Exercise 4.1

Keywords and Keyword Combinations I am Using to Search

Clean burning diesel	Diesel hybrid	Diesel fuel manufacturing process
Diesel engine environmental issues	Human body digesting Diesel exhaust fumes	Clean burning diesel education efforts
Diesel vs. gasoline mpg comparison	Emissions

Hypothesis

The US has many benefits from encouraging the car owners to own and drive clean burning diesel vehicles.

Research Questions

What is the comparison of diesel vs. gasoline burning automobiles driven in different countries?

What effect do clean burning diesel motors have on the environment?

Why do car manufactures offer clean burning diesel engines in different countries besides the United States?

Have car manufactures researched the effectiveness of a clean burning diesel hybrid and its efficiency?

Why has the cost of diesel increased drastically over the past ten years compared to gasoline?

Source Variety

Jon Dillaman

English 102

Writing and Research Sect 008

9/27/2011

Reference Work

Kreith, Frank, and D. Yogi Goswami. Handbook of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007. Print.

Scholarly Articles

Kaho, Todd. "CLEAN DIESEL: A NEW ERA OF GREEN CARS." Mother Earth News 238 (2010):

38-43. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.

Newspaper/Magazine articles

Healey, James . "GM confirms diesel Cruze for U.S.; 'It is great,' CEO Akerson says; may hit mid-40s mpg." usa today [nyc] 22 July 2011: Pg. 1B. Print.

Pamphlet or Gov't Pub

Norbye, Jan P.. Modern diesel cars. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1978. Print.

Multimedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7cDJbltRMM

"Grab n Snatch"

· CLEAN DIESEL: A NEW ERA OF GREEN CARS.Full Text Available By: Kaho, Todd. Mother Earth News, Feb/Mar2010, Issue 238, p38-43, 5p Subjects: DIESEL motor; ENGINES; MOTOR vehicles; DIESEL fuels; GASOLINE; Other Engine Equipment Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Merchant Wholesalers`

Kaho, Todd. "CLEAN DIESEL: A NEW ERA OF GREEN CARS." Mother Earth News 238 (2010):
38-43. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.

Jon Dillaman

English 102

Exercise 4.1

9/20/11

Research Question

What is the comparison of diesel vs. gasoline burning automobiles driven in different countries and what effect has it had on its environment?

Why do car manufactures offer clean burning diesel engines in different countries besides the United States?

Have car manufactures researched the effectiveness of a clean burning diesel hybrid and its efficiency?

Who mandates how efficient cars are and why do we not have stricter regulations?

Why has the cost of diesel at the pump, risen higher than the cost of gasoline when it requires less refining?

Keywords and Keyword Combinations I am Using to Search

Clean burning diesel	Diesel hybrid	Diesel fuel manufacturing process
Diesel engine environmental issues	Human body digesting Diesel exhaust fumes	Clean burning diesel education efforts
Diesel vs. gasoline mpg comparison

Hypothesis

The United States would benefit from requiring US car manufactures to produce automobiles with clean burning diesels.

Ex 1.1

Jon Dillaman
Eng 102
Exercise 1.1
6 September 2011

Research Ideas
Alternative Energy
Clean burning Diesel engines
Today’s education techniques
What are today’s middle school missing
Positive effects of students learning a secondary language

Alternative Energy
Politics -What incentives does the Gov’t provide to encourage home owners to implement alternative energy items in their households?
Technology- What is the most cutting edge alternative energy idea out there?
Current Affairs- What public buildings are currently using alternative energy in order to cut down on utilities?
Education- At what grade are public schools starting to inform students about alternative energy, and what impact they have on the future?
History- What are some of the past alternative energy’s that were developed? How far did they go?
Culture- Is utilizing alternative energy in other cultures more common than the US? What can the US do to make it more common?




Clean Burning Diesel Engines
Politics- What incentives does the Gov’t provide to encourage car owners to drive clean burning diesel automobiles?
Technology- How is it that clean burning diesel engines can be so much better mileage than gasoline cars
Current Affairs- Are the automobile manufactures that are going to release cars with clean burning diesel engines in the near future, or are they pursuing something else?
Education- What does the common driver need to know about driving and operating a clean burning diesel?
History- How efficient have some vehicles become, and is the Gov’t going to allow them to be produced in the US
Education- Can Clean burning diesel engines be combined with electric cars to provide an even more efficient automobile?

Research Paper Entry

The last research paper that i wrote was in a spring 2011 semester in one of my Middle Level education classes. I researched Looping in middle schools and its effectiveness. For those of you that do not know what looping is, its the process of the same teacher staying with the same group of students for two to three years. With this process there are many advantages as long as you have teachers that are willing to participate. My research was focused on the middle school years of education but it is also utilized in some schools in earlier grades. My researched provided many examples of the positive outcomes for the students that had teachers migrate through the grades with them. As you can imagine, teaching students at two to three different grades can create a lot of work for a teacher. They are constantly teaching different curriculum and facing the challenges with that. The positive side of this is that teachers learn how their students learn the most effectively and utilize that informationto its fullest extent, which in turn allows them to cover more content and curriculum with in a given period. The topic was very interesting and as a future educator, i look forward to the opportunity to teach in this fashion.