Observation 5

As far as my research is going, I've been mostly looking at campaigns online that agree with my hypothesis and campaigns that are opposed to it.  The visual mapping was very helpful with the research process because I separated each possible subject into different categories to further allow me to research as many subjects as I can to better my understanding of my research topic.

Observation 5

I have not done a lot of research when it comes to scholarly journal articles. Since these movies are very recent, it is hard to find academic articles on them. When it comes to movie reviews, articles on the movies, and articles on the slow degrading of the human race, I have found a lot of information. I have a lot of opinions of a lot of different people on each of the movies and how they affected them. I think I will have a lot more success when I actually go to the library, instead of trying to search through our library's database.

Observation 5

So far my research is going well. I have interviewed some people about college websites and have received positive feedback. I have not started my research online, but I am going to begin that shortly. I need to also get some books on websites and on the formats of websites and how they relate to the general message that websites are trying to portray. All of these will be beneficial to my research paper on the effectiveness of college websites on students.

Observation 5

My research so far has given me enough material to start putting together a visual outline of where I would like to go with my paper. I have found visual rhetoric that supports my tentative thesis about Obama's campaign. At this point, all of my research has come from online sources. These are good sources, but I think from here it might be a good idea to find some other sources from other locations. YouTube, GoogleImages, and BarackObama.com have all been extremely useful.

As of now my research has been going pretty well. I have found some magazine articles as well as TV shows. I also found an informational paper in my dorm that is full with many facts. It states fact such as "42% of 3rd grade girls want to be thinner", "81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat", and " The average American woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 pounds. The average American model is 5'11" and weighs 117 pounds". These are some scary stats and I believe i will be able to find more stats like this.

Observation 5-Emily McCanless

So far, my research has been quite productive. I have found some sources that I can use for my argument in regards to abortion and how easily people are persuaded through the use of rhetoric. I still need more substantial sources that can give me alot of information but I have found some interviews, articles, and websites that appeal to different emotions associated with pro-life and pro-choice. I am having trouble finding sources that don't include information on the "ethics" of abortion rather than how each stance appeals to different emotions through rhetoric.

We also used a software, FreeMind, that helped us "map-out'' our reserach ideas. Although the program was difficult to navigate, considering we were given no prior instruction on how the program worked, it did make the paper "come to life" before your eyes. For me, I enjoy being able to visually picture things and the mind-mapping idea is great for doing this because nothing is concrete therefore you can extend your thoughts to wherever you want, so that you don't leave anything out. Then once this is done and you have looked at different perspectives of your topic, you can narrow down what you want to write about based on the direction your argument took as you "mapped" it out.

observation 5

My research has gone decent so far. I have still yet to narrow down my topic to a specific piece of rhetoric to use but I have many ideas that I can go with. I changed topics a few days ago to have to do with something about global warming because this is a topic I am passionate about and I have not gotten the time to word map my idea but once I do I know it will help conceptualize my topic better. I plan on researching how the media portrays global warming to the world and compare that to what is actually happening.