Guided Questions, Week 9 (Question 1)

 Entry 39:

Reflection

Topic: What are the benefits and limitations of the specific methods you selected in order to research your question(s)?

    Personally, problems that I encountered while conducting my primary research was figuring out how to get out my survey to a variety of age groups, I figured social media would be the easiest way to just send it out- it was. Although, I wish I could have gotten a few surveys from people outside of my papers focus group, so that I would have more data. While I think social media helped me to get my survey out quickly, I think that maybe I could have used several of my accounts for the variety I was looking for. So, it created a limitation of having less data and probably created a bit of bias. Limitations from my secondary research would be there are not a lot of articles on my topic and also I had to learn how to use different databases, just more help for future projects in my life though!

    Benefits however included an easier way for my friends to share it with their friends and family. I also got data from my age group of study. The other methods of research was using different databases, there were a lot of benefits from that. I got data from several years ago (within the seven year time frame) and I got to see so many different views on my topic and could take a lot of notes. 

  

Methods to Reading

 Entry 38

Research and Reflection

Topic: Ways to Read 

There are several different ways to read, it depends on what and why you are reading. If you are reading because you enjoy it, you will probably read it front to back, every single word written in the book- but this is just one way of reading. There is a different way of reading depending on what you are reading and why you are reading it, your purpose matters in how you choose to read. 

Other methods to reading:

1.  Pillaging, this includes "stealing" tips and tricks in order to use them in a practical way, people use this method when reading books that teach new methods. 

2. Skimming, I think everyone is familiar with this term. I use this when reading long articles to find what I am looking for then I read it in depth, or I use this when rereading something to further understand (and find what I am looking). 

3. Stretch, reading texts that are a bit out of your range but forcing yourself to try to get through it. This is mostly used when trying to advance your reading abilities.

4. Rerun, this just means you are reading your favorite(s) book(s) over again. Your purpose for this is for pleasure. 

5. Failed reading, you did not complete the reading. When you read too much, you are allowed to give up on books and reading- sometimes you may circle back to it and finish reading it, until then it is considered to be a "failed" reading. 

Link: 7-different-ways-to-read

Peer Review

 Entry 37:

Reflection

Topic: Peer Review

    A peer review is designed to assess the quality, validity, and originality of articles before its publication. The main goal of peer review is to maintain the integrity of science by filtering out any invalid and poor quality articles.

    Peer reviews check the authors writing to make sure that everything is good before it gets published, these are meant to be helpful so that the article makes sense to any readers and are entirely credible sources for others to use. 

    I have done peer reviews in other classes but the most recent peer reviews I have done in other college classes were in my creative writing classes and it was for workshop, we more so offered critiques so that their poems and stories were good so that for our writing portfolio, everything sounded good. 

    The peer reviews in this class are a bit more work and we have less partners but more to read, also the work is more in depth whereas in my creative writing class we were writing things that did not require research and were meant to be fun to read or write. 

Guided Question Week 8, (Question Part 3)

 Entry 36:

Reflection

Topic: In what ways has working from proposal 1 to the start of project 2 been useful?

From writing the proposal to writing half of a draft for project 2 made it easier to write. The proposal gave me time to gather research and we already started building and practicing ideas and writing for project 2. I think I could have written all 10 pages easily because of the set up the proposal helped me with. I have collected so much research and I could easily interview friends and maybe a professor, or send out a survey to people within the age group I have made my focus group. Proposal 1 was basically collecting research and project 2 is the writing of the research collected- our class is all connected and it makes it easy to do the work. I could write my paper in a day, if I wanted, because the set up and ideas have been developed in other assignments and research has already been done and I just need to form it all into words now. Working from that to starting project 2 has been insanely easy and I appreciate the set up of the class to help me with my research paper, I have never felt so confident in my writing!

Works Cited Page

 Entry 35

Research/Multimodal

Topic: How to create a works cited page

When you write a paper and are using direct quotes, you need to cite your sources and then at the end of your paper you should have a works cited page. If you are unsure how to create one google docs has an add-on feature that can help, there are citation generators or you could use the internet to find the format you need. 

There are a variety of writing formats to use MLA, APA and more, those two are the only ones I have ever really used seriously in writing. 

MLA^

APA^

Guided Question, Week 8.

 Entry 34:

Reflection

Topic: What benefits come with peer review?

Some benefits that come with peer review would be getting new perspectives, constructive criticism, and more. When peer reviewing or receiving feedback from a peer review, you get new perspectives on your paper, from people who did not do or collect the same, if any, research on your topic. They critique your work with their own knowledge on the topic or with what you talk explain, and they will tell you any serious issues with your argument or writing. Peer review can also help you to create any new arguments that they could think of with what they read. Peer reviews overall, help to better your work so that it is presentable and to the best ability that it can be.