Daily Blog 1/8/18

In class today we delved deeper into the preparation of our senior papers. To start off class, Mr. Rivers assigned a poll to help refine and understand the school's YouTube filter. The task is to locate a music video, movie trailer, and a scene from any movie or TV show you've recently watched, and keep tabs on which videos you were able to watch on the school WiFi. Following that, we discussed the proper procedure for furthering our research in terms of our senior paper. As we already had our non-academic article analysis completed, today was a day to be put toward changing your article, or utilizing databases to find academic articles. The academic articles must follow the following requirements:

-Linked full text
-Academic/Peer-Reviewed sources
-START with the abstract
-Dates: 2014-today!
-SAVE PDF OR PERMALINK
-CITATION INCLUDED!

These sources can be found on any of the school's provided databases, but the recommended are EBSCO-HOST and Gale Group. The same analysis is to be done on these articles as the non-academic article.

The academic analysis we are learning through this research can be applied to not only our senior paper, but any future research we choose to do. This senior paper, or mine at least, is going to apply to my college major, and this lens of research that I will examine articles with will help me prepare for college. Also, my non-academic article has already forced me to look deeper into an episode of Black Mirror I watched, so I can imagine an academic article will do the same for my intended major.

Today was dedicated to research, and the next two days will be as well, so be prepared with your Chromebook for class this week especially.