Carter Stokes

Week 12: Academic research             This week in class we focused entirely on academic research. The topic is extremely important because we will be spending much of our time here at Georgia southern writing and conducting research for a verity of classes. On Monday we mostly went over how to use Galileo and different filters we could put on our searches to make the articles that came up relevant to our research. I thought that the time filter was particularly useful considering that the topics I usually choose to research are typically about current issues. When actually using Galileo I found it to be really very simple and straight forward. Also we where give the small research activity to do and reminded that we do not have to do a research paper for this FYE class, which I am thankful for.             For my mini research activity I chose the question, " How could the education system better prepare students for a job market that is ever changing and shrinking due to a

Week 11: Registration and Powerful Questions                  This week in class we discussed how to register for classes and what to keep in mind, and what powerful questions are and how to ask better questions. On Monday, Erin Martin came to our class to discuss how to register for our classes. This took away a lot of my stress I had about the registration process. On Monday night I spent a lot of time on the course search trying to develop my schedule for next semester, and about an hour or two later I came up with one. I plan on waking up early tomorrow morning to get all the classes I want. I am very glad we went over this in class; It helped me tremendously.                     On Wednesday We came into class prepared to talk about an article called "The Art of Powerful Questions" ( Link Here ). It was quite long, but also Interesting. It brought up many examples of how great and insightful questions sparked many success stories. It taught us how to construct pow