Category Archives: CTW

Thank You, Kantz

While I’m not sure if this is what Kantz was aiming for, the main thing that I learned from this reading was that nothing is fact unless you believe it is such. For example, if I were to claim that … Continue reading

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Successes and Failures of Researching: My Story

My research topic is about the changes in social life on college campuses since the 1920s. As I was looking for scholarly articles, I realized that my search results could go two ways: it could be extremely interesting, detailing the … Continue reading

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Torture? Or Tenacity?

As someone who has always liked writing, I sometimes find it confusing when people tell me that they would rather be finding the derivates of complex functions than writing a simple essay. Why is this? I’m going to go out … Continue reading

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Please Respond Below: Rise of the Survey

In our most recent class, we started learning about and crafting sample survey questions that we could use to gather information for our next assignments. In high school, I had to make my fair share of surveys. I made surveys … Continue reading

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A New Wave of Research

Most people would say that they don’t do much researching. Before this month, I would have said so myself. After the archival assignment, though, I started to rethink what researching really meant. Merriam-Webster defines research as: Studious inquiry or examination; … Continue reading

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Gather Close, We’re Hunting for Info…

When I hear the terms “hunter and gather”, I’m brought back to my Biological Anthropology course from last quarter. Klein mentions in his article, “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This?” about his newly created research … Continue reading

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Meet Me in the Middle, Dude

College has changed quite a bit. At least that’s what school websites and pamphlets will tell you. But has it really? For one thing, colleges have grown quite a bit. In the late 1920s, dorms were nowhere near as crowded as … Continue reading

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Is it Witchcraft? No it’s… Census Data

I’ve known about archives for a while and since I started digging into the black hole of genealogy, I’ve been curious about what stuff I could find there. At the Santa Clara Library (not the University library) there are no … Continue reading

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Discovering the Connections

As a Biology major, I don’t have many classes that ask for research papers. Sure, I’ll have the occasional paragraph to write about explaining the effects of titration or perhaps describing the synapomorphies of two species in a phylogenic tree. … Continue reading

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The Research Fixer-Upper

I like studying and I like researching. Every time I tell people this, I get the same reaction: raised eyebrows with confused stares. Yes, I’ve heard that it’s strange, but I love the process of searching through books in the … Continue reading

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