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Hello All! Over my past couple English classes me and my classmates have been sharing our findings on the research topics of our choosing. As you guys know I chose to focus my research on whether or not social media plays into misogyny, i.e. the social and sexual pressures on college-aged girls (check out my last … Continue reading »

Hello All! As I’m sure you have seen from my last couple posts I have spent a great deal of this quarter looking into social media and it’s various effects. In this post I want to steer away from social media’s effects on our social standards and focus a little more on how it effects … Continue reading »

Hello all!!! For those of you who don’t know I recently set out to discover whether or not social media has increased the social and sexual pressures on young girls (research questioned explained in Research Question: Social Media vs. Social Pressures). For the past three weeks I have spent endless hours researching a variety of … Continue reading »

For class today my English teacher encouraged us to look at a classmate’s blog post and write a response. After looking through many of my peers blogs, I found an article written by my friend Morgan entitled “The Little Things Matter“. The post, which was not only extremely well written, covered an assortment of feminist … Continue reading »

Hello all! So after my last couple posts addressing a) proper research skills and b) the process of performing archival research (and my very personal findings), I am now writing to tell you all how I plan to apply this knowledge into a topic I feel deeply about (yes you guessed it, feminism). For my … Continue reading »

For class this week I was assigned to read the article “BEAM: A Rhetorical Vocabulary for Teaching Research-Based Writing” by Joseph Bizup. In the article Bizup introduces a new way of thinking about the sources students use when conducting research projects. Bizup suggests instead of looking at the sources based off what form they are, … Continue reading »

Throughout my high school experience I performed research one way. I received a topic, I researched said topic for said answers, and then wrote about said answers in a paper I’d likely outlined before I’d even researched said topic. However, after reading the article “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This … Continue reading »

As suggested in my last two posts, I was recently assigned an archival research project on old documents regarding Santa Clara University. Despite my hatred for research (which I describe fully in Research is my Nemesis), I was actually pretty excited to look at archives from my very own university. I knew I was interested in … Continue reading »

When researching archives there are many things you must take into consideration. While some of these things may seem almost subconscious (author, date, etc.), there are a decent amount of questions you must ask that go beyond the surface of the archive. Past the obvious, the first thing I try to ask myself when conducting … Continue reading »

As a girl who genuinely loves learning and enriching her education, it may come as surprise that I HATE research. It’s the formality of it all. Typically it’s over a topic I don’t really care about,  I’m required to collect information from certain (extraordinarily complicated) databases, and to be frank, bibliographies straight up give me … Continue reading »