Grayson’s American lit

  What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements. Prompt Response:  My group faced a few challenges while selecting and analyzing sources because of the wide variety of sources surrounding the war on terrorism. Even individually I had some trouble with deciding how recent or how long ago the examples should be from, and I overcame this by putting more effort into just collecting extra sources and picking which was most relevant throughout the whole timeline major and lesser events. Summary: Deciding what sources where applicable was an interesting discussion with my group. Reflection:  Going forward we need to continue working together as a group.

Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research.     Prompt Response:  My research topic being the War on terrorism is a very problematic and controversial topic because of course a very common agreement would be "Terrorism is bad". However, the real problems and arguments arise when it comes to what and how to handle terrorism. I find this extremely interesting because of all the different types of terrorism and solutions people come up with the topic is much larger than it seems and is full of issues. For example, the US has gone to war in countries like Iraq to target terrorist groups being harbored within the nation. Many saw this as good while others had many concerns with why we where in Iraq specifically. US soldiers also struggled to not kill civilians because that...

 Completing the annotated bibliography has given me a lot more direction of where I wanna go with my project. It has allowed me to see different sides, different views, different effects and overall just many many different stories. However, many seem to have the same goal. I’ve also learned throughout my sources that terrorism comes in more forms than I would’ve thought.

 For me, the hardest part of the annotated bibliography was honestly the summaries. It can be difficult to read such a long source and have to put it into so little words. It is also difficult sometimes to choose what exactly is linking it to your topic and how you’re gonna use the source to create a paper. 

   As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue. Prompt Response:  I have spent alot of time trying to find different perspectives on the war on terrorism and found many. Of course the common agreement is against terrorism its just that everyone seems to differ on how we should approach it. The differences between perspectives really shows why it is so hard and complex to fix the problem that threathens many. Summary: Everyone thinks we should handle ending terrorism differently. Reflection:  I need to continue finding more sources to expand my understanding.

  Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found. Prompt Response:  Galileo feels a lot different then google because of the sources being a lot more accurate and relative to the search prompt. Using strategies and key words improved the quality of my sources. I think Galileo and my new research strategies will help my project more thorough. Summary: Galileo and searching using key words has changed my research quality by a lot. Reflection:  I need to continue to learn more about researching more accuratlet and properly.