Week Twelve

Welcome to this week's topic: Evaluating Information & Academic Research

This week has been rather slow, and I think that I am officially ready for this semester to end. On Tuesday, I hit an unwanted bump in the road because I didn't do as well on my economics exam as I hoped I would. I have never understood the phrase, "I studied, but I just didn't do well." Now, I get that. I was very upset to begin with, but as the week progressed, I eventually healed (dramatic, I know). I've had fun with my friends this week, and we watched Titanic Thursday, which was lots of fun and very therapeutic. Overall, it's been a good week.

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This week in FYE we have been talking about research. Ah, everyone's favorite type of paper to write. Thankfully, Dra. is not making us write a research paper, but she did give us an assignment where we had to conduct some research. I was not in class on Wednesday, but I was given a sheet where I could do the class work on my own time. On this sheet, we were asked to brainstorm a question that we could use as a possible research topic. I decided to use the idea, "Why is it so easy for people to adopt a "different" life online? I find this question to be very simple, but also intricate. I found two articles: one on Google and one on Galileo. On another sheet, we were told to evaluate our sources using the CRAPP test (1). The CRAPP tests consists of Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. All of these methods can be used to determine whether or not an article over your research topic will be beneficial.

On Monday, we also did a fun activity at the end of class to learn more about "fake news." I enjoyed this activity a lot, and it was interesting hearing everyone struggle to determine what was real and what was not real. The basis of this activity was to get us students to look carefully at what we read online because it may not always be true. FYE was interesting this week, and I look forward to this upcoming week!

Thanks for reading :)

Resources:
(1) https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wJbwQtIT0ot2i7h_rSPu7G2psV-JbSm7sWzTmTCTUA/edit?usp=sharing
(2) https://images.app.goo.gl/9TXwPrzgKWtbpzQr8