Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Blog #2: narrowing the the topic search but still unsure...

-well from my last post my topic hasnt changed i know for sure though i want to work on one of these topics but which one will take some time to decide.
- when i googled these topics :
1. For greek life topics i put in college greek life and vaious pillars of fraternities and sororities and the principles came up.
2. for the other topic regarding time management various websites expressing the how tough it is for collge student to magae their time and sites that gives tips to college students to manage their time efficently came up.
- when i used google scholar the results were definetely better than googe.com as it showed a lot of websites with positives and negatives of each topic and greek life is very highly related to alcohol and how good time management leads to good grades. google news is pretty useful as it shows personal stories which could be very useful to use in the paper as evidences. google books was significant too to get useful resources as there are plenty of books that you can get on each topic. youtube was not as interesting as we cannnot use it to quote in papers anyways its good for gaining knowledge but not useful in papers. personally i feel like google news would be most useful as its a really good form to back up my point with eveidences from other people's perosnal stories.
- i got a lot of ideas about greek life after all these searches and it definately narrowed my topic search as i am more lopsided towards writing on the topic of greek life in college as i got a lot of search results showing the negatives of being greek, bad reputation of greeks and positives of being greek and also how hard it is to be a greek and a student
-1)http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11966005: this site was very useful as it portrays the bad rep. of greek life and how most of the drinking goes on on the frat road in most colleges and universities. its a article abouut most parties gettign hosted by greeks on campus.
2)http://njitvector.com/2010/02/10/greek-member-spotlight-ivette-rodriguez/: on the other hand , this site is a personal story of greek and how she reveals that joining a greek organization is not just about being greek it requires a lot of time management and community service and trying to host fundraising activities and a lof of other good stuff.
- yes i found a lot of controversies over my topic through these searches especially because there is a lot of good things involeved and bad things involved in being greek . there is nothing bad in being greek but greeks are supposed to be rolemodels as they do everything there is a minimun gpa requirement , there is mandatory community service events, ther eis mandatory leaderships events on top of that u build friendships and networking . the two sides of the debate can be how to make people acknowledge the good things about the greek life and remove the bad reputation? the only interesting case i found was the link already shown above . its a case of a student who is a greek herself and she talks about how its that easy to just be greek.
-i question myself how i am going to go about this topic because there is a lot of counter arguments that can be made either way.

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