Thesis Topic

Changed the title of my thesis today. Since I have already nearly completed my research project, I needed to find literature that is more directly realted to the project at hand. Reorganized my outline, but can still use half of the artciles I found. The great thing is I wrote a literature review discussing most of the the information I added for another class.

Article Summary

In this article Dyrud, Worley, and Schultz describe ways to core components of blogs. They also offer a list of websites related to blog creation. Dyrud et. al list questions for blog creators to consider before creating their blog.

Dyrud, Worley, & Schultz (2005). Blogs: Getting started. Business Communication Quarterly 2005,68(67), 67-73. doi:10.1177/10856990506800109

Response to Swales Unit 4

In unit 4, Swales gives a lot of information on how to describing research. I will complete my research project in two weeks. I will have a lot of data and need to know how to incorporate the data into text. Since my research project began, I have been more worried about presenting my results than anything else. It would have been a bit better if I could have done the partner activities, but will be very useful in the near future. His explanation of Data and Conclusion Commentary will be of the most use. I have a tendency to make strong claims, when I want my research to go a certain way. Swales has provided a good guideline to help me not get carried away on phrase use. The most important this the article taught me was to think long and hard about the way phrases this in my research. I am certain I will need a lot more tips on how to write up my data, but this article provided a first step.