make extensive lists (Five Lists)

List ten to twenty question categories
1. Education
2. Field of Study
3. What interested you about it
4. How do you feel about it
5. Why are you still doing this
6. Best part of the job
7. Worst part of the job
8. Advice for me
9. How does this help
10. Why

Make a list of five or more things that you can do to make your informant feel comfortable, powerful, and open to your interview
1. Adress them formally
2. Ask advice
3. Be polite
4. Everyone loves to talk about themselves...
5. So ask open ended questions

List three or more things that you can do in case your informant doesn’t have a lot to say about the topic.
1. Change topic
2. Ask someone else
3. Re-think your approach

Make a list of ten to fifteen factual details that you might want to know related to your topic such as: historical facts, multiple perspectives, geography, daily life, economic factors, weather, current events, fashions, local events, state events, national events, how to information, materials, prices, national trends, origin, changes over time, future plans, etc.
1. Historical facts
2.Multiple perspectives
3. Pay
4. Daily life
5. Changes in treatment
6. New diagnosis
7. New treatment
8. Different forms of treatment
9. Career path
10. Something else

 Make a list of five or more academic topics that a sociologist, psychologist, or folklorist might study about this group, person, or place. Your textbooks or professional journals for other fields might give you some ideas.
1. Well, my topic is psychology so I'd imagine that they would research/talk about everything related to their specific field.

find ideas. (Link to a Multi-Genre blog)

Here's the link.

Enjoy,
Michelle

research research research (Multi-Genre Project Proposal)

It's decided. Yay, I guess.

Type: Career Intrest

Names: Dr. Kelly Ward (via email) and

Stories/Events/Insider Info: I'll have to do more research to go off of primary sources of patients and doctors to create my project.

Personally Meaningful: I find this topic to be very interesting and it applies to my personal interest in Psychology.

Alternatively: I will do the project about music if psychology  doesn't pan out like I  hope it will.

After some deep thought and meditation, I've decided to go with the subject of Psychology. I think I'll do the research portion on the history of mental hospital ethics and treatments.

Other portions will vary - perhaps some letters to and from patients, an analysis of a specfic case or treatment, some insane ramblings, creative writing, etc.

Sounds like fun.

Cheers,
Michelle

think of things (Ideas for the Multigenre Project)

1. Something Psychology related. Possibly history of? Possibly a specific disease/affliction?

2. Music. Specifically orchestral or viola in general. Could have some cool sound projects. Again, possibly history of / specific event.

3.London. I'm obsessed with the city, but I don't know nearly enough about it. But what to choose?

I need some help, what to do? What not to do, and why? I'll be thinking about it this weekend I suppose.

Cheers,
Michelle

reflect (Reflection on the pop culture project)

Here's my lovely freewrite on writing a paper about Mean Girls. I began researching by looking up some legit reviews on the movie. It helped to know the professional's opinion. I printed them off and highlighted the important bits to form my own opinion.

This paper made me realize how movies can subconciously affect the audience and influence their perspective and other deep stuff as such.

Anywho, it was easy to construct the paper with my personal evidence and the quotes from the reviews. It was interesting. And I got to watch Mean Girls  a few times.

Go watch it,

Michelle



read a lot (Article 1 Response)

HAL

Below lies my response to the extremely long article I was forced to read. About..... attention span and such. Enjoy.

The first line grabbed my attention because I've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey so the quotes went through my mind like HAL's voice. Creepy. I'm hoping the rest of the article makes obscure references I may understand.

Wow. I absolutely agree with his views on his mind changing. It used to be that you couldn't see me without a book in my hand. Now? I've barely finished one in the school year. It may be a part of growing up, of having other things to do. School to worry about, responsibilities weighing down. I'm still working to get out of this slump.

Maybe the Internet is to blame.

I skim things to get information. Journalism's inverted pyramids have corrupted me. I seriously doubt if anyone is going to read this entire blog post!

addicted to easy

"It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense."

Absolutely.

I just caught myself skimming through the next four paragraphs, and I have no will to go back and read it.

Just read something about Google HQ being a church and the ambition of Google to have quick and easy information out to internet users. All hail Google.

I think the author of this article is skeptical of his skepticism... But is still standing firm with it. Yet telling us to be skeptical about it. Now who's attention span is messed up?

AND HE BRINGS IT BACK TO HAL called it. That part of the movie is creepy, and sad. HAL is afraid (even in his creepy computer voice) and you feel for him. You feel for a machine that was trying to kill you.

Wow, tangent. The Space Odyssey reference distracted me the whole time. Despite having the LONGEST and MOST BORING beginning, the movie has a lot to say about technology being capable of bringing pain and destruction - even on the mind.

Cheers if you read this entire thing,
Michelle

P.S. I consciously wrote a few sentences beginning with "and" and "but" to break that imaginary rule that has been dictating my idea of the proper sentence most of my life.