10/22 Fliter Bubble

 A filter bubble is when the internet automatically picks out certain websites that it feels is best for you based on the other site you may regularly look up. The potential drawback for this is that when trying to boarding you search it is nearly impossible because you are in such a constricted area of exactly what you need to look up. The types of website that may be pulled up or the different information that maybe pulled up may not be suitable for exactly what you are looking up at the time. The potential problems that this can cause on academic research is that you might not be able to find sites that you professor may assign to you.  The filter bubbles may only bring up stuff that compares to your social life not your academic life. The only way that you may be able to escape these filter bubbles if you go to your school library which might not be accessible to you at all times. This can hold you back for getting actually creditable sources that you might need for something that has to do with your academics. I really haven’t noticed or really was aware about filter bubbles so I wouldn’t know exactly how it has effect my personal life. I assume that it has held me back from possible information that would be worthwhile to me.
 

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rhetorical devices

i dont really watch alot of tv but i do go on youtube at least once a day and i was watching a natural hair video and it was really a debate on natural vs hair that has chemicals in it. in this video the first rhetorical device that stood out the most to me was the use of appeal to nature the female in the video was really for all natural products she argued that natural products where better for your hair simply because it was all natural and the other one that was used was black or white pretty much talking down on each others points and saying that the was no middle ground it was either you where natural or not  and one of the last ones that i could see with out truley look for it was appeals to emotion of course the females going on in this debate hair was of the content they argued and was from personal stories andwas to the point making not really valid argueements that could be back up with facts but only what they have gone through. i feel like you would find the most rhetorical devices in dabates cause people would say alot for you to be on their side

plagiarism

I learned about plagiarism at a young age i think it was brought to my attention around middle school. my basic knowledge is when you takes someone else work and call it your own. many people do not know what is consider plagiarism. to list a couple there is the copying word for word and calling it your own work. or the other way of simply switching out a couple of words and calling it your own work. many do not know that you can use the copy paste method its just the fact that you have to cite and give credit where credit is due.  many do not realize it but plagiarism is simply stealing even though many do not think they are doing something wrong they are i feel that one of the ways we can stop plagiarism is that computers are built to where if someone is copying a document it required that the citation goes along with it before leaving the page. or we need to learn more about all the steps on how to cite a page and what  are all the different types of plagiarism at a younger age i think those two methods would slow down or even stop plagiarism all together    word count:206

10/8

My major is psychology I’m really not good with research at all. Think that the stuff that I learn in this class will help me learn more about my major. When I did this challenge of trying to find out what is better I did find a way that I can learn more.  Going through both the Galileo and the subject specific they both brought up good things. I feel like it I wanted to get more information on a subject that subject specific would put me right to what I needed. If i wanted to go in depth on exactly what psychology really is   this is the place that I need to go. It brought up articles and different books it brought up certain types of things that you can look at different views of psychology. Discovery brought up stuff but it was way too much for me and it was too much to have to go through to find out about this subject. Both of them are good to look for information but I feel like if you need something to support an argument than subject specific is the way t go but if you need something to look up general information and you have a lot more time on your hands than discovery is the way to go. 

research portfolio 10/8

Research question: what is the relationship between the actions of the Klu Klux Klan ad the definition of xenophobia?
My argument for this is that maybe the people that where involved with the Klu Klux Klan suffered from the illness xenophobia.  I feel like that is why the members of this group had acted the way that they did towards the African Americans. The fear that they had towards this group shows why they felt they had to do the action of trying to eliminate the different culture/race out of fear. The other sources that I think would be useful in my research are a lot of scholarly journals that touch on the subject of the Klu Klux Klan and the behavior that they show throughout the years.  I also think reference material of the xenophobia and the actions that people take will give me a better insight and a better support system to my argument. I feel like all my information has to come from that have been surfaced for years because I’m dealing with something that happens many years ago. The research has to very knowledgeable. So scholarly journals, reference materials, books and government paper work is the only thing that I feel will help me out. Others like television newspapers and magazines will not be useful to me.


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Galileo

Galileo is  pretty much a library  online. It is Georgia Library learning online. It is made for students that are in Georgia to get access to material that maybe there on campus library might not have. Its not only for books but it can help you look up different thing like articles scholarly journals and movies etc. Galileo is also built  to where is you needed extra help they can connect you to librarians that will be able to help you and guide you on your research journey. The fact that its all categorized for you helps even more if you are looking for something in just a certain section you can go on there and it would being of sources that only have to do with that topic. A database is something that yo can go onto to look for different types of sources. Databases are usually structured according to subject which helps it make it easier on you to find information.  It also lets you pin point what is your library. I feel as a student that goes to school in Georgia that this is a great and helpful site that can bring me to the right direction on any type of research that i am doing.

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