ENGL 112 Week Four - Field Research plan

For my field research I plan on obtaining the number for the Dinosaur Museum out in Fruita and also the History Museum which I believe is out on Main Street or near there. Once I obtain these numbers I am going to call down there and ask to speak to the person whom knows most about dinosaurs. I am hoping to set up a time which each person and I will provide a list of question for each of them in hopes they both can answer my question. I have started to write up a few questions to ask but have not yet completed this. I am planning on meeting with them after finding and recording information from books and online this way I know a bit about the questions I have for them.

ENGL 112 Week Four

1. Mesa State Library
Author: Fastovsky, David E.
Title: The Evolution and extinction of the dinosairs
Publisher: Cambridge; New Yourk: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Information: xvi, 460 p., [14] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.
Contents: Setting the stage- The Mesozoic Era, The origin of dinosaurs, environments, extinction, Dinosaur endothermy, Reconstructing extinction, etc.

2. Mesa State Library
Author: Bakker, Robert T.
Title: The dinosaur heresies: new theories unlocking the mystery of the dinosaurs and their extinction
Publisher: New York: Morrow, c1986
Edition: 1st ed.
Description/Information: 481 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

3. Prospector
Author: Dingus, Lowell
Title: Dinosaurs eggs discovered! : unscrambling the clues
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Twenty First Century Books, 2008
Descripstion/Information: 112 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents: An unexpected discovery

4. Prospector
Author: Ward, Peter Douglas
Title: Under a gree sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future
Publisher: New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007
Edition: 1st Smithsonian Books ed.
Description/Information: xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Extinction (Biology)

5. Prospector
Author: Dixon, Dougal
Title: Styracosaurus and other last dinosaurs
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Picture Window Books, c2006
Descripstion/Information: 24 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Subject: Dinosaurs--extinction

6. Prospector
Author: Brown, Charlotte Lewis
Title: The day the dinosaurs died
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, cc2006
Description: 48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject: Dinosaurs--extinction

Week 3 Journal two

No one really suggested that I narrow my topic. They all said it was a good topic and the fact that I narrowed it down to extinction made it pretty slim. I am going to stick to my original idea and go from here. Thank you for the comments back!

Week 3 Journal One

Extinction of dinosaurs
Dinosaurs that first went extinct
The last dinosaurs which went extinct
How extinction began for dinosaurs
Extinct species

I followed the steps in the week 3 folder and went to each site provided. A few sites led to different sites so I followed those links which in turn gave me a pretty good site called Britannica. It has a lot of information about dinosaurs and their extinction. It contained about 38 pages all on dinosaurs so I will probably be using that site for my internet resource. After bookmarking that site to del.icio.us I went back to the sites provided and continued to type in random keywords and phrases and bookmarked a few that I felt I could have some use from.

ENGL 112 Page 39 Assignment

(1) 1. Could the extinction of dinasaurs also be due to all of the meat eating dinasaurs?
2. How can one be sure of the cause of extinction when humans didn't live at that time?
3. Should we continue to dig for more evidence?
4. What dinasaur went extinct first and which was the last to live?
5. When was the first fosil found?
6. Where were dinasaurs mostly located?
7. Who can really say what happened and how can they be sure?
8. Why did we begin digging for fosils?
9. Would we be able to figure out away to bring dinasaurs back?
10. How did dinasaurs become extinct?

(2)I believe that my last question asked (#10) best describes what I am doing my research paper on.

(3) Although research has been conducted for many years there are still questions to be answered about the extinction of dinasaurs and how it came about.

(4) I feel my research questions help me to find the information I need to write my research paper.

(5) So far so good!

ENGL 112 and topic (2)

I decided to go with the extinction of dinasaurs because I found it to be most interesting on the list provided. It was a toss up between that or the history of the English language. I think it would have been cool to learn about the history of the English language, but I really don't think I could get into it enough to research it for almost the whole semester. Extinction of dinasaurs just seems more interesting and it seems like it would be a broader category; plus more options!

I learned a lot about dinasaurs and their extinction while growing up, but I honestly can't remember a single thing. I have a general recollection of what happened and how long ago but that is really it. I am hoping this time I will remember more. I work at an elementary school and they know more about it than me! I think it would be fun to be able to tell them more about it and actually know what I am talking about!

I want to learn more about the individual dinasaurs and which kind of dinasaurs went extinct first and so forth. Dinasaurs were here before us and I think everyone should have a general idea on how they became and how they went extinct. I'm a little worried I might not be able to find all that much on the extinction of dinasaurs, but it is worth a shot.

ENGL 112 and topic (Post 1)

I printed off the possible research topics and put stars next to the topics I found interesting and would like to learn more about. I put stars next to four different topics. The first one I found that would be interesting to learn more about was the history of the English language, my second choice was extinction of dinosaurs, my third was the history and future of the internet, and the fourth topic I found interesting was the mythological and literary sources of The Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter series. I thought about it all week and I finally came to a decision; the extinction of dinosaurs!