Tag Archives: research

I Can Do it All (in theory)

- April 16, 2013

Today I am supposed to talk about the most interesting research I’ve ever done for a story. One of my favorite things to do in life is to learn. I’d be a student forever if I never had to take tests (or pay tuition). I love to read to absorb knowledge and learn. This tendency has […]

Literature and History

- January 28, 2013

It was just a few years ago that I was writing non-fiction every month for school. Throughout my college experience, I was enrolled in several high-level English classes which often required study and commentary on works of literature. One of my favorite assignments was the analytical research paper. I enjoy arguing and a research paper […]

An Assembly of Greys

- January 28, 2013

Sometimes, I wonder if there is such a thing as non-fiction. A professor of creative writing at Iowa State used to tell the story of a non-fiction class she taught. She had a student whose insane life kept her captivated throughout the semester. He was the son of a single mother and a man who […]

What’s Wrong With Asking the Crowd?

- May 19, 2012

When I was in library school, about half an Internet generation ago [0], we were warned, very specifically and repeatedly, against relying on Google or Wikipedia or any other online resource authored by “non-authoritarian” sources. Instead, we were directed toward proprietary academic and professional databases— EDGAR, Dialog, Lexus/Nexus, Westlaw, and the like. I chalked up […]