E-Portfolio #6 Dr.Dana Williams

Dr.Dana Williams was the last speaker to present before we begin our presentations. Her presentation "Basic Components of Research" focused on four major elements of a research project giving us insight into our upcoming group presentations. They were methodology, framework, development of the thesis and conclusion. She explained each element for a complete research project backing up her work with the example of a case study of freshmen seminar and how we should go about out projects. This was one of the most helpful presentations seeing as though we were about to start our group projects and many of my peers including myself were a bit confused about what was expected and how to go about our projects. And the fact that we will be heading into ENG 003 next semester which will primarily focus on research papers and with Dr. Williams being the head of the English department it was kind of like a heads up for expectations and a future reference plan for research papers. She explained it well using our freshmen seminar classes as the case study and how it showed awareness and memory through our blog posts. I will very much take heed to what Dr.Williams has shared with us and plan to use it to my advantage next semester and hopefully my group presented our project with this same correct research format to our upmost capability.