Blog Post #9

http://www.buzzfeed.com/larap2/19-signs-youre-from-indiana-aati

Title: 19 Signs You're From Indiana

Since I am from the wonderful state of Indiana, I figured this Buzzfeed article would be fitting. I looked at the author’s profile and realized she must be from Indiana or went to school in Indiana because she also has an article about reasons why someone would be from Purdue. She starts the “19 Signs You’re From Indiana” but saying that you can’t help yelling HOO-HOO-HOOSIERS when you hear the word ‘Hoosier.’ Coming from a UK based family, I never once have yelled that and would probably be disowned if I did. Another point on this is where she states that everyone hates Kentucky. Well that’s false. I love Kentucky. Most of my friends that stayed at schools in Indiana do indeed seem to hate our school, but I do not. From this view, we can see that this author was raised in an Indiana based household. Her point about the Super Bowl and that no one can forget how crowded and crazy downtown Indianapolis was, is a point that only someone from Indiana would know how to describe. Living 45 minutes away from Indianapolis, I knew just how wild that atmosphere was. Multiple friends and family members went and experienced the madness and came back and told us all about it. Her 13^th point is “You are used to people from out of town asking you this question: ‘What is there to do in Indiana?’” Not only is this completely true to all Indiana civilians, but also there have even been commercials and slogans to represent the truth in this. Indiana Beach, a small amusement park on Lake Shafer in north central Indiana, has a slogan that states: “There’s more than corn in Indiana.” Meaning, there is actually something to do other than drive on interstates and look at cornfields. Her last point is that all residents of Indiana, no matter how they feel about it, will always call it home. She emphasizes that most people have a “love/hate” relationship with the state and that is very true in most cases. Just like she said, I will always call Indiana my home and that is where my true home resides no matter how ready I was to get the heck out of there while I was growing up.

Blog Post #8

In my final paper, I will obviously need to make a lot of revisions considering the fact that I only have half of a paper. I will need to specifically focus on three aspects:

1: My organization of the descriptions of The Study compared to CATS and CARES programs need to be placed differently throughout the paper. As we talked about in our meeting, my paper’s focus is on The Study and that should be described first before going into other details about spaces. My descriptions seem like they can stay the way they are but the paragraphs just need to be moved around a little bit.

2: I need to add multiple more paragraphs where they are needed. I have lots of holes that need to be filled in with extra information and statistics to back up my claim. Included in this, I still need to add my interview information and some more field notes. After I do this, my paper will make a ton more sense and I will also have a COMPLETE paper instead of the 4 pages, not even remotely done, paper that I currently have.

3: My last revision needs to be going through and looking over where things do not quite make sense or can be elaborated on. At the end of one of my paragraphs, I make a claim about the way there could be other life skills received from attending peer tutoring and help session on college campuses. I talk about how there is obvious academic success but I need to make sure I elaborate on the underlying and subconscious factors that can be gained. I know the way that I want to make these points clear, but I need to make sure that these points are made clear to the reader.

Blog Post #7

The secondary source I found is a scholarly article by Keith Topping at the University of Dundee. In this article, it gives information about how peer tutoring affects students within a college or university environment. This study was published in 1998 but still holds truth to how the peer-tutoring environment works today. It gives a definition of what Topping calls “peer assessment” which is inevitably the same as peer tutoring. Not only does this give description on how it helps and benefits grades, but also gives evidence of how these peer tutoring or peer assessment opportunities give students and their peers social and communication skills that can be used for the rest of their lives outside of the classroom.

Topping, Keith. “Peer Assessment between Students in Colleges and Universities.” Review of Educational Research: 28.3. (1998). 249-276. Web. 4 November 2013.