Instructions: Send an e-Mail:

OBJECTIVE: To know about your work environment and/or your doctoral program which may help the instructor to have an idea about what theme of study you could embrace as the focus of your research assignments in this course.

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Please write an e-mail to the instructor illustrating to some extent:

• 1. Are you a teacher? (grade level, subject you teach, and anything you may want to mention). If you are not a teacher please explain.

• 2. Aside from your previous response; What is something you would like to do as a research study? (like an issue that calls your attention related to education -at any level or from any given point of view).

      To respond this question 2, write:

       -What would be the issue/problem to be addressed in your research proposal?

       -Who would be the subjects (people) of your study? (e.g. students, parents, teachers)

       -How you would collect data and information (e.g. surveys, tests, observations, interviews, databases, etc.)

      Before answering, watch the following videos:

             http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/picking_topic/ (3:10 min)

             http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/idea_library/ (2:28 min)

From 1st Week Session class materials:

• 3. In regard to writing using APA style (Watch the videos):

    a) How many words the abstract should contain?

    b) How many words has a long (block) quotation in APA?

        (Check also your APA Manual pages 272 and 273 to see block quotation examples)

From the APA Style Example Word document (on 1st Week Session class materials):

• 4. Please answer (from the APA Style Example):

    a) What are the three ways to quote author(s)? (Provide one example of each).

    b) When is appropriate to use & (ampersand) within citations?

    c) When is appropriate to use and (and not &) within citations?

From the announcements section:

• 5. Which of your e-mail accounts the professor is asking you to use for the first assignment in this course?

• 6. What is the professor policy regarding the question some students ask at the end of the semester: How can I improve my grade Dr. Rodriguez? (see the second announcement in Blackboard)

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Write your 6 responses on a MsWord document and send it back attached to an e-mail (please don't paste it into the body of your e-mail) to: ignacio.rodriguez@utrgv.edu

Mention the section of your course in your e-mail title/subject (EDFR 8300)