In Class Post #7

The two databases I examined today were ERIC (at EBSCOhost) and ABI/INFORM COMPLETE (at Proquest). My groups topic is bilingual, and my individual topic if marketing. Therefore, the two words I chose to search for were bilingualism and marketing. Although most information was of the same sort, I did find some different varieteies of information throughout my search. For the most part, the abstracts of articles I read from ERIC included articles about British students giving a presentation to French people, the relationships between bilingual and marketing from women in two different countries, and the relationship between bilingualism and international trade. This database did not give me any subject filter options. However, when looking at the database ABI/INFORM COMPLETE, there were many subject filters given: bilingualism, studies, hispanic americans, target market, marketing, advertising, consumer behavior, and many more. The inforamation from the article abstracts of this database included codeswitching, effects of using a second language in the brain process, and how when translating a marketing message, it might not have the same meaning. Each databaseincluded information on the relationship between bilingualism and marketing, but had different approaches to the topic. I felt that these databases gave more direct information to my search topic, and was more helpful. It narrowed down the results to a lot less than the other day.  Using each database would differ for the assignment or topic. However, I would definitely use the two databases my group looked at today for my research because they had very helpful information related to my research topic.

Filter Bubbles

I believe that filter bubbles can be good, but can also not help you too much at the same time. The filters only give you results based on the information the filters think is what you're looking for, when in reality may not be exactly what you were wanting to search for. if you were searching for non-academic information, then the filters would definitely be helpful. However, when it does come to academic researching, research usually requires looking through mostly all and any information to make sure you get the best research of all the information needed for your topic. if filter bubbles are present, it will only show sites such as most recently viewed and visited or only the supporting sites of your information. This limits a person to finding the most accurate and best information for their research. By popping the filter bubbles, this might greatly help a persons research. I can definitely see how each of the ways explained to pop the filters(burning cookies, deleting history, making information more private, ect.), can benefit the reseacher greatly. I believe it would be a good idea to try these in the future to help with my researching and not limit me to certain sites.

In Class Blog Post #6

There are many different types of information sources. Four main sources we discussed in class are magazines, books, newpapers, and government documents. In a magazine, you would most likely find information on events from that month the magaizine was published. Magaizines are mostly a popluar source because people usually readthem for their pleasure. In a book however, you could find information from a wide range of dates. The book may have been published 10 months, to 10 years ago. Books always take a lot longer to publish than a magazine. These are more of a scholarly source because they usually have more facts, source looked at, and have been reviewed by multiple people and publishers. Government documents are very reliable, therefore considered a scholarly source. Most information written in a government document is all facts on different matters whithin the country. Lastly, newspapers are more of a popular source. Theyare published daily on different matters in a certain area or topic. Although the articles are reviewed by the publisher of the magazine, they do not have the time to be examied by multiple people and scholarly experts. they are more so just for the entertainment and information of the citizens within that community.

Research Question

My group's topic is people that are bilingual. We can all relate this topic to each of our majors, which range from education, pre-nursing, and business. My research question is, What are the main advantages of being bilingual in the marketing career? Each person in my group is examining the main advantages of being bilingual in their desired career field, so my research question relates very well. I developed my research question because since marketing is my major, I wanted to look further into the aspects that could help me get a job in the future. Bilingual applies to this inquiry because I might find it extremely helpful to minor in a second language to benefit my job search after college. I did not find too much new information while pre-researching, but I did find a good amount of information that would greatly help me with my topic. Therefore, there is no need to revise my research question becasue it is strong and there is plenty information on my topic. The two points I will be discussing in my paper are the benefits of a person being bilingual in the marketing world opposed to someone who was not bilingual.

In-class Post #5

There are numerous ways in which all the skills I have learned and aquired in this class can be applied to other classes I have. A few skills we have learned include citing a source, determining if that source is good or bad, and learning how to not plagarize. The main class that pops out in my head in which I could use these types of  skills would be my English class. We are constantely reading books, and having to write papers about them. In addition to the books, my professor always requires a secondary source. When choosing the best secondary source to use in my paper to determine if it is a good or bad secondary source, there are different aspects of the cite I would look at. I can look at the date of article publication, search the background of the author, check if citations are made, and if the article seems based on facts or opinion. After determining the source I would use, I would apply it to my paper. If I am usuing it in my paper, I need to make sure I am not plagiarizing. By learning how to not in this class, I can make sure I am giving credit to all information used from that article. Last, each source used for the paper needs to be cited, and by learning exactly how to do that in this class, I can give proper credit and citations to each source used in my paper.

Book Citation

Grosjean, François. Bilingual: Life and Reality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Print.

This book is about exactly what the title describes; bilingual and reality. It explains real life situations of being bilingual and using it, to many different aspects of bilingual life including a break down of each aspect. I believe the book to be an accurate and credible source due to two main reasons. A) The author, Francois Grosjean, has studied psycholinguistics and founded the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at a university of which he was a professor at, and B) The book was copyrighted by the president of Harvard School, which is one of the top schools in the nation. Although my topic is being bilingual in the marketing career, this book is still pretty helpful. This  book is helpful to my research topic because it helps me to better understand bilingual people and how they use it in their everyday life. The different situations it is applied to gives me more of an idea of how useful and helpful it is for someone to be bilingual in just their life, let alone to assist in there career!

In-Class Blog Post #4

I honestly have never used a pulic library to do any research for papers in high school, and it was very rare if I went to my actually school library to use a book from there. I was more of an online source type of person. I can only remember one time when I checked out a book from the school library, and finding that book was alot more difficlut than finding one at the Ingram Library located here at West GA. The main source of help were the librarians at the check-out desk. However, even if you needed assistance from them, there were only two available that were most of the time busy with someone else and had a long line. There was not a library catalog that I could use to pin-point the actual location of a book. Also, the fact that there was no catalog meant that if you had a certain topic to research, you would just have to look through books to see if they could help you out. If there was a certain book you needed that was recommended by a teacher, to find out if the book was checked out, I would have to either search until I found it was not there, or ask the librarian. I have definitely enjoyed using the Ingram Library because it is a whole lot more convinient and easier to use and manuver through than any libraries I encountered throughout my gradeschool years. 

2 Research Books

First of all, my topic is being bilingual in the marketing career. When searching through the library's catalog for books on my topic, there were two books that stuck out from the lists above the rest. One book was called "Undergraduates in a Second Language" written by Ilona Leki and the other book was called "Bilingual Life and Reality" written by Francois Grosjean. At a first look of each book in the library catalog, it seemed as if each could help me research more into my topic in some way. However, after reading some of each of the two books and further understanding more of what each book was about, there was only one that I found could help me. The first book, "Undergraduates in a Second Language" was more about people who spoke one language, and had English as their less fluent language (i.e. immigrants and international students). Also, it only referred to these students in their English writing courses, which is not what I was looking for at all. The second book called "Bilingual Life and Reality" had a more on target topic of what I was looking for. The book basically put bilingual people into real life situations, and explained the different circumstances in which it was a great convinience to speak a second or third language. Although the author of the book did not actually apply bilingualism to the marketing world directly, putting great examples of when, where, and how being bilingual could benefit a person in a situation helped me to realize that it would be a smart idea to maybe minor in a second language. It seemed as if being bilingual helped out a lot, and would most likely greatly benefit a person going into the marketing career. Even though the second book was not directly related to my topic, it could still be helpful in my researching by using the examples and circumstances given!