Week 8 The Last Week.

This week was pretty much like a cooking metaphor where we had our product, our onions, our cheese, our garlic, meat, and veggies and put it all together to create a dish that could be viewed and enjoyed. I have learned a lot this semester including how to properly research, how to write a literature review, plagiarism, and other skills meant to help you explore research methods. Since this was my first time writing a literature review and taking a research methods class it was very informative. According to my major there will be lots more literature reviews to practice on and I look forward to it. The only thing I would say I had trouble with was getting the citations correct, I did have a couple times where I had to go back and forth with the Purdue owl website. However, it was all worth it to know exactly how to cite and when. I took tips and information from this class and have begun to apply it to my life inside school and out. I thank everyone for their time and effort with me in this class!

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope to see everyone in other classes.

Jessica Kwong

Week 7

For this week I realized after I submitted my annotated bibliography, I forgot to alphabetize them! Every week is a learning process and this week I messed up. Besides the hiccup of this week I had never completed a annotated bibliography, so this week had a slight learning curve. The researching we have been doing the past 6-7 weeks has helped a lot and I feel confident in my researching skills. The only thing I found that was hard was finding too many articles I wanted to use in a different language! There was an article that had  great point of view on my topic, but I couldn't find a translated version. Did anyone else have this problem?

Research Question;
Nature and Nurture. The age old question, which contributes more to adolescent eating disorders?


Sources:

Hinney, A., & Volckmar, A. (n.d.). Genetics of Eating Disorders. Current Psychiatry Reports. 

 K, W., G, P., T, B., & M, R. (2014). A Qualitative Study of Males’ Perceptions about Causes of Eating Disorder.

Latzer, Y. (2011). Understanding eating disorders integrating culture, psychology and biology. New York: Nova Science.


Mazzeo, S., & Bulik, C. (2009). Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors for Eating Disorders: What the Clinician Needs to Know. Retrieved January 1, 2014, from http://www.childpsych.theclinics.com/article/S1056-4993(08)00057-6/abstract

Pinto, A., Papelbaum, M., & D'elia, F. (2002). Diabetes and eating disorders: A high risk association.

Pinheiro, A., Sullivan, P., Bacaltchuck, J., Prado-Lima, P., & Bulik, C. (n.d.). Genetics in eating disorders: Extending the boundaries of research. Revista Brasileira De Psiquiatria.


Thanks for reading my blog!

Jessica Kwong

Week 6

This week's research was a little bit more challenging as far as finding an open access journal in the English language. I found a ton of articles in Turkish and Spanish. However I found that when I switched search engines to the http:/oajse.com it was much easier to find articles in English. This week was important because I value my work and I'm quite sure other writer's do as well. Everyone wants credit for their work and I never question why plagiarism is important. When I was in my first year of college I thought plagiarism was just copying word for word, but now I see that its somebody's  words, ideas, thoughts, and writings.

Thanks for reading my Research blog!

Week 5

This week I had a much easier time researching than the first week of this class. Even before its over I feel like I am learning a lot and gaining knowledge each week. This week with empirical research it was a little harder because of the short writing and I felt I had to go through a lot of articles before finding the right one. Otherwise I feel I am doing well as far as the research part goes.

Week 4

This week the knowledge I gained was invaluable not only in this class, but in life and any other time I research any topic. Not only did I learn how to research and learn the proper key words to use, but also how to search for e books, how to download them, and how to order a book to be sent to me. The new strategies I used were Badke's research strategies to keyword search correctly as I would call it. For example the sheer symbols used when doing searching was a big help. There were no really big problems this week, however I feel as the class goes on I might run into some problems with trying to interpret and write conclusions. As week 6,7, and 8 approach I get excited because my topic is very interesting to me.

Week 2 Assignment 2 Blog Post

So far in my research I have learned a ton about the genetic factors involved in eating disorders because not only is it a personal challenge, but its seems as I read more on the topic that it is also a genetic factor as well. After reading our text by Badke he really struck a chord with me and I found myself asking the questions he posed in the text. I also found myself instead of just picking a source that looked credible I was going back and forth with the CRAAP chart and Badke text to compare and contrast. As well as picking apart the article to make sure it was  a good source for my research.
I used the CRAAP chart a lot when going through every source I found making sure that the ones I chose had 95-100 % of the qualities Badke and CRAAP wanted. Using this technique I was able to weed through the bad sources and find the diamond in rough sources.  For this topic I would like to further investigate into the genetic but also more of the environmental aspect of this topic. I am a huge believer in healthy environments mentally and physically so I would like to see how that plays a part in eating disorders.

First Blog Post Week 1 Assignment 2

Hello Readers,

My name is Jessica Kwong. I am 21 years old, born in Sacramento, CA, now residing happily on the central coast. My major is child psychology and this is my first semester at Brandman University. I hope to attain a bachelor's degree and master's degree. Then be able to apply my education as a  school psychologist and marriage/family therapist. Eventually it would be my dream to have a private practice in therapy. I chose these career goals ultimately because I enjoy working with people and children.

For the readings this week I enjoyed reading about the Digital Information fluency mode, it gave me a visual and verbal way to dissect information as well as it using it to my advantage. Being able to be efficient in reading is great tool not just in school, but in my life as well. I feel by using less electronic text and using the Digital Information Fluency Mode to my advantage I will have an enriched and successful information experience.