RJA #15

Word Cloud URL
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3878126/Untitled

Reflection:
This is actually my first research class. At first, I didn't be that confident for this class, but later, I really found doing research is very interesting. Many website, many tools which we are able to use in our research paper, and this made doing research pretty fun! And I just have a little suggestion that at last class, when professor put us who had the same topic together was very helpful, and I suggest that professor can do it for your next class.

RJA #14

Visual Aids

• VA #1: The explanation of Cutting and Folding experiment held in 1995.
• VA #2:Steele's failure experiment data table on the Mozart Effect
• VA #3: Rat experiment held by Frances Rauscher to show the speed that rats went through the labyrinth
• VA #4: Rat experiment held by Frances Rauscher to show the mistakes that maked by those rats when they were trying to go through the labyrinth.
• VA #5: The comparison of brain waves of epileptics between Mozart group and Silence group.

Field Research

       I did a survey on my field research. My question is do you want to learn at least one of the musical instrument when you are young? I did that in a Chinese survey, and I send it to 53 of my friends and 42 answered so far. Eighty-nine percent (37 people) replied yes.

Web Project Plan

       In the Web Project, I will introduce Mozart first, and then talk the Mozart Effect. I will mainly talk about some experiments of the Mozart Effect and try to link them to the original website. Introduce some scientists who have participate to the Mozart Effect and link them to their own website.

RJA #13

Another Four Sources

1. mozart effect Videos Online - VideoSurf Video Search. (n.d.).VideoSurf Video Search Engine | Watch Free Videos Online, Funny Videos, TV Episodes, Movies and more. Retrieved July 20, 2011, from http://www.videosurf.com/videos/mo      The reason why I chose this website is to find an evidence that the music can heal diseases.
2. Vintage, O. S., & 2007.. (n.d.). NOVA | Musical Minds. PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved July 20, 2011, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/musical-minds.html  This is an example of music can decrease the turrets. 
3. R&R-Search Results. (n.d.).The Mozart Effect® - Books, music, resources and more!®. Retrieved July 20, 2011, from http://mozarteffect.com/RandR/RandR.php?search=Mozart+Effect  this website has lots of sources that I can choose from.
4. 'Mozart effect' helps young epileptics.(2011, February 20). 'Mozart effect' helps young epileptics. Mail on Sunday. p. 25. Retrieved from EBSCOhost..  This is an example that I will write in my research paper.

My Presentation Plan

I would like to share the birth of the Mozart Effect and according to my background essay, I will show some major fields that have been using the Mozart Effect in order to explain that the Mozart Effect is not only music.

1. Brain Development
2. the birth of the Mozart Effect
3. several experiment to prove the Mozart Effect (several stories)

RJA #12

Conversion From MLA to APA Style

1. Human Intelligence: Mozart Effect. (n.d.). Indiana University. Retrieved July 18, 2011, from http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/moz
2. Baidu Wenku: Mozart Effect. Baidu Wenku. Retrieved July 18, 2011, from http://wenku.baidu.com/view/a7e
3. Baidu Baike: Mozart Effect. Baidu Baike. Retrieved July 18, 2011, from http://wenku.baidu.com/view/a7ec

Another Four sources

1. Campbell, D. G. (1997). The Mozart effect: tapping the power of music to heal the body, strengthen the mind, and unlock the creative spirit. New York: Avon Books.
2. Campbell, D. G. (2000). The Mozart effect for children: awakening your child's mind, health, and creativity with music. New York: William Morrow.
3. "MOZART EFFECT" - MUSIC/BRAIN RESEARCH. (n.d.). Parenting Central. Retrieved July 20, 2011, from http://www.parenting-baby.com/Parenting-Baby-Music-Research/Music-Research.html
4. Classical Music - can it make your smarter? / Eco Beat. (n.d.). Writers & Photographers: Food, Fashion, Humor, Love, Politics, Movies and More. Retrieved July 20, 2011, from http://www.blogcatalog.com/post

RJA #11

Logic Fallacies

1. Genetic Fallacy: Music can control our brain because it makes us happy or sad.
2. Red Herring: Without Mozart's contribution, the advanced technology couldn't be developed.
3. Faulty Appeal to Authority: Business men always analyze the Mozart's works, and they find the Mozart Effect truly exist.
4. Straw Man: Those who thought the Mozart Effect is no true do not know any music!
5. Hasty Generalization: Someone had a survey before. He tested 5 people and 4 of them thought the Mozart Effect exist, so the man concluded the Mozart Effect is true.
6. Part to Whole: Tom was touched by Mozart's music, so the Mozart Effect exists.
7. Proof by Lack of Evidence: The Mozart Effect exists.

RJA #10

Thesis Question
Is the Mozart Effect real?

Precise Claim
the Mozart Effect can make people smarter

Reasons/Blueprints:
1.the audiences of classical music.
2.the melody of the music can bring a sense of comfort to people
3.lots of experiment proved that the Mozart Effect exists.

Thesis Statement
The Mozart Effect works on everybody everywhere.

Argument
Reason A: People who like classical music usually very successful.
Evidence A1: people who like classical music always behave properly
Evidence A2: classical music is set as the required classes to grand tour
Evidence A3: provide several examples to support that

Reason B: Lots of people try to calm down themselves by listening to music
Evidence B1: lots of people sleep while listening to music
Evidence B2: experiment shows that given a certain piece of music (largo) can make people sleepy.
Evidence B3: usually after working, people want to listen to music to relax themselves.

Reason C: Mozart's works connect with our nerve
Evidence C1: experiment shows that after listening to the Mozart, people's spatial ability got improved.
Evidence C2: Mozart's works' peak related to our nerve peak.
Evidence C3: Mozart's work usually optimistic

Objection  A: people's success cannot directly related to the Mozart Effect

Objection C: so many facts can change the result of experiment
Refutation C: all things are for the business

RJA #9

Thesis
This background essay is mainly talking about the birth of the Mozart Effect. In order to increase the intelligence, people tried massive ways, and the Mozart Effect is just one of them. The Mozart Effect is originated from an experiment and has been widely analyzed through the entire world.

Outline
1. Using Einstein to grab people's attraction and also begin my essay.
2. Introduction of the first experiment of the Mozart Effect.
3. Introduce several area that people use the Mozart Effect.


Annotated Bibliography


Society has often hoped for a quick and simple way of increasing intelligence. In 1993, such a possibility was offered by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993) found that a group of 36 college undergraduates improved their spatial-temporal intelligence (the ability to mentally manipulate objects in three-dimensional space) after listening to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata. Results showed that student' IQ scores improved by 8-9 points and lasted for 10-15 minutes. The findings, which were later dubbed the Mozart effect, have spawned both criticism and support for music's ability to alter intelligence.
Human Intelligence: Mozart Effect." Indiana University. Web. 08 July 2011. 


最受欢迎胎教音乐 这篇论文的主要作者、美国威斯康星州立大学副教授弗兰斯·劳舍尔本身也是一位大提琴演奏家，此 后，她用老鼠做过类似的试验。研究者为还在子宫中的小老鼠播放同一首曲子，并让它们在出生后两个月 内继续听这首曲子，然后将这些老鼠放置在迷宫中。结果，听过莫扎特的小老鼠找到出口的速度比其他没 听过莫扎特曲子的三组老鼠都要快。 此后十多年，劳舍尔的研究在学术界引发了一场风暴，不少学者对她的发现进行了修正或者抨击。无 论如何，劳舍尔的研究获得了媒体的广泛关注，并导致了一场流行心理学热潮。现在莫扎特曲子已经成了 最受欢迎的胎教音乐。


巴黎医生阿尔弗雷德·托马提斯是利用莫扎特音乐进行治疗的先驱，他用莫扎特的音乐治疗各种儿童 缺陷和包括抑郁症在内的成人疾病。目前，波兰已经在全国范围内引入了托马提斯的治疗方法，主要帮助 孩子克服一些学习上的困难。但此类治疗方法只在少数几个国家得到正式承认，传统的音乐治疗医师对此 也多有怀疑。


"莫扎特效应_百度文库." 百度文库――文档分享平台. Web. 08 July 2011. <http://wenku.baidu.com/view/a7ec721a964bcf84b9d57ba1.html>.

RJA #8

Society has often hoped for a quick and simple way of increasing intelligence. In 1993, such a possibility was offered by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993) found that a group of 36 college undergraduates improved their spatial-temporal intelligence (the ability to mentally manipulate objects in three-dimensional space) after listening to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata. Results showed that student' IQ scores improved by 8-9 points and lasted for 10-15 minutes. The findings, which were later dubbed the Mozart effect, have spawned both criticism and support for music's ability to alter intelligence.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/mozarteffect2.shtml#intro

• People always argue that where does the Mozart's music affect us? In this passage, it says that (a group of 36 college undergraduates improved their spatial-temporal intelligence...); however, this kind of improvement just last a very short period of time[ 10-15 minutes].

• Paraphrase
• Society is looking for a easy way to become smarter. In 1993, researchers in UC Irvine got a result that students increased their spatial ability after listening the Mozart sonata for 10 minutes. Researchers found that students' IQ score raised up about 8-9 points and this lasted for 15 minutes. So this result brought people to attack or support that the Mozart music can increase the intelligence.

• Summarize
• In order to find a way to increase the intelligence, in 1993, an experiment took place. A group of students were given a Mozart sonata for 10 minutes. And the researchers found that students' spatial ability, after listening to the Mozart, had been improved. 

RJA #7

Field research


I am going to interview a professional violinist called Yang Liu. He has a traditional musical family, so he has to experience music a lot. This is the reason why I choose him. I have a list of question to ask him.

1. His understanding of music
2. He also trained his son to play violin, and I think there should be some reasons or some experience that he thought will be benefit to his son. Or he might think that music may bring intelligence to his son, which is my topic.
3. While he is playing his violin, does he find something that goes through his brain?
4. Which is the thing that mostly affected him in his music life?

Evaluation Sources


Book
"The Mozart Effect for Children" by Don Campbell

•  Authority

1. What are the author's credentials? "He serves on the boards of the Boulder Philharmonic and the American Music Research Center."
2. Does the author have expertise on the subject? "DON CAMPBELL has spent more than three decades exploring a d writing about the benefits of music for lifelong learning, and is a world-renowned authority on music and its role in education and health."
3. What degree(s) does the author hold? From what college or university? "Don Campbell is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Southern Wesleyan University." From http://acda.org/southcarolina/Bios/doncampbell.html
4. Is the author a member of professional organizations? Yes, according to the answer of first question, he is!
5. Are they affiliated with any of the following: a university or college, government agency, publisher or press, or their own company? "Don Campbell is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Southern Wesleyan University." From http://acda.org/southcarolina/Bios/doncampbell.html

• Timeliness

1. When was the information published? The book is published at August 8,2000 (First Edition)
2. When was the web site last updated? There is only one edition for this book.

• Documentation

1. Does the author refer to other works? No, he didn't.
2. Does the Web page provide related links? N/A
3. Is a bibliography provided? N/A
4. Does the author support statements with data or references? I didn't finish reading that book yet.

• Purpose & Audience 

1. Is the information presented intended to inform, persuade, present opinions, report research, or sell a product? No, the author thought "music has the power not only to soothe the soul but to heal the body as well." So he wrote this book to guide others especially children into music world.
2. For what audience is it intended? The general public, professionals, students. Children!
3. Is it popular or scholarly? More scholarly than popular.
4. Does it show any bias? No, this book describes music affection in children. 

• Review Process

1. Was there any review process at all? N/A
2. Was it critically reviewed after it was written? I couldn't prove whether it has been critically reviewed.

• Suitability

1. Does the source contain the information you need? Yes, I found a lot of information that I  will quote in my papers. 
2. Is it written at a level you can understand? Yes, pretty understandable.

Periodical Article

'Mozart Effect' Was Just What We Wanted To Hear by Mary Louise Kelly

• Authority

1. What are the author's credentials? Kelly has a degree in Government and French history and literature from Harvard University. She completed her masters in European Studies at Cambridge University.
2. Does the author have expertise on the subject? Actually, she is a radio reporter, and she reported this discussion about the experiment of the Mozart Effect. 
3. What degree(s) does the author hold? From what college or university? Same as the first question.
4. Is the author a member of professional organizations? She is working at National Public Radio's senior Pentagon correspondent.
5. Are they affiliated with any of the following: a university or college, government agency, publisher or press, or their own company? It belongs to Morning edition of National Public Radio.

• Timeliness

1. When was the information published? It was published on 06 28th, 2010.
2. When was the web site last updated? It is a newspaper, so June 28th 2010 was also the last date of updating.

• Documentation

1. Does the author refer to other works? No, it was a conversation between reporter and a woman who firstly researched the Mozart Effect.
2. Does the Web page provide related links? No.
3. Is a bibliography provided? No.
4. Does the author support statements with data or references? No.

• Purpose and Audience 

1. Is the information presented indended to inform, persuade, present opinions, report research, or sell a product? Interview about a woman's opinion.
2. For what audience is it intended? The general public, professionals, students. The general public who have curiosity about the Mozart Effect.
3. Is it popular or scholarly? Scholarly.
4. Does it show any bias? No.

• Review Process

1. Was there any review process at all? I think it has gone through the review process, otherwise it cannot be possibly published.
2. Was it critically reviewed after it was written? No idea.

• Suitability

1. Does the source contain the information you need? Yes, it does. Because this report describes the experiment of the Mozart Effect which is scientifically introduced the Mozart Effect.
2. Is it written at a level you can understand? Yes, it is a conversation. We can also listen to it.

Website

Mozarteffect.com by Don Campbell

• Authority

1. Since it is the same author with my first book, I will scape this session.

Actually, I want to do another way to describe this website. It is a commercial and knowledge website. But it contains abundant sources of not only music topics but also directly related to my topic which is the Mozart Effect. It combines a lot of great articles regarding the Mozart Effect, which I will spend more time on that. As Professor Clark recommended, it is a great and valuable source for me to deeply analyzed.

RJA #6

Website

• resource searched or tool used: search engine - ExactSeek.com 
• keywords used - Mozart Effect
• search Strategy: +Mozart +Effect -amazon
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 20 
• relevances of hits: 4

• resources searched or tool used: meta and multi search engines - bestsearch.com
• keywords used - Mozart Effect
• search strategy: Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 15
• relevances of hits: 4

• resources searched or tool used : Directory - Best of the Web Directory
• keywords used: Mozart Effect
• search strategy: Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 23
• relevances of hits: 1

• resources search or tool used: invisible web search tool - INCY Wincy
• keywords used: Mozart Effect
• search strategy : Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 10
• relevances of hit: 4

Social Media and Multimedia

• resources searched or tool used: social media search tools - blogcatalog 
• keywords used: Mozart Effect
• search strategy: Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 15
• relevances of hits: 3

• resources searched or tool used: other media search tools - Google Group
• keywords used: Mozart Effect
• search strategy: Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 10
• relevances of hits: 3

• resources searched or tool used: other media search tools - Yahoo Group
• keywords used: Mozart Effect
• search strategy: Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 12
• relevances of hits: 5

• resources searched or tool used: multimedia search tools - VideoSurf
• keywords used: Mozart Effect
• search strategy: Mozart Effect
• date of search: 6-26-11
• numbers of hits: 10
• relevances of hits: 3

Extra Credit!!

RJA #4

Keywords #1 : affect

FO: effect, affect

RE:  guide, direct, educate

ST: stimulate

LOG: treatment - nonphysical treatment - music - appreciating music - affect brain

Keywords #2 : Brain

FO: brainstorm

RE: brain development, intelligent,  brain reaction, biology, chemical reaction

ST: mind, head

LOG: fetus - brain setup - brain development - education - musical education - music appreciation - brain affection

Keywords #3 : music

FO: musical, musics, musician

RE: melody, symphony, sonata, classical, jazz, hip-hop, instruments

ST: melody

LOG: art - performance - instruments - melody - affect brain


Search String #1 :+mozart +effect +fetus +brain +classical +baby +benefit -amazon

Search string #2 :brain AND stimulate AND fetus OR baby AND music AND mozart And classical NOT amazon

Field Research

1. interview with professional violinist Yang Liu.
2. go to one museum to experience the music effect.
3. call or email Institute for Music and Neurologic Function which focus on the power of music.
4. go to CU Boulder to see some professors to get more ideas.
5. also can do a random survey in RRCC. 

RJA #5

My first reference article

Name of the author of the article: Leech, Caroline

Title of the article: the Mozart Effect

Place of publication : elibrary 

Date of publication: 09-01-2006

URL: http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/elib/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=14&edition=&ts=B757A2DE111160A4ED45722D1A18EE46_1308532924793&start=1&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B129206643

My second reference article:

 Authors:   Standing, Lionel G

                      Verpaelst, Celissa C   

                      Ulmer, Brandon K             

Title of article:A Demonstration of Nonlinear Demand Characteristics in the 'Mozart Effect' Experimental Paradigm. 

Date:2008 

ISSN:15277143

URL:

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=b3fe372c-0e12-4f41-b568-4a811f6289d8%40sessionmgr4&vid=6&bk=1&hid=9&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=35883350

Book #1  The Mozart effect for children

Author: Campbell, Don G

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher, date: New York : William Morrow, c2000

Description: xiv, 237 p.; 24 cm

ISBN :0380977826

Book #2


Author: Campbell, Don G


Edition : 1st ed


Publisher, Date : New York; Avon Books ,1997 


ISBN:0380974185

URL: http://catalog.denverlibrary.org/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=mozart%20effect&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=bks%20AND%20call%3C%3Eebook&query=&page=0#__pos1

Those books are located at Denver Library

RJA#3

• What discussions are emerging around your topics?    
•  The exploration of classical music, especially for Mozart.
• If the Mozart Effect is real, what are the major elements to stimulate the whole process? 
• Who are some of key players and group interested in your topic?
• 1998, Zell Miller, the governor of the state of Georgia (starter)
• 1993, the University of California at Irvine (initial experiment)
• What subtopics emerged in discussion of your topic?
• The exploration of classical music
• Music Theory
• The life of Mozart (the spirit of his works)
• If the Mozart Effect is real, what are the major elements to stimulate the whole proces
• Sound stimulation

Research of people's debate

• commercial speculation
• The experiment cannot be repeated 

Research Questions

1. Raise up questions
• How does music affect brain?
2. I am trying to deeply explore some facts between music theory and brain work. Starting from basic music theory, especially classical music to sound stimulation, I hope I can get some general ideas to connect those two aspect.
3. For this particular research, I will write it not only to the readers who are curious about the Mozart Effect, but also for myself. Actually they are curious about how the Mozart effect work and what is the result. 

RJA#2

•              I finally decided to choose “Is the Mozart Effect Real?” as my topic. The reason why I chose this topic is because I, myself, am really interested in classical music and this topic will be able to bring me many opportunities to explore classical music deeply.
  ·          Regarding classical music, I basically knew that classical music can make people calm down, not only from what I have read in articles about the advantages of listening to classical music, but also from my own experience. About Mozart, to be honest, although he died when he was just thirty five years old and he was in a very poor situation, he had an optimistic attitude for his life.
  ·          However, relating to the Mozart Effect, someone in the LARC told me that after listening to Mozart, children will become smarter than before, and this will be the major point to discuss in my paper. I also want to know whether that perspective is true or not.

RJA#1

Possible Topics

• Is Mozart Effect real?