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Freshman Year Takeaways

For my last blog post, I thought it would be interesting to go back throughout my freshman year and SCU and recap and some things that I learned in my first year of college. It has been a great year … Continue reading

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Disproving Opinions vs. Understanding Them

One of the bigger troubles I had while writing my research paper was understanding the difference between disproving people’s opinions and understanding them. When initially writing my paper on the conversation of diversity, I tried to disprove other people’s opinions … Continue reading

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Multimodal Project

This is my final product for my multimodal project. It takes the form of a news broadcast covering the misconceptions of diversity on college campuses. I am playing the role of a reporter in which I go over statistics of … Continue reading

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Final Reflections

After going through the whole process of the researching, understanding and writing about the conversation of diversity at college campuses today, I learned a great amount of the research process as a whole. Some of the important point that I … Continue reading

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Translating to Multimodal

Translating a research argument to a multimodal project is a very interesting thing to do as you are translating writing to different forms of communication whether it be audio or even video formats. One could take many routes when transforming … Continue reading

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The Gap

When writing a research paper, there is usually a section of the conversation that is found where more information is needed to fully understand that portion of paper. This gap where there is a hole in the information can spread … Continue reading

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Integrating Sources

One important part of writing a research paper is being able to integrate your sources into your paper in an effective manner while also remembering to give credit. This sometimes proves to be a difficult task and can make or … Continue reading

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Article Research Process

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 … Continue reading

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Diversity in the United States (Immigration Act of 1986)

Given that my research topic for this quarter is diversity at SCU and the Multicultural Center (MCC),  I thought it would be interesting to do some more background on diversity in the United States during the time that the MCC was … Continue reading

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Immigrant Animosity

When looking for an image that spoke to my research question of the Multicultural Center and diversity at SCU, I came across a great modern day example that is the pinnacle why the MCC was created and also shows what … Continue reading

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