Week 3:
Date:
Hours:
Description:
Notes:
16-Sep
1
Literature search for environmental literature on Philadelphia related to air pollution
Was unsure of whether news articles or older journals are acceptable
16-Sep
1
Read 1st journal
took a lot of time to search unknown terms and methods, possibly went too indepth with understanding the processes
16-Sep
1.25
1st annotation
Found a better article to annotate while searching the author's other work, caused a delay in progress
17-Sep
1
Group Meeting

17-Sep
1.2
1st annotation cont'd
Took longer than expected to find where referenced and to understand the material in relation to the questions
18-Sep
1
1st annotation cnt'd

19-Sep
0.25
2nd report reading

19-Sep
0.6
2nd annotation

19-Sep
1.5
2nd annotation cont'd
Took extra time to understand methodology and data analysis
20-Sep
0.75
Annotation commenting
Commented on organization annotation of South Bronx organizations
20-Sep
0.6
3rd report reading and annotation
20-Sep
2.1
3rd report annotation






Week 4




23-Sep
0.67
Literature search
Searched many sources, found varieties of results, emailed about which are the most relevant
23-Sep
0.58
1st journal: annotation introduction questions
Citation, abstract, authors' information (doing this first helps me decide if the author has better journals that I can annotate instead)
24-Sep
0.5
2nd Journal: annotation introduction Q's

24-Sep
0.33
3rd Journal : annotation introduction Q's

24-Sep
1
Group Meeting


24-Sep
0.15
Modifications of annotation introduction Q's
Changed citation style to Chicago
26-Sep
3
1st journal: rest of annotation
Interesting read

27-Sep
2.5
2nd journal: rest of annotation

27-Sep
0.6
Commenting on annotation

27-Sep
2.75
3rd journal: most of annotation
Extremely difficult read and understand, very technical

Week 5



29-Sep
1.5
Finding news articles
Found it at first difficult to find newer articles
30-Sep
0.33
Citations of news articles
1-Oct
1
News article 1

1-Oct
0.82
News article 2

2-Oct
1.1
News article 3

2-Oct
0.8
News article 4

2-Oct
0.7
News article 5

3-Oct
1.15
News article 6
Each news annotation didn't take the recommended 30 mins. They were not difficult but I tried my best to find the best follow up points.
3-Oct
0.7
Finishing 3rd journal article from last week
Hadn't finished because I ran out of time last week (went over the 12 hours)
3-Oct
3
1st Journal
had a little bit of complications with the wiki pages, they didn't save so it took longer than I expected
4-Oct
0.6
Comments on annotation
4-Oct
0.25
Responding to comments on annotation
Needed to look up information
4-Oct




Week 6




7-Oct
0.33
Chose India article


7-Oct
1
Began Google Doc bullet points
Finding it difficult to do this quickly, had to look back into old work and formulate it into a significant point
7-Oct
1
Continued working on Google Doc
Found it interesting to apply my findings. Causing me to critique my own annotations and analysis of scientific studies.
8-Oct
0.75
Continued working on Google Doc

8-Oct
2
Continued working on Google Doc
Finding it extremely hard to make relevant connections to the later bullet points from what my research has consisted of so far, had to find new sources
8-Oct
0.75
Meeting


8-Oct
0.33
Continued working on Google Doc

9-Oct
2
Finished bullet points
Took some time to transfer citations
10-Oct
1
India report


11-Oct
3
India report continued


11-Oct
0.4
Commenting on annotation







12.56




Week 7




17-Oct
0.5
searching for lawsuits


18-Oct
2.25
Notes for lawsuits
Took a while to analyze and summarize each lawsuit and its conclusions
18-Oct
0.25
Searching for organizations

18-Oct
1
Searching for reporters


19-Oct
1.25
Notes for organizations


19-Oct
1
Notes for reporters


19-Oct
2.25
India
Found it challenging to find new things, because I was posting later than everyone
19-Oct
3.5
Clean Air Council Profile
Going through the entire website and finding relevant information took time






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Week 8




22-Oct
1.25
Meeting


24-Oct
3.8
India lists
Took a lot of time searching through organization's initiatives and work.
24-Oct
0.85
India Google Doc


24-Oct
0.1
Timeline


25-Oct
1.1
India Google Doc
Found it challenging to make many points because of limited India research so far
24-Oct
2
Timeline
Had trouble uploading pictures this time
25-Oct
3
Presentation








12.1




Week 9



29-Oct
1.5
Meeting

1-Nov
0.75
Searching for material
Based of the response to the presentation, I decided to find some news articles focused on PA energy info and plans. Also got enough reports/articles for week 10
1-Nov
2.5
First article
Long article, lots of "actors" and sub-arguments.
1-Nov
1.25
Second article

1-Nov
0.2
Third article

1-Nov
0.1
Added to Philadelphia timeline
Found an event about SEPTA that seemed important









6.3



Week 10



4-Nov
0.33


5-Nov
1.25
Meeting

7-Nov
0.5
Finishing up presentations
Added a reference page and description of sources, fixed some problems in my citations on the google doc
7-Nov
0.75
Finished up last week news annotation
8-Nov
1.25
Clean Air Council Strategic Plan
Gave me insight on how the Council 'thinks' and goes about making change
8-Nov
1.25
Philadelphia climate change article/study
9-Nov
0.83
Philadelphia climate change article/study




6.16




Week 11



15-Nov
2.6
Finished annation from last week
15-Nov
0.25
Added organizations to the Philadelphia list.
Will write about them the next time that is in the assignment or soon.
15-Nov
1.25
Marcellus Shale paper
Took a while to find because I wanted to do another scientific study instead of news article, also had trouble deciding between 2.
16-Nov
1.85
Marcellus Shale paper










5.95







Week 12




19-Nov
0.75
Meeting


21-Nov
3.75
Annotation 1
Annotated 2 reports in one, so I could make the "addendum" piece about both.
22-Nov
1.5
Annotation 2
Took longer than expected, looked into the condensed, summary, and full report before beginning the annotation.






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