[nabs-l] ENC 1102 class Research Paper Topic

Fri Jun 21 01:52:09 UTC 2013

No but here is a link about the lawsuit
https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-and-blind-student-file-suit-against-maricopa-community-college-district

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:55 PM, 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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