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Blog Post #5: Final Post

  Blog #5 Questions/Answers:  Q. What have you learned about the processes of designing a sound research study in class? A. The first process I learned about designing a sound research study was the concept that it takes time. The advice from Dr. Bacabac "to spread the work out" proved to be sound as this project was time-intensive, and requires thoughtful input (in chucks and nuggets); it requires recursive revision as well.  Aside from time, I learned the value of analyzing text within a rhetorical framework. This was my first exposure and experience completing an assignment via analyzing text, let alone writing a research study using a contextual analysis.   Q. What have these processes taught you about your future roles as a technical/professional communicator and digital rhetorician? A. Again, the process has taught me to spread the work out. The size of this project cannot be completed in just a few days. Acquire good sources, review them well, and documen...
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Blog Post #4: Plans For Revision

 My plans for revision are already underway, yet I still have more work ahead of me. First, I am grateful for the thoughtful critiques and responses from my peers and professors. I plan to address my literature review expounding on my summary and making some needed revision there. Next, I will analyze and revise my proposal I turned in last week. After a clarifying conference call with Dr. Bacabac, I will be adjusting to my "Research Method and Design" section. I will be scratching my formerly planned mixed methods design and narrowing my research to qualitative. I am grateful for this because historically it is what I have practiced. Additionally, I need to make some adjustments to my "Data Analysis" section. I have reached out to a few key individuals for their thoughts/expertise in this regard and will be applying a framework/critical rhetorical analysis to this section. Then I will put my revisions all together. I will write it out all in one writing session, me...
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Blog Post 3#: Research Gap

So, in an effort to update my readers, I moved forward in my comparative analysis with the following two websites (a change from my initial thoughts/posting):  1. The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/projects/religious-freedom-research-project  2. The International Center for Law and Religious Studies:  https://www.iclrs.org/ I changed my second website source for a few reasons, with the primary reason being the original websites were both represented by the same individual, and I wanted diversity of thought and experience. The second reason for change was because of their comparative likeness: They both are academic research centers (universities), global leaders in international religious freedom or belief (RFOB), and are grounded in law and policy reform. With that said, using both websites as a common peacemaking ground, the academic literature then took on the comparative text component to fulfill the literat...
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Blog Post #2: Research Topic/Issue, 10 Sources

For my research topic, I will do a comparative (text) analysis of religious freedom through the lens of human rights, fundamental freedoms, and government policy. Do individuals enjoy the same protected religious freedoms online as they do offline? Are there specific social media platforms targeted with hate speech? Are certain religious minorities targeted for their belief systems? Does the advancement of technologies advance or repress the sharing of religious beliefs? How is our U.S. government preserving or frustrating the expressions of religious freedom? My comparative analysis will investigate and evaluate the following two website resources:   1. https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/ 2. https://religiousfreedominstitute.org/ 10 Tentative Sources: Free Speech Still Matters: Joel M. Gora. https://login.libproxy.utahtech.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=155166397&site=ehost-live Social Media, State Control, ...
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Topic of Interest: ENGL-6401 By Rachel Baldwin To begin, I have been interested in the topic of religious freedom and/or Christian persecution since before this class started. I was really hoping to springboard this topic into a thesis paper. As I began the assigned reading for Chapter One, I began to think about where this topic might fit it. I resolved that it might be appropriate for Postmodern Research using a Critical Theory Methodology. However, after reading the first two articles, I'm a little more confused and feel like I need additional guidance. In the second article, I was encouraged by digital composition and the fact that digital humanities (social sciences) and English scholars are used for diversification and reflection for writing scholars. If I need to move more into a technical communication realm, I will, but I think I need help. :) 
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