Discuss below in a 150 words each:
1: Phuong Nhat Tran
At the beginning of week, I felt finding references for my research paper was a little bit difficult. My topic is "women in mass media" and my research question is "Why women are affected by the media the most?" I tried to search articles that were related to my research question through Cypress Library, Gale Literary Sources, and I found two articles from this source. They are "Selling the self: women and the feminine seduction of advertising" of Kristine Blair and "Gender Issues in Advertising Language" of Nancy Artz. In addition, I also did another searching on other resources and found one more article that was "The Role of the Media in Body Image Concerns Among Women: A
Meta-Analysis of Experimental and Correlational Studies" of Shelly Grabe. Overall, there was nothing resource that I thought it was the least helpful this week. However, I thought the Gale Literary Sources of Cypress Library was most helpful for me because it provided me two articles. During finding sources, I used keywords, such as "women", "media effects", and "advertising", and I refined my keywords as I went along. Moreover, I also found more keywords, such as "meta-analysis" and "body image". The database provided the most material for my topic was the result of the experiment in the article "The Role of the Media in Body Image Concerns Among Women: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental and Correlational Studies". I did not find sources from credible Internet sources. According to these article, I was able to find specific statistics to add to my essay. My impression overall of my research experience is writing a research paper is not easy and requires the writer to take time and follow the procedure to achieve it.
2: Nicole Conde
I had to research on my topic of, the impact of social media on society. I was surprised how difficult it was to actually find some research. Being that this topic is so relevant in this day and age, I thought I would find what I needed much easier. I read online day and night researching different things, but mostly things related to medicine. I am also very used to Google as a go to source, which I am sure is used most by everyone for quick information. I did find a good amount of information on the Pew Research Center which was very helpful. I ended up finding info that supported my points but was surprised to find quite a bit of info also supporting the other side of my point. That is probably what surprised me the most. It also gave me some perspective as well regarding the issue which was nice. I found other research under credible medical sites as well. I will be looking forward to using the Library resources for more research also.