Engl: 112 Final Post

The internet tools that I learned with this class were ones I have never used before. the AND or OR was completly new to me. The blog helped me also stay organized with posting my propoasl and outline for my literacy paper, even though my paper didn't follow it at all. The del.icio.us bookmarks, saved me, I am horrible at writing things down, and this account let me bookmark the page and also leave notes to myself for each link. The class wiki was nice, because you could look at what other people had wrote and what they thought about certain internet tools. Overall, I learned to use internet tools that I will continue to use, even with doing a simple search!

Engl: 112 Literary Outline

This is a rough outline of what I have been planning for my paper:

About Judy Blume
Why she decided to write
What influenced her to write her books
Different age groups of books
Books
Picture Books
Elementary Grade
Middle Grades
Young Adult
Adult
Teaching
How Judy Blume's books can/are used in classrooms
Lesson Plans
Teachers' opinions

This is how I plan to write my paper, but once I begin writing it, chances are it will change.

Engl: 112 Literary Research

Resource: Msn.com
Keywords: judy blume commentary or critiques
Date: 5/6/08
Hits: 6.620
Relevance: 0 out of 5

Resource: Msn.com
Keywords: Judy Blume Commentaries
Date: 5/6/08
Hits: 48,400
Relevance: 2 out of 5

Resource: Msn.com
Keywords: Judy Blume Critiques
Date: 5/6/08
Hits: 21,900
Relevance: 1 out of 5

Engl: 112 Update on Literacy Research

For my paper I am mostly planning on using the Judy Blume website for a lot of my background information about her and her books. I am still looking for my interviews from Judy Blume as well as more classroom information and people that use her books. But it is going good so far!

Engl: 112 Research for Literacy Paper

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Judy Blume Interviews
Date: 4/25/08
Hits: 22,500
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Why Judy Blume Became a Writter
Date: 4/25/08
Hits: 6,780
Relevance: 3 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Who Inspired Judy Blume to Write Books
Date: 4/25/08
Hits: 4,590
Relevance: 2 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: What is Judy Blume's Favorite Book?
Date: 4/25/08
Hits: 41,500
Relevance: 2 out of 5

Engl: 112 Literacy Proposal

Most authors write books pertaining to a certain age group, Judy Blume has written many books, for a variety of ages, picture books, chapter books, and adult books. What were her reasons for writing books for numerous age groups? Some of Judy Blume’s characters were based about her family members. Her books she felt she could relate to when she was the age that the book targets. As well as tragic events that occurred in her life that helped influence her to write her books. I am familiar with Judy Blume’s books because I read them growing up, usually more than once. By using the Judy Blume website, I am able to learn more about Judy Blume, her books, and her reasons of writing her books. I also am going to use a teacher website that has a biography, criticism, and lesson plans, about Judy Blume’s books. This is to help show how many people have been touched by Judy Blume, and their various ages. For this paper I anticipate researching it for another week, then writing a rough draft.

Engl: 112 Literary Research

Resources: Msn.com
Keywords: Judy Blume
Date: 4/20/08
Hits: 3,000,000
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Resources: Msn.com
Keyworkds: Biography Judy Blume
Date: 4/20/08
Hits: 101,000
Relevance: 31/2 out of 5

Resources: Msn.com
Keywords: Author Judy Blume
Date: 4/20/08
Hits: 1,410,000
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Engl. 112 Proposal

For my literary paper I will be writing about Judy Blume. I will be focusing on why Judy Blume choose to write her books for such a wide variety of age groups steming from picture books to adult books and everything in between. This far in my research I am only familar with the books that she has written, due to reading them in the past. I plan to collect information by researching Judy Blume's website and her reasions as to why she wrote her books and what influenced her. As well as trying to find teachers that possibly use her books in their classroom and why. I choose this topic of writing about Judy Blume because I grew up reading all of her books usually more then once, and I feel it would be interesting to find out more about her and why she choose to write books not focusing on just one age group but many.

Engl. 112 Progress on Literacy Paper

As of right now I have not made too much progress on my paper, as I have been sick now for 2 1/2 weeks and have been falling behind everything with school and trying to study for tests and finish my research paper. Needless to say I have been good all semester about not being over-whelmed, but I am now. I have been thinking about my literacy paper, trying to figure out if I can do anything with the author Judy Blume, I know that she has written books that I read in grade school, and then books that I read in middle school. She was my favorite, but I'm still trying to figure out if I can incorporate that into a paper. I thought about seeing if her books were aimed for the age categories that they fall, and if some were made to help the realization of a girls changing body. At this point I'm not for sure if I can. I plan on printing off the requirements and letting a friend of mine who sub. teaches look at it and see if she had any ideas. :)

Engl. 112 Field Research

For my field research I interviewed someone who is in criminal justice and her job is with kids that are in a detention center. I didn't really learn more then what I had mostly all ready concluded on my own. Ways that children are raised does play a role in the way that they lead their lives. According to my interviewier she felt that there is a direct role in the child develpment and teenage crime. I asked if bonding was important in child development, and she did agree that it was. I asked if child development could lead to psycholgical problems in their future in her opinion, she also agreed that abuse and neglect could lead to possible disorders. My interview was on a short time frame, so I wasn't able to ask all of my questions but, I was happy to have supporting answers to my paper.

Engl. 112 Research

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Arthur Shawcross
Date: 4/1/08
Hits: 9,540
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Resourse: Ask.com
Keywords: Peter Woodcock
Date: 4/1/08
Hits: 114,000
Relevance: 0 out of 5

Resourse: Msn.com
Keywords: Peter Woodcock
Date: 4/1/08
Hits: 463,000
Relevance: 0 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Henry Lee Lucas
Date: 4/1/08
Hits: 551,000
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords:Ottis Toole Childhood
Date:4/1/08
Hits: 202
Relevance: 3 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: John Wayne Gacy
Date: 4/1/08
Hits: 82,300
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Engl: 112 Field Research

I have completed my interview, only with someone different because I could never make contact with the other person, but its still not too late. My interview now, is directed towards someone who works with children that have criminal pasts. My questions mostly were regarding the way that they children were raised and if she felt there was a link between their raising and their crimes.

Engl. 112 Research

Resource: Msn.com
Keywords: Antisocial Disorder
Date: 3/25/08
Hits: 693,000
Relevance: 4 out of 5

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Serial Killers motives
Date: 3/23/08
Hits: 69,000
Relevance: 3 out of 5

Resource: Crime Library
Keywords: Criminal Mind, Serial Killers
Date: 3/23/08
Hits: Just from the site
Relevance: 5 out of 5
Exactly what I need!!

Resource: Ask.com
Keywords: Schizophrenic Serial Killers
Date: 3/25/08
Hits: 8,000
Relevance: 5 out of 5

Engl. 112 Field Research

Right now I am in the process of finishing my interview. I have my interview questions that I have been asking, only have been playing e-mail tag. The info that I have gotten so far regarding my topic is good, it more on an emotinal feeling of how this person felt, and the emotions that they went through when dealing with a serial killer, and being in the pathway of them. I hope to have the interview completed this week. :)

Engl. 112 Research tools

After randomly typing in the same keywords only at different sites, my now favorite is ask.com, because my search brought up more relivant information. I used to always only searh at Msn.com. Another site that I found that I liked from our internet research project was the internet public library which is a web directories. Even though my search only brought up 7 sites, they were all filled with great info. Therefore I will be searching more web directories from now on for my paper.

Engl. 112 Research

Ask.com
Keyword: Why serial killers kill
Date: 3/18/08
Hits: 302,500
Relevance: 7 out of 10
First 2 pages very informative.

Google.com
Keyword: Why serial killers kill
Date: 3/16/08
Hits: 1,520,000
Relevance: 6 out of 10
First few website are helpful, after that they are scarce.

Msn.com
Keyword: Why serial killers kill
Date: 3/16/08
Hits: 919,000
Relevance: 6 out of 10
Once again first few websites are good information, then drifted off.

Internet Public Library IPL.org
Keyword: Why serial killers kill
Date: 3/1/08
Hits: 7
Relevance 8 out of 10

Engl. 112 Dr. Michael Stone

I have been watching a recording a show on the I.D. Discovery channel since this class started called "Most Evil" featuring Dr. Michael Stone who classifies serial killers and their crimes comitted into a number catagory between 1 and 22. Each show Dr. Stone goes over a theme or subject such as cult leaders, or female serial killers. I figured I would go out on a limb while I had a little time this past week and search Dr. Michael Stone himself. I came up with 23,800,000 results, most not regarding the person I wanted. I then searched Dr. Michael Stone AND Evil. This resulted in 2,600,000 results. None really mattering again, but it did bring up the website of the show "Most Evil" which I viewed and can use as a referance regarding if needed for motives. I then randomly clicked on a discussion about how to contact Dr. Stone, which lead me to find a website about the depravity rating which is what Dr. Stone uses in his show to classify each person. The Depravity rating would be used in courts to help determine punishment for serial killers. All in all I feel the relevance of this search is a 4 out of 5.

Engl. 112 Schizophrenia Research

Today I searched schizophrenia on google.com. My keyword was just schizophrenia. This search had over 10 million hits, therefore I'm definitly going to have to narrow my search down with this topic. The relevance of this search was probably a 2.5, not good, not bad. I hope to use schizohrenia in my paper by detailing people who have had this illness and killed because of what they thought was reality.

Engl: 112 Periodical Articles

From the Find Articles link I searched, Why serial killers kill? I found an article that refered me to a book called The Murder Next Door: Why The Mind Is Designed To Kill, by David M. Buss, Penguin Press HC, 2005.

I found this article from Science News,
Titled: The Murder Next Door: Why The Mind Is Designed To Kill
Date: June, 11, 2005

As for other articles I haven't had much luck, I'm not for sure if I'm searching them wrong through the EBSCO host, but I'm not getting anything really relivant to my topic.

Engl. 112 Searching

Today I searched Serial Killers just at the library, at Mesa I found 8 references of books. On prospector I found 241 books matching serial killers. When I limited my search to serial killers psychologically my search was reduced to 21 books.

Searching online, up until now, I wasn't keeping track of how many "hits' I was getting while searching. So far I have used these for search results:

Serial Killers
Serial Killer
Why People Kill
Serial Killers + psychologically
Mass Murders
Spree Murder
Felony Murder
Torture Murder
Proxy Murder
Serial+Killer
Multiple+Kills
Spree+Killer
Mind+Killer
"Mind Serial Killer"
"Inside Serial Killer"

Engl. 112: Books

Just from looking at the prospector online I found a lot of books that I plan on checking out.

AUTHOR Giannangelo, Stephen J.
TITLE The psychopathology of serial murder : a theory of violence

AUTHOR Richard N. Kocsis
TITLE Serial murder and the psychology of violent crimes

AUTHOR Berry-Dee, Christopher
TITLE Serial killers, up close and personal : inside the world of torturers, psychopaths, and murderers

These are just a few to start, I don't have any more info on the books themselves because I researched the books off of prospector and chose to have them e-mailed to me, and the list wasn't as detailed as I had hoped.

Engl. 112 Response From Suggestions

Responses that I recieved from others varied from how I shouldn't want to write about serial killers to what kind of serial killers I plan to write about. Famous or not, male or female. As I decided before I plan to write not about a certian serial killer, but numerous ones, not specifically famous or not famous, male or female. I will write about the ones that most fit my report and have been most likely previously been studied to help determine their motivation of their killings.

Engl. 112 Keywords

Serial Killer
Murder
Kills
Cooling
Blasted
Victims
Manslaughter
Accomplice
Homicide
Aggravated
Aggravation

Actions
Assault
Avenge
Battery
Bilk
Blackmail
Burglary
Cheat
Conspiracy
Conspire
Defraud
Duress
Extortion
Kidnapping
Murder
Perpetrator
Rescue
Robbery
Spoil
Suicide
Thief
Trespass
Vengeance
Victim
Willful
Hate Crimes
Abduction
Aggravating
Circumstancees

Rape
Acquaintance Rape
Date Rape
Forcible Rape

Titles
Violent Crime
Corporal Punishment
Accessory
Actus Reus
Attempt
Corpus Delicti
Felony Murder
Incapacitation
White-Collar
Crime
Deterrence
Malice Aforethought
Aggravated Assault
Accessory Before The Fact
Hate Crime


With this search I learned different words that I can use when searching about serial killers, or on a more specific area regarding serial killers. By defining serial killer it resulted in many different words that can be searched. As well as wording for crimes that the serial killer have committed. By learning the different synonymous I can now narrow my search results.

Engl 112 Research Question

1. Could there be a connection between all serial killers?
Why do people become serial killers?
Where in a serial killers life do they decide to kill?
How do psycholgical disorders lead people to become serial killers?
Could how a person is raised lead to a person becoming a serial killer?
How do serial killers usually kill their victims?
What makes people kill?
What is the definition of a serial killer?
Who is most commonly their prey?
Who is most likely to become a serial killer, male or female?

2. Is their a connection between serial killers, or a reason of why they kill?

3. Do serial killers kill because of a psychological problem they have, or because of the way they were raised with lack of morals and boundries. Is their a connection between serial killers?

4. Please see posted disscussion

5. See del.icios.us tagged bookmark

Engl. 112 Exploration

When researching serial killers in general, I came across a website, regarding a possible connection between a serial killer and if they had been adopted. With this information it can help be answer my main point of why serial killers kill. Could it be the connection of how they grew up being adopted and not knowing their biological parents? This was one possible thought that I had not thought of for my research paper.

http://crimemagazine.com/07/adoptionforensics,0919-7.htm

English 112 Identify Subject

The topic that I will be writting about for my research paper is regarding serial killers and if their is a reason that makes them kill. I choose this topic because it has always held my interest becacuse of the psycholgical aspect of the reason of "why." Is it a mental thing that causes them to kill or is it something when they were little that raised them to kill? I feel that writting about this subject will hold my interest as well answer my questions.

Information that I all ready know about serial killers is limited. I have watched a few shows about serial killers and their theory of what makes a serial killer tick. I have also read a few books, not about serial killers in general but about a certian killer, or cult leader. I have also written a report about serial killers, just in general, not partaining to anything in particular.

What I want to learn from this subject is the reason of normal people turning into killers, and not just killing once, but numerous times. Is their a relation between an obession they have to take someones life, or the rush that they feel, that causes them to kill over and over again. Also, do some killers kill purposly and leave hints or clues behind to lead the investagtors on. An example of this is the Zodiac killer, who always left a clue, such as killing, then calling the police to lead them there. As well as sending messages to the newspapers.

English 112 Brainstorming Topics

Topics that I would be interested in researching this semester would be;

Abuse in families and how the chidren are affected by it and grow up to raise their children
Elderly abuse in nursing homes
Mistakes health care providers make that kill patients, but are unknown to the families
Why do serial killers kill
Obesity and children
Early Childhood Development
Is Being a Sports Fan an Obession?
Underage Drinking