March 31,2010

I thought that the APA workshop was very helpful in understanding how to cite work. I enjoyed the powerpoint and the presentattion was very well done. I will use the owl website in the future when citing my papers.

March 29,2010 (2)

I found this topic because I was confused on what to do the project on and went several weeks looking for a topic until Alan gave me a great idea to research Mother’s who work and the result that has on the child or children. This topic is important to me because I had a very involved Mother and I was interested to see what effect that had on me and what effect that my peers who had mother’s who work have on them. When it came to finding sources I used Ebsco host and Wilson Web along with a few books that I found in the library. The woman who came in from the library and talked to us about finding sources and where to find them made it so much easier to find what sources fit with my topic. My views on my topic did not change while reading my sources because I did had not formed an opinion before reading the articles and books. I had gone into reading the information with an open mind and ready to consume as much knowledge as possible. A positive outcome from reading my sources was, my topic became more refined and that in turn made it easier to gather the right information. In my study I will be using surveys and interviews to gather information for my topic. My challenge thus far is being a little overwhelmed with the amount of work other than just sitting down and writing the paper that it takes to conduct this project. The making of the surveys and finding time to interview people along with writing the actual paper is what I am finding challenging.

March 29,2010

Lester James wrote a short passage explaining the excessive usage of direct quotes in student’s research paper. According to Lester (1976), only 10% of a final paper should be quotes the rest paraphrasing and analyzing information. Over using quotations is a result of taking notes of too many quotes and therefore only using them in a final paper.

March 15,2010

1. I think a social change I am making as a member of society is that responsibility is not a bad thing. I am a member of a sorority and I think many people do not get involved because they do not want to be responsible for things and not be bothered with getting things done. But I am not afraid to take on certain tasks. I think I can help tip this but including people in things that they would have normally not wanted to be included in. And I think a great way to get people involved is to take a leader of the group and get her involved because then the rest will follow.


2. I think that chapter 4 was the most influential for me because it was the one I was responsible for, for the presentation so I think I read into it with the most depth. It was about the Power of Context and how not to judge a book by its cover which I think that I have a problem doing sometimes, as we all do.

3. I think after reading the Tipping Point I will walk away with a better sense of how to act in the business world and remove myself from a situation and then evaluating it. For example, I tend to not stay so connected with people and connectors always stay connected so I think that I will try hard and stay connected with as many people as I can. In order to strengthen relationships and for connections down the line I may need.

Questions from Paper

4. I am very conservative and I do believe that a person is a product of his environment as well as who he is as a person. The Broken Window theory and The Power of Context believe that it is all where the criminal grew up who his parents were and so on, not blaming any of the behavior on the person just what his circumstances were. I do not believe this to be true because for example there are plenty of crimes who had great childhoods with good moral homes who went out committing crimes. On the other hand there are people with abusive homes, and awful morals trying to make better for not only his/her community for them as well. So as a conservative I do believe that committing a crime is based on who you and where you came from.




5. I believe that is prison conditions were to change it would not impact the behavior of the inmate. We wanted to truly change inmate behavior; they would have to be treated as equals and not looked down upon. This inevitably means not making them criminals anymore. The mentally of you are down here because you committed a crime verses I am up here because I did not would have to change in order for the behavior to change. I think it’s more mental than environmental.