Part one:
This week, we will be covering the brain and the neuron. After reviewing the text and course module material, please review the following brain tutorial.
Then, for your discussion this week, identify three neurotransmitters. Using specific examples, describe how they may play a role in your own behavior.
Part two:
You can use a “ Spider Diagram” to help you to structure your discussion of sources in The Literature Review as well as to brainstorm the niches and gaps in the research literature. A spider diagram is a visual tool usually used for planning your writing. However, you can also use it for evaluating and thinking about a topic in detail.
Print out your Literature Review notes and grab a blank piece of paper.
For more information on the Spider Diagram, please visit the link at the top of this week’s Content, Spider Diagrams: How and Why They Work.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationadvi…
Task :
- Write your idea/title/topic/thesis in the center of a piece of paper. Draw a circle around it. For the purposes of this exercise, you will use the topic of your Literature Review.
- Draw a “leg” from the central “body” of your Literature Review topic towards the top right hand corner of the page. Label this “leg” with the first topic/category that you dealt with in your Review.
- Add more legs moving clockwise around the page until all the sections have been included, with the final one being somewhere near the top left of the page.
- Now divide each “leg” up into smaller “legs” with all the points that you made in each section. (Again work clockwise from the top left so that the sequence of ideas is maintained).
- Finally, please be sure that one section is devoted to identifying any gaps or niches in the research literature in your synthesis of sources essay (literature review), or WA#3.
- You may have to redraw your spider diagram several times until you find a structure that works for you. Make sure that you find a proposal structure that suits the needs of your Niches and Gaps paper. Please post your spider diagram below.
- Respond to this discussion topic with one paragraph describing how this task might have helped you or why it did not help you in organizing your thoughts for WA#3.
**these are discussion board topic; only need brief responses**