In this library session I learned about all the ways I could make my life easier in order to complete our next assignment. Gail taught us about the different ways we could learn more about the authors we read and learn from. More importantly, this helps us better understand their upbringings, biases, and other important […]
Kantz writes that realm of which I student is doing his research is called “the territory” or subject of the research one is conducting. While the gaps are the holes of knowledge we have to fill for better understanding of a topic. So for me, my territory is the actual scu.library, this is where […]
Today we had an optional peer review, and it was actually a lot nicer than I thought. Before my motivation for coming to the peer review session was just for extra credit, but it turned out that it didn’t just help me in the fact that It might have boosted my participation grade (most likely […]
In ‘Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively’, Margaret Kantz talks about what to do before, during and after we read. Before reading, she believes we require a moment of preparation so that we can get ready. We can do this by thinking about an argument we’ve recently had that people have disagreed on. This helps […]
Today we peer reviewed our annotations and reflections. For this class, I got a lot of feedback that helped with my revision when I got home. A lot of people told me that I needed more of the connectivity between all more sources. They said I did a great job at summarizing, and raising the […]
The article I found had to do with student nutrition, and how certain aspects of a colleges’ dining system affects things like student health. I completed a Boolean search and entered College* or student* or dining* in my search bar. This gave me approximately 152 sources to pick from, where I individually searched for […]
Today we put our math skills to the test with some graph analyzing, and calculating. This week we sent out our surveys, and all accumulated some data for interpretation. Dr. Lueck taught us how to give ‘satisfaction’ a numerical value. Giphy She did this by taking the ratings we got and multiplying each value […]
After my midterm check with Dr. Lueck, I decided to make some changes with my blogging habits. One thing that I definitely shouldn’t have done was save the last 4 of them to do the night before, but I don’t anticipate that this will happen if I just did my blog posts the day it […]
Today we learned about how to construct a survey for our Survey report assignment. Using Google Forms, we were trying to learn how to make a survey both succinct and effective. Since students these days have extremely short attention spans, it may be hard for them to focus on completing a survey that exceeds even […]
