[nabs-l] ENC 1102 class Research Paper Topic

Fri Jun 21 01:05:38 UTC 2013

Hi Helga,
While I'm glad to share stories with you, I am wondering if you are
allowed to use personal stories in your research paper? The
instructions you sent us seem to say that you can only use published
books and articles as sources; it doesn't say anything about using
personal interviews as sources. Are you allowed to use personal
interviews after you finish your bibliography, or are you only allowed
to use the sources in your bibliography which are limited to books,
online articles and newspaper/magazine articles? If you aren't sure,
that would be an important question to ask your professor before you
start collecting personal stories from folks. Also, it sounds like it
would help Helga more if we can recommend published sources to her
rather than just sharing our personal stories which may or may not
count as sources for your paper.

The NFB has and is continuing to work on cases involving
discrimination against college students. I would suggest going to
www.nfb.org
and look for the 2012 presidential report, which has lots of examples
of cases the NFB has been working on. Many involve inaccessible class
materials, which is a form of discrimination. You could also call the
NFB at
410-659-9314
and ask to speak with Meghan Sidhu.
The NFB has published press releases regarding discrimination, which
means there are probably news articles about the NFB cases. Meghan may
know of news articles she can share with you.

Best of luck,
Arielle

On 6/20/13, Helga Schreiber <helga.schreiber at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Suzanne, this is Helga. I just would like to ask you, do you know where
> can I contact the college student whom the NFB is helping him with a
> lawsuit, due to his English instructor drop him out of her class because he
>
> was blind? I really would like to talk to him regarding this issue, since I
>
> think this is definitely descrimination. Thanks and God bless! :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzanne Germano
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:30 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] ENC 1102 class Research Paper Topic
>
> I know that the NFB is helping with a lawsuit concerning a college student
> in Arizona at Mesa College one of the Mricopa Community colleges. His
> English instructor did not want to have a blind person in her class and
> dropped him form the course.
>
> I have not noticed any yet since returning to school last January. Back in
> the mid 90s I was attending San Deigo Statue University studying computer
> science. I was getting A's. I am legally blind so I was using large print
> for exams in the classroom, used monocular and was quite independent in my
> courses. I went to speak with the dean about possible changing my degree to
> computational science and was told "I can't imagine any job you could do".
> A few years before that I was in a Computer Science and Information Systems
> certificate program at a community college. This program was sponsored by
> IBM. CA Voc Rehab and the college. The program was for persons with
> disabilities and we had our own classroom with all the assitive technology,
> signers for the deaf student etc. Each student was assigned a mentor form
> the business advisory group. In my first phone conversation with my mentor,
> he said, "How can you be a programmer if you can't see?"It was a
> condescending tone and one I knew was not to understand "how". He was rude
> and I knew no matter what I said he would not believe someone with a visual
> impairment could work as a programmer. I was the only student of the 25 to
> get a 4.0 in the program yet just hearing I was visually impaired
> automatically umped to the conclusion I could not do it.
>
> Suzanne
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Helga Schreiber <
> helga.schreiber at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just wanted to tell you that for my ENC 1102 class, my professor told
>> us
>> that we need to write a Research Paper on a topic that we are interested
>> on, or we like to learn more about. So today in class she told us that we
>> need to think on a topic. So I actually today after class I told her the
>> name of the topic that I would like to  write about. Just to let you
>> know,
>>  The name of my topic is “Exists Descrimination between Visually Impaired
>> College Students?”
>> I am actually interested in this topic because since I’m studying in
>> order
>> to become a lawyer, I really would like to learn about this issue, since
>> one of the things I would like to focuss on is on dissability rights. I
>> just would like to ask you, did some of you experienced or are still
>> experiencing descrimination during your life, or college years? I was
>> just
>> wondering, since I would like to use some of your life stories as facts
>> and
>> evidences in my research paper in order to prove that descrimination
>> really
>> happens in the life of a visually impaired college student. If you would
>> like to provide me your biography, or life stories regarding this issue,
>> you are welcome to do so. Also, let me know if you would like me to use
>> your name, or if you rather would like to be anonymous?
>> In fact, my professor told us that before we start writing our  research
>> paper, we need to do a Bibliography and find sources online about this
>> topic. Just to let you know, here are the steps that we need to follow
>> before writing this research Paper:
>> Part II: The Bibliography [10 sources with 3-4 sentence summaries of each
>> source]
>>
>>
>>
>> Before you start writing your research paper, you will conduct some
>> preliminary research on your topic/research question. You will compile
>> this
>> initial research into a bibliography (a list, basically) of your sources
>> in
>> MLA format.  You will be drawing upon these sources for your final
>> research
>> paper (though you may not use all of them).  You will also include a
>> short
>> [3-4 sentences] summary of each source.
>>
>>
>>
>> Your bibliography must include the following:
>>
>>
>>
>> §  Two books (they can be old-fashioned printed books or eBooks, it
>> doesn’t matter).
>>
>> §  Two articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals found using the
>> library’s databases.
>>
>> §  Two articles from websites that are professional in nature and do not
>> contain user-generated content*
>>
>> §  Four articles from popular periodicals (newspapers and magazine
>> produced for a general audience, like Time, The New York Times, Newsweek,
>> The Sun Sentinel, etc.)
>>
>>
>>
>> You must have a total of 10 sources, and the sources MUST fit the
>> criteria
>> listed above.  Though all of your sources may be “web-based” (i.e.,
>> newspapers and magazines published online, scholarly articles in full
>> text
>> found via database, a book accessed via ebookcollection, etc.),  you may
>> not use web  sources that contain user-generated content (no Wikipedia,
>> Answers.com, eHow.com, or similar websites) due to credibility of the
>> information available. If you’re not sure if your website is suitable,
>> you
>> should ask me. In general, some .orgs and .coms can be pretty sketchy,
>> but
>> .govs and .edus are usually pretty credible provided you trust the
>> information provided by our federal government and institutes of higher
>> education.
>>
>>
>>
>>  So this are actually the steps that I need to follow before writing my
>> research paper. I was just wondering, if would it be possible for you as
>> well to give me some sources like these ones in order to start searching
>> on
>> my topic? By  the way, the reason I ask you if you could provide me with
>> your life experiences is because I would like to use them in order to
>> prove
>> my point regarding this issue. Also, could you let me know what do you
>> think of my topic? I will really appreciat it. Thank you so much for
>> listening and for your time. God bless.
>>
>> Sincerelly, Helga Schreiber
>>
>> P.S. If you have any questions regarding this, you can email me off list
>> if you like? my email address is
>>
>> helga.schreiber at hotmail.com
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