis + “Shitty” Introduction
• Writing Stage
  • Journey 2: From an Outline to a Revised Paper
  • Waiting for Your Muse (or that famous writer’s block)
  • A suggestion: Split screen: Outline on the left, essay on the write
    • Use outline view in MS Word
  • Building paragraphs
    • Topic sentence
    • Paragraph development
      1. Definition, explanation, illustration
      2. Providing evidence
      3. Providing analysis
      4. Introductory and concluding paragraphs: V method and ^ method.
    • Quotations
  • Write and Revise!
  • Some techniques
    • Read only the first sentences of each paragraph. Does it make sense? Does it tell it a story. It should.
    • Repeat the same words? Use the Thesaurus. Ms Word has it.
    • Zero tolerance for tipos 🙂

Tutorial Outline – October 10

We will have a short tutorial today. We will end at 1:30 p.m. So we have to be very efficient.

Here is the plan:

1. Introduction and house keeping

2. Heilbroner

• Your questions
• What is the economic problem?
• How do modern societies arrange for their material provisioning?
• How does the Canadian society mobilize and marshal its work forces and distribute its products?
• What is capitalism?

3. Polanyi

• Your questions
• How does Polanyi define each of the non-market principles of economic organization (reciprocity, redistribution and householding)?
• What’s the difference between a commodity and a ‘fictitious commodity’?
• Why are fictitious commodities necessary to the development of a self-regulating market?
• In page 71, Polanyi writes: “A self-regulating market demands nothing less than the institutional separation of society into an economic and political sphere.” What does this mean? Elaborate.

Tutorial Plan /// October 3

1. Introduction [15 min.]: Attendance, Collecting Assignments, Info about enrollment…
2. Group activity 1 [35 min.] Form groups of three. Presentations on following terms: modernity, social science, division of labour, capital/wage labour, Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft, bureaucracy, dominant/counter ideology, sociological imagination, the ‘economic problem’
3. Discussion: [20 min.]What are some of the study strategies Shea and Whitla outline? How do these differ from your own? How can you go beyond simply memorizing and repeating what you read/heard in lecture to demonstrate an understanding of the course material? 
4. Study ‘Hacks’ [20 min.] – Few useful and useless tips.

– 8 Essential Study Hacks (2 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_KxqNawDtg

– How to Study for a Test (5 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPTh8OEBwEo

– Managing Exam Stress (3 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpQrMqDoqE

and Q-A.

TUTORIAL PLAN FOR SEP. 26

1. Introductions (10 minutes)

• Attendance
• Course issues:
  • Anyone not officially enrolled or trying to switch tutorials?
  • Any problems with course website
  • Tutorial website and making comments
• Reflection Papers
  • Five per term

2. Instructions about the first assignment (15 minutes)

3. Group Activity I (25 minutes)

• Speakers will make presentations, which will be followed by discussion

[10 minutes break]

4. Tips to Improve Your Writing (35 minutes)

• Video (12 minutes)
• In class discussion: How do you write? (20 minutes)

5. Developing Critical reading Strategies (15 minutes)

• SQ3R method: Survey, question,read, recite, record
• How do you skim texts for an overview? When is this skill acceptable?
• How can you learn to increase your reading speed?
• How do you annotate e-texts on your computer?

Questions? – 5 min.

Tutorial Plan for Sep. 19

1. Introductions (15 minutes)
   • Attendance
   • Intro to the website
   • Reflection Papers
2. Group Activity: What is the relationship between business and society (15 minutes)?
   • Speakers will present their ideas, note-takers will submit their notes. In the future, they will be tasked with copying their notes in the website.
3. Questions and Discussion on Mills’ Article: Promise (20 minutes)
   • We will begin with these questions: “What is the ‘sociological imagination’? How does the film [Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth] provide concrete examples of what it means to possess ‘the sociological imagination’? What does Mills mean by ‘personal troubles’ and ‘public issues of social structure’? What is ‘social structure’ and what concepts do social scientists use to represent different elements of it?”
   • — 10 min. Break  —
4. Critical Skills (25 minutes)
   • Time Management
     •  [6 Time Management Tips to Increase Productivity, 6:45]
     • Calendars, to-do lists
     • Distraction-free study hacks: Time blocking, e.g.: Pomodoro technique, 3:52.
5. Group Activity (25 minutes)
   • Group A: https://buso13.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/91/
   • Group B: https://buso13.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/a-graph-on-economic-growth-and-inequality-in-the-us/
   • Group C: https://buso13.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/real-wages-vs-productivity/

Tasks for Next Week

• Reflection paper on one of these: If you choose to write a reflection paper this week, it has to be on one of these:
  • Marchak, Patricia M. ‘Ideology and Social Organization’ fromIdeological Perspectives on Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. Pp. 1-24.
  • McNeil, William H. ‘Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History and Historians’ and ‘The Care and Repair of Public Myth’ from Mythistory and Other Essays. ACLS History E-Book Project, 2009. Pp. 3-25.