Technology and the U.S. Experience

General Advice?

2008-12-11T16:50:53Z

After cutting nuclear waste from my paper, that leaves reactor leak safety and plant security as the two main topics I'm covering. I was wondering, to those who read my paper, if there is one or the other you would like to see elaborated on. Thanks.

Final Paper

2008-12-08T03:40:16Z

For my paper I was having a very hard time finding good statistics and studies that supported my argument that outdoor lighting increases crime. Recently I found a book, Human Factors in Lighting, it has information not proving that crime increases but proving that crime does not increase with more light. Then I want to say that lighting doesn't help reduce crime at certain levels but now we use so much light that it is increasing crime rates. Now I just need to find proof of this claim. I think will be able to take these new facts and make a stronger argument.

Paper

2008-11-20T17:50:47Z

I am not sure if I should cut out some sections in my paper.

Paper Citations

2008-11-20T17:47:25Z

I am not sure how I should cite a particular source in my paper.

Info on Nuclear Waste (Doug)

2008-11-19T19:06:21Z

Doug,

What are the sources that are relevant to nuclear waste that you found?

-Taylor

Differences between Cerbie and Myself

2008-11-18T00:36:36Z

After reading James Cerbie's draft of his research paper, it has become apparent that his is nearly my antithesis. His paper swoons over the benefits of Blogs, even going so far as to say that Blogs are a good source of Investigative Journalism. I'm sorry, but where did this come from? When was the last time any of us saw a blog that UNCOVERED a huge news story? ]]>

narrowing of topic

2008-11-16T22:22:59Z

I've moved my topic to narrow it a little bit more. I'm going to focus on the peer to peer file sharing companies versus the music industry and how the music industry wants to shut down those sites. I will try to argue that the object of the peer to peer sites is a good one and that illegal music sharing that occurs is not actually as harmful to the companies as they would have us believe.

warning signs

2008-11-11T21:57:40Z

I've decided to discuss the ineffectiveness of warning signs. I've found several good journal articles but i would like to find some good statistical data on car crashes related to distractions (talking/ texting on cell phones, etc.). Where are some good places to look for this information

Looking for Improvements

2008-11-11T21:46:24Z

Finished my rough draft, but I'm still hoping to perhaps find some more useful data on general radiation exposure from living near a plant. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone has.

Paper Citations

2008-11-11T03:22:08Z

I am not quite sure how to do the in text citations for an entire web site. Two of my main sources are websites. I have used a bunch of different articles from the websites in order to write my paper. My question is how do you site the entire website in the paper if you don't have a page number to put down. Do you just credit the information you are writing down to the website and not put a page number?

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Interview

2008-11-11T02:01:01Z

Does anybody out there know a good teacher here to interview concerning blogs and politics. I know I want to look in the political science department, but I was just wondering who out there may know the most on the subject?

Companies Not Doing Enough

2008-11-10T03:41:25Z

I've narrowed my research paper to what oil companies say they're doing Vs. what they actually do, and how much they spend doing it.

I'm not sure if it's too narrow to write an entire paper only about Exxon but like I said, every source at least mentions them somewhere. I guess I'll continue my research and have to determine if I have enough on just Exxon as I start writing.

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2008-11-10T03:41:25Z

Rough Draft

2008-11-08T21:07:36Z

In the process of writing my paper, I found many connections between nuclear power as a sustainable energy source and the positive effect it has on the environment. This is an interesting angle on the topic which contradicts the popular belief that the carbon byproducts of nuclear power are damaging to the enviroment. My only concern is overloading my paper with statistics and figures on this matter - I do not want to lose the reader's interest...

Texting

2008-11-06T20:19:19Z

I'm trying to focus my topic from internet and cell phones and how they affect communication/relationships to looking at specifically texting. But I'm having some trouble finding enough information in terms of sources, I've been looking and getting information from a lot of popular articles but not as many textbooks. Any ideas where I could look in the library for information about this?