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iWhat strategies have you and your group used to ensure that all members are actively contributing to group assignments? Explain how you communicate, divide responsibilities, and hold each other accountable throughout the process.

 Response: Our group has been able to ensure everyone is contributing equally by splitting up the work into separate parts for each group member to cover. We will work together to discuss universal things we need to agree on while listening to each other's ideas. Once that is figured out we will divide all of the work into equal parts and designate each person to each section then getting together after we are done to share what we got. Summary: Worked on resource gathering. Reflection: I struggled in the beginning to really grasp the resources but luckily I was able to get into a groove later into class.
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How has completing the annotated bibliography changed or clarified your understanding of your research topic? Discuss how your sources connect to one another and how they are shaping your argument moving forward.

 Response: I think doing further research and reading more about the sources has really helped me get a grasp of the project more in full. As I have read more about it I have really learned the many intricacies of cancel culture and knowing all the different perspectives has really opened my eyes on the topic. This will help me a lot when writing the paper and even helps me form my own opinion on it. Doing the annotated bibliography has also really helped me break down the project into more manageable sections. Now that I am almost done with such a big part of the project, writing the essay seems a lot less daunting. Summary: We continued working out annotated bibliography Reflection: I had been kind of worried about the annotated bibliographies but honestly its not that bad.
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Which part of the annotated bibliography (summary, reflection, or evaluation) was the most challenging for you, and why? Explain how that challenge helped you grow as a researcher and how it will help you when writing your research paper.

 Response: I actually didn't really have that many challenges when writing my annotations for the bibliography. What I struggled with the most though was probably writing the summary. It wasn't super difficult per se but it takes a long time to read through the whole text and figure out what is relevant. It was definitely the most time consuming task out of the three of them and its really slowing down my progress significantly. I will definitely have to work on this over the weekend due to the time it takes to do the summary alone. Summary: We worked on our annotated bibliography Reflection: Making the annotated bibliography wasn't actually as bad as I had worried.
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As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue.

 Response: During my search for sources I thought it was interesting that most of the sources I found were actually quite similar. Most of the news and magazine sources are more right leaning and against cancel culture. Many of them said very similar things and I only found a few actually in defense of some sorts of cancel culture. Also a lot of the documents would make reference to the first amendment but would often not actually elaborate on cancel culture's relation to it. You can also see how politically polarizing the topic is, most of the authors are against cancel culture and call it a liberal/leftist means to oppress the right and that people in support of some forms of cancel culture don't condone all of it and tend to be more center left liberals rather leftists. Summary: We searched for sources again. Reflection: My topic is pretty frustrating to look for to be honest.
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Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found.

 Response: I have done many different things when doing research for a project. I have used Galileo and Ebsco a few times before but otherwise I usually default to wikipedia or college websites. This transformative experience using Galileo has made research much more easy. I have found a wide variety of different articles and perspectives within just a quick search while also being able to validate the site quickly. Summary: We did some research for sources. Reflection: I found a few sources about cancel culture.
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Political cartoons often use exaggeration and symbolism to make a point, and they can also serve as important visual sources for analysis. What is being criticized in this image? What does this source suggest about the issue, and what does the cartoonist want the audience to question or reconsider?

Response: This drawing criticizes Trump's strategy to distract people from the issues within the US by focusing on something else. He focuses on attacking Iran rather than addressing the harm that ICE, the big beautiful bill and all the other stuff he is doing. The artist is trying to address the harm that ICE and the big beautiful bill are doing  on this country. They also want the audience to question what Trump is doing and for them to not look away from the said issues at hand. Summary: I was absent today. Reflection:  Absent.
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Think about how you have searched for information in the past compared to what you practiced today. How is creating specific search phrases different from just “Googling” a topic? Explain how this strategy will improve the quality of your research

 Response: Usually when I am looking something up I will just look up one or two keywords on Google and scroll until I see either Wikipedia, a reputable news site, a .gov or .org site then just use about one or two of those sites to build a conclusion. Using specific search phrases can help specify what you are looking for. just googling a topic can culture very vague answers and unreliable sources that have little reputable relevance to what we are looking for in our research project. Using what we learned today about search methods I am sure I will be able to find good and reliable sources that will act as the concrete foundation for the rest of our research project. Summary: We had our second day of the research project. Reflection: I have never really thought much about the way that I search and how to use certain phrases to get certain articles.
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