Research .

Today our speaker was Dana Williams, who is a woman we've seen various times, if not every week that we have had Freshman Seminar and many of those times we have asked her position and why we keep seeing her and today we found out.

In Professor Williams presentation one of the things that stuck to me out of everything was the listed goal of Freshman Orientation which is to encourage all students to embark on a lifetime of independent discovery and to teach us that regardless of our concentration (major/crafts) we can utilize our individual talents to help resolve a problem that we identify as important to ourselves and the community that surrounds us. Overall, I do believe that this goal was met and will continue to improvise itself in all of our daily lives. 

Williams also began to present and go in depth on the group research project that we will soon have to finish as she provided us with the 6 principle components of research and examples to help further our understanding: statement of the problem or challenge, review of the information and discoveries already present, methodology, framework (how information will be displayed/distributed), articulation of thesis and the conclusion. These components are very familiar as they can easily be correlated to the scientific method, but can be seemingly applicable to all situations and problems as these steps sound less scientific and technical. As Professor Williams also went through her powerpoint presentation and lecture I was also able to understand how on a daily instance we apply these principles to everyday life and processes.

Daisa Gainey
Sociology '14