Uptake Post #5

    My past experiences with research have always been for school so I have always had the traditional guidelines on how to make sure sources are reliable and to avoid wikipedia and things like that. I am starting to realize that you can use evidence that is not from scholarly articles and other similar items as long as it is backed up and proven evidence. What I have previously explained is how every teacher k-12 teaches and/or asks for students to do their research as well as citing it all in MLA format. The Grassroots article, "Inside the WTF Folder: Is That Really Research?" shows us multiple forms of research that are not considered to be the traditional type and would possibly not be allowed as evidence in high school. Some teachers would take points off when students use wikipedia as a source due to it not being considered trustworthy when it has multiple moderators fact checking the website all of the time. This article specifically talks about facebook memes and uses them as evidence for an academic writing. Our group project has more examples of not so traditional ways of researching topics. The bingo sheet we have for the class mentions multiple, including interviews, podcasts, blogs, etc. Most first year college students have never done research projects using evidence like that and this specific project has the added different ways of presenting as in literally presenting, which is the traditional option, or pre-recording a podcast to play for the class instead. I personally find the fact that anything can be used as evidence depending on what you are studying really interesting and cannot wait to see more proof and examples of that. My example of it is for this group project with the topic being living in Watterson Towers, my research relies on advertisements (this is also the basis of my drawing! an example of an advertisement I used).


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