February 16, 2010

Today in class we did the activity with the moon and talked about the annoted bibliography. I am not looking forward to this bibliography because it seems extremely time consuming and very difficult. I do not have all the sources yet either, so I still need to make trips to the library and start searching the web. With the in class activity however, I do think that we did land on the moon, because it seems like there is too much information out there and too many people believing it for it not to be true.

February 4, 2010

I have my topic proposal almost done and ready to turn in for next Tuesday. After my conference, I have decided to narrow my topic down to adoptions that happen within the country. My cousins adopted internationally and that may be an easier topic for me to conquer, but I am up for the challenge and have many questions about what goes on with adopting in the United States. My big question when it comes to adopting within the country is why it is more difficult to adopt in American than it is to adopt internationally. I still have a lot to learn about this topic, but I am so excited to really get the research started so I can learn more.

January 26, 2010

My last post was about the topic I thought I was going to do my paper over. Show choir. I feel like I knew too much about show choir to make it a "research paper." I also couldn't find very many sources in our library on show choir. Since the last time I had to post a journal I have changed my mind. I am now going to do my paper over adoption. I am not in this subculture but my cousin did adopt two babies from Russia. I don't know much about the process itself other than it is a long, tedious process. I guess that will be my main question: what is the adoption process entail? I also want to know if it is expensive and whatnot. I have found books in the library and cannot wait to start researching this topic.

January 21, 2009

Today in class with my group I brought my topic of Show Choir to discussion with them. I was in show choir while in high school and this is a topic I would really enjoy doing some research on. One thing someone in my group told me is that I could see if the new t.v. show "Glee" has made show choir any more popular. Some other questions of mine are who is interested in show choir? What does it take to be a part of a group like this? What does show choir consist of? How did a group like this begin? Fundraising is a big part of show choir, why is this? What part of the country is it most popular in? How does it affect school work? What are show choir competitions like? How are students that are in show choir viewed by their peers who are not? Does show choir keep kids out of trouble because of how much time in consumes? How much does someone need to know about music to be apart of show choir? I haven't thought of one main questions, but these questions will get my brain working and help me decide on one definite question.

January 19, 2010

I have read the first assigned reading from the Bedford Researcher but I don't remember what I read so I am going to write about the syllabus. I like how she has every major assignment laid out on paper so we know what it is and how much it is going to be worth. At first I thought her attendance policy was a little strict but then after she explained it and said if we miss one class or none that we get points back, I understood it a little more and thought it was a reasonable policy. I do like that we get points for attendance because those are easy points to be earning towards our grade. One final thing about the syllabus, I like how she has we are going to be doing down to the day of the week so we know what to expect and nothing can take us by surprise.