When beginning to build my bibliography, I started with a very wide range of search criteria so that I could start to understand my conversation to the full extent. I researched all my academic articles on OmniFile through the SCU library database. At first I began to research more opinionated articles on diversity on college campuses so I could find out what scholars thought about the topic as well as what the general population felt.
After this, I realized that these opinions being expressed needed to be back up by concrete facts in order to understand the conversation to the fullest. If there was no legitimate evidence behind the claims that were being made in my paper, then who would be able to believe what I was saying?
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Due to this, I went on to find a multitude of surveys that gave legitimate statements about many things. Some of these topics concerned certain diversity levels at different schools as well as whether or not diversity helped or hindered the learning environment of the overall undergraduate population at certain schools.
With this data, I was able to come to many of my own conclusions about the topic which helped provide an alternative perspective in the paper and was a very important part of adding to the conversation as a whole.