search engines

Throughout my researching I have come across many articles that aren't relevant to my topic at all. I have learned to not only read the title of the article but to also click into the link and to read partial of the actual article. Some of the hits that the computer picks up are ridiculous. One or two words can pick up over 1200 hits alone. By looking through and actually reading or even skimming the article can lead to much more appropriate and even useful information. Most of the hits that the computer picks up are not what you are looking for and there are better hits out there that are more useful. By narrowing your search down for example by looking under a psychology or social search engine will also be very healpful.

library assignment

Today our class met in the APC building, in a room with computers. We were allowed to use these computers to complete an in class assignment. This assignment was related to our final research paper. We had to under mywcc and into the Todd library to complete this mission. This assignment had us realistically narrow down out topic and find the word or words that would be our primary search engine topic. After that we had to search these terms under different search engines and see how many hits we got and how many of those were relevant, on the first page. The words that ended up to be my final search engines were the words serial killer and media entertainment. This assignment was very helpful and even useful in my essay. It also familiarized with the website and search engines.

Research!!

I have recently started looking on the Waubonsee Todd Library and have started looking for books that I will use in order to complete and start my research paper. My teacher has spent every class showing us different search engines to use as under Purdue Owl and the Todd Library. This information is greatly appreciated and that I will be using. She also said that we need to start ordering books now! The libraries say that it takes generally three weeks to mail a book out. When we only have roughly seven to eight weeks to do the paper we need to find books fast and not only that but to find the right books or articles with the right information that can to our paper and make then sound better!!!

1st peer review

My partner for my first peer review was my neighbor in class Jamie. She was the one who was going to critique my paper and hand it back to me, as I would correct her paper also and hand it back to her. While reading her paper, which was also about tetxing while driving, I learned a lot. I also saw how each person has a different way of writing their paper, as to the words they use, the way they set it up, and even to their opening and closing statements. Her paper gave me ideas for mine, as top changing my opening statement and to make it more interesting. She also made corrections on my paper which made me understand what I did wrong and what I needed to change to make my paper overall better.

Other writings

While i am still finding more research about serial killers, I am also working on another paper. This paper is about texting while driving, and how it is as high of a risk as drunk driving. This paper has taken a lot of my focus of off my serial killer paper which is a bigger project. I'm finding that I need to do more time management and to target my main focus on the paper than is handed out at the time, while still concentrating attention and write down notes for that final research paper. The class assignments I believe are going to get harder and harder as the weeks pass on. The length of the papers are probably going to be roughly the same until the couple final of weeks. The class in it self it going okay and the conversations that we have during class are intresting. My teacher shows my class a lot of different websites to find books and articles under.

response to topic

I turned in the topic for my first paper which was What gives serial killers that spark of aggressiveness? My teacher replied with saying that they're aren't many serial killers to begin with and they really don't approach killing in a emotional way, that its more of a business stance. So with that being said I will be researching on to see how accurate the depiction of serial killers actually is. I believe that this is a better approach and will be easily more understood. I really enjoy my topic. Hopefully it will be easy to find books and articles on this topic. This is soo intresting and I believe my reader will also enjoy reading my paper as well.

About myself

In order to write my first paper or even to come up with the topics I had to find out things about myself. First off my name is Samantha. I have attended a catholic school my whole life. Waubonsee college is my first public school. I have been in sports since the 5th grade. I'm planning on getting my major in nursing. Some hobbies that I enjoy would be hanging out with friends family and boyfriend, shopping, walking and jogging with my dog, tanning, swimming, and outdoors things. Some aspects that I enjoy learning about are in the medical fields. Some ideas on the psychological field would be on how humans think, and even to the physical side to nutrition.