Clew

Entry 23: 

Reflection

Topic: Meaning on Words Over Time

Clue

    Words often change their meaning over time, or words become "lost" as there are so many to choose from.So, clue once was used in terms of a ball of yarn. Now, it is referring to evidence or information to solve a crime or mystery. 

Link to article I used:jack-the-ripper

    

    How did we go from two entirely different definitions? Well, clue stems from the word 'clew', which meant a ball of thread/yarn. The whole origin stems from greek mythology (according to this article I am reading). 

    The article gives a whole story about the greek gods and gifts and more and then goes to tell a story and uses this poem called The Legend of Good Women. 

Lines from poem: 

By a clewe of twyn as he hath gon

The same weye he may returne a-non

ffolwynge alwey the thred as he hath come.

    It then goes into explaining how this poem helps to change the meaning and the article says "By the 17th century, the universal reverence that later writers held towards Chaucer led to the figurative use of "clew of thread" as an expression for any guidance that would lead to a solution for a puzzle, problem or difficulty. It came to mean, quite literally, "that which points the way." (Jones,Richard). 

    I think it is really interesting to see how words change their meaning over time. I originally got this idea when I was listening to 50's-60's music and there is this song that uses the word "tramp" (The Lady is a Tramp by Buddy Greco - the version I hear) and the women he describes throughout the song does not follow societies rules, she makes her own. I think now, we would consider her to be independent. Now, tramp is used in several different ways. While they still have similar definitions... I guess, I wanted to see if other words were completely different! 

Resume Writing

 Entry 22: 

Research (With Picture examples) 

Topic:  Resume Writing

    Since this is a skill that was pushed on me and one that I think is very practical as we all are going to college to get our dream jobs or just to get a degree to buff up a resume I wanted to give tips on how to make a resume. 

    First off, what is a resume? (I am sure you know...). A resume is a document that is created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments to obtain a job. 

How do you write a resume?

1. Pick a format

• Do not write anything, just figure out how you want it to look overall. 

2. Start with basic information

• Your name (first, last, maybe middle inital),
• Phone number (whatever is the best way to reach you, preferably your cell phone.)
• Your personal email address (it should be something professional, not something you made when you were 12 and wanted to be funny).
• Address 
• Anything else relevant to the job: personal URL, social medias, etc.

3. Your work experience + any other experiences you have

• Your past employment or volunteer activities
• Any experience relevant to the job would be helpful!

4.Your education

• College experience/high school experience. What type of degree you have earned (if any).

5. Skills and Interests

• They want to see what you like to do and what you can do. This part is not necessary though. 

TIP: Most employers do not want to read your resume if it is over 2 pages, most prefer you to keep it all to one page/ 

EXAMPLES OF RESUMES: 

Guided Question (Week 5, Question 2)

 Entry 21:

Reflection:

Topic: What kinds of writing, collecting, and annotating do we need to do while we are conducting research?

    While writing you should always annotate your sources, take notes on your sources and make sure they fit what you are writing about. Try to incorporate some into your writing to make sure that your source and what you are saying in your writing make sense, if your research goes against what you are saying, it is probably not the resource for you and you should continue with conducting research. It is important to try and have ideas of what you need to find before going into your research. I found tips that said that writing summaries about your research can help you write your paper more fluently. 

    While conducting research it is important to do all these things to make the best paper possible. You should be able to talk about what you just read to make sure that the ideas stuck. I gave tips in another blog talking about how to do these things if you would like to check out my others! 

Guided Question (Week 5, Question 1; Part 2)

 Entry 20:

Reflection

Topic: Why do we need to know how to access, read, analyze, evaluate, and use secondary resources in our own research writing and everyday lives?

    Knowing how to research anything, especially in society today, is crucial. How often people go to the internet for solutions to any type of problem is almost daily. I know that my search history is long in just dumb questions that I had mid-conversation or for school, or something I needed to figure out for my house. 

    For those who do not know where to go for secondary resources, you can refer to entry 19 or I can tell you here. Secondary resources can be found in books, journals or online. I think in society today, most of us choose the internet- which there is no problem with that at all- because it is always within reach via phone, computer, tablet and so on. 

    So now we know how to access it, reading it should be fairly simple as long as you know exactly what you are looking for. I would say evaluating its usefulness would be easy given that you would know if it helped you or not when you tried to use it, and if it did not help you within your writing or life, it is a lot easier to find than primary research! 

Guided Question (Week 5, Question 1; Part 1)

 Entry 19:

Research + Reflection + Multimodal

Topic: What is secondary research? 

    According to my research and things that we have already discussed in class. Secondary research is: a research method that uses existing data. Documents that contain secondary research can be found in a variety of places like public libraries, websites, or data obtained from filled in surveys and so much more. The article I found talking about secondary research said that secondary research is more cost-effective than primary research. 

    In this picture it explains the difference between primary and secondary research in a chart like format: 

Ironically, looking at this chart, I think I for a while misunderstood the research methods and flipped them around. 

    In the link that I used it gives more in depth examples if you would like to use it: questionpro 

Reflection:

    Knowing how to find this secondary research may take a while because you need to find exactly what suits your topic, but it will most likely not take as long to find as primary would. However, primary research would help you find exactly what you are looking for. I think that it is beneficial to have both, however you can probably find a survey and all of those things without having to do too much work.

Quotes (Elvis Presley)

 Entry 18: 

Multimodal

Topic: quote

"When things go wrong, do not go with them." 

Link to explain quote: positivityblog

    It basically says that we determine our own lives, just because something is bad or does not work out does not mean that we need to fall down with the bad. 

We often feel that when things go downhill there is no break, but when things go wrong we need to learn from them. Not let it control us, life is all one big learning experience and if we ignore the advice given to us, we may spiral. People often dig a deeper hole than what they started with because one thing went wrong in their day, instead of moving past it- they dwell on it. This quote means to me that if life goes wrong, I need to put myself together and not let it ruin the good. 

Rising Mental Health Issues (Adolescents,Young Adults)

Entry 17:

Reflection

Topic: Rising Mental Health Issues

    For my project one proposal, I decided to talk about social media being linked to rising cases in mental health issues. However, I feel it is important to note the relevance and factors going into rising mental health issues within adolescents and young adults. So I found this article: ajmc, which explains the topic; I will summarize it. (I did not use this article in my research, I just typed it into google.)

    In the article, they say that social media may be to blame for the rise in mental health issues when regarding adolescents and young adults. A survey that was conducted and mentioned in this article said that teens in the US are aware of the mental health issues, most reporting anxiety and depression as a major problem- saying it is "more prominent than bullying, drug addiction and poverty." They said that the cause for the rise in mental health issues could be "the concurrent rise in social media" and "being less likely to interact face-to-face" and those who use social media are more likely to "involved with cyber-bullying".
    When I originally started my research I felt that mental health issues had increased, and personally feeling that it is more common because of social media usage and cyber-bullying, I wanted to see if professionals saw a link as well. This article definitely backs up my thoughts and all I looked up was mental health and this was the first article to appear. I wanted to talk about my paper and connect it to this article, I was not expecting the article to almost completely back up everything I talked about in project one.