Eliana's English Blog

  Prompt: What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements. Some challenges that my group faced were deciding  which source would be the best. Since we had three people there where 3 different choices of sources to choose from and it got hard at some times. To overcome this challenge we all discussed the pros and cons in each of the sources to help narrow it down for everyone.  Like for example, for the data/statists everyone had a good source that showed very credible and impressive data. They were all helpful and gave great information that we all could have used so we had trouble. We eventually chose the data that was the easiest to read and understand. We decided this as a group because we collectively knew that it would be easiest to extract information from. Summary- Choosing sources for our group for the research.  Reflection-...

  Prompt:  Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research. My research topic is parenting styles. So for the research I have been doing have been on the four major parenting styles that are recognized and how they affect the child and their development . I have been researching about how child aggression can stem from the parents and how to handle it. I find this topic to be interesting because most everyone grows up with a guardian or someone that looks out for them even if its not a parent, and its interesting to see how the person who raised you can affect what kinda of person that you become. When I was trying to find the sources for my research I found some pretty interesting articles about how to handle change within the family or even about how when the father is presen...

  Prompt: How has completing the annotated bibliography changed or clarified your understanding of your research topic? Discuss how your sources connect to one another and how they are shaping your argument moving forward Through completing my annotated bibliography I am able to fully understand all the different views and options on my research topic: parenting styles. When I was reading though the sources I was able to understand ow parenting affects the child and the development. I learned about how to help your child with behaviors and more. All my sources connect with each other  by the one big topic hat connects them all which is parenting. Most of my sources also reinforce the same thing which is how positive parenting is positive for your child rather than authoritarian parenting .  Summary- Finishing the annotated bibliography. Reflection- Learning more to look for reliable sources.  

  Prompt: Which part of the annotated bibliography (summary, reflection, or evaluation) was the most challenging for you, and why? Explain how that challenge helped you grow as a researcher and how it will help you when writing your research paper. The most challenging part of the bibliography was probably the evaluation. It was challenging to find proof of credible sources that the author used for their sources especially if it seemed like it was leaning towards a certain opinion. With that in mind I keep an eye out for good cited sources and checked if the person was credible though the information provided from the from the cite. Writing with credible sources is super important because you need to make sure that the information you are giving in your research is true and not sourced from a not trusted cite.  Summary- We started on the annotated bibliography  Reflection- Learning how to write the annotated  bibliography 

  Prompt: As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue. There are many different sources talking about good parenting and how they positively affect childhood and how the child is positively effected by this. I have also seen some sources talking about negative parenting and the negative effects I can have on the children. With both sides of a topic it will be harder to have a bias on a certain perspective. And with the number of different sources I can fully understand how everyone has different experiences and it is actually a very complex and very wide thought of topic that is highly discussed.  Summary- We did more researching for our project.  Reflection- Learning how to cite pictures and find good political cartoons.  

  Prompt: Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found. In the past I have used Google as my main search engine to find my sources for past research projects. GALILEO is different because it already automatically give me credible and good sources that I can easily choose from. The quality of the sources is so much better and I can know that my work and the information that I am putting in my work is good. Using key words and good, clean, and clear search phrases made it easier to find what I was trying to find. With the good search terms I can narrow down the sources and clearly find what I want.   Summary- We started to research and find sources for our project. We put them in the google drive and in the Google Doc.  Reflection- Knowing how to cite sources and how to st...