This blog is going to document the research process of a group of students as we research alien sightings in an academic setting. We starting by taking 15 minutes to create a mind map of everything we could relate to aliens. This mind map was rather large but from it we created three research questions we wanted to focus our project on. The three questions are:
- What
gives credibility to alien sightings, and how can you find validity in unproven
phenomena?
- Where
are the highest concentration of sightings within the US, and does the high
concentration areas correlate with any foreseeable variable?
- How
have alien sightings have influenced popular media, including news, movies, and
books.
These questions also revolve around the larger theme of alien sightings in the US. We also conducted a preliminary search for sources to make sure we could find reliable academic sources to help answer our question. We did this through OhioLink, an inter-library loan program our school uses. From this basic search we found a mass of books that will help us along the way. We also laid out our plan for the blog we would be writing along the way with information about how the project was going, and troubles we were having and in the end what the research told us and how we answered our original three questions. We laid all this out in our research proposal for our professor to review. We're excited to start the project and share our journey along the way.
-Kelsey
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