For this assignment, I chose to interview a local student who is an upper level junior about her choices in her research papers. Kristin Baldridge is a current University of West Georgia student and she is one of the two tutors for Alpha Xi Delta's study group. She currently holds the position as academic chair where she oversees and helps girls throughout the chapter with their schoolwork. She is a double major in special education and speech pathology with a minor in psychology. Her previous research papers were based on Children Psychology, How Obesity effects children in the United States, Sexuality of Children and Young adults, and even did research on Teen Pregnancy in the United States. Her sources were old school; she chose to use the library for majority of her research. She used books that had useful information and statistics to help her with writing her papers. Kristin also looked to her professor's and other educatepersonals on the campus that have also done research on the same subject and used their research to conduct her papers. Other materials she used were Newspaper articles and sometimes magazines. Her sources helped her achieve high grades on her research papers and also helped her inform others with useful information.
So she found some of her sources by looking up researchers here and seeing what they have published? That's a different method than anyone else has mentioned, but it's a good way to stay on top of things in a specialized field!
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