Aidan CARD101 Blog

This past week, our class again had the opportunity to have a class in the library computer lab. Once again, we were with our school's librarian, Laura Cameron, who knew how to search for academic journal articles online. In CARD writing, we've started working on drafting our Rational Argument papers, and we've been assigned to find two academic journal articles that are peer-reviewed and original research. Building upon what we learned last week about the Cardinal Search tactic was learning how to research correctly. Therefore, the goal was for us all to have found our two academic journal articles by the end of our class. During our session in the library computer lab, we explored the library resource page that linked good websites to search for academic journal articles; a few of these included Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Nexis Uni, OmniFile Full Text (Wilson), and Opposing Viewpoints. My favorite of these has to be Academic Search Complete because it allows you to...

This past week, our class had the opportunity to have a class in the library computer lab, which was different and unique. I guess you would say we had a guest speaker, a librarian, who knew the ins and outs of all there was to the library. I believe her name was Laura Cameron. In CARD writing, we had just begun working on Rational Argument papers, and part of this assignment is the requirement to have a few academic journals. The problem is that finding these things using Google or Safari is extremely difficult. Therefore, the goal of the library lesson was to help us learn how to use the tools that the Oesterle library had made available to us as students. First, I learned much about media types and how they differ in areas like their academic style. A few of these resource types include things like Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, which are original research. There are Encyclopedia Articles that fit into the analysis and trends category, which you would consider slightly more academi...

 Hello World! This blog post tasked me with a current update on how I think the class is going from my perspective and what I've essentially taken away from it with 4 or 5 weeks of the semester left. I made my goal to make every class we had this semester, and I am still standing firm on that goal. Overall, since the 7th grade, I remember liking writing slightly; for example, I loved working on our assignments. Since then, writing has continually escalated and gotten much more difficult as specific requirements always exist. At college, the same situation exists as many requirements and things make you focus on every word you put on the page. This was especially evident in the Microtheme; I'm typically a person who writes a lot more words than is necessary because it simply takes me more words to get the point across, which proved to be a struggle because when I originally wrote the microtheme, I was a whole page over the one-page limit meaning I had to cut down my words. Doing...