Kyra Pelstring
Eng 102
Febuary 2nd 2015
       Wanting to have a criminology degree when you’re older took a lot more writing experience than I thought. I know coming into college you might think there’s a lot of writing pieces in general; which there is, but have you ever thought about the different type of writing pieces you might actually have to writing? Informational, persuasive, academic, nonacademic, scholarly? When I was picking this major I was thinking there would be a lot of research and statistic type papers. I interviewed 2 professors and a graduate student.
       I had a very good face to face interview with a graduate student from the University of Louisville that I’m going to mainly talk about. She majored in criminology just like me. I asked her a few questions that persuaded her writing experience. I asked first the main question “what type of writing pieces do you write overall”. Between her and the other professors I talked to they came back with very excellent responses. There Reponses and what type of papers they write are similar to what I had in mine. They write academic informational research papers and summary papers. Usually under the department of sociology or criminology.
        I also asked the graduated student what kind of format she usually wrote her papers in and she replied with “most of the time APA”. All of my life I have pretty much wrote MLA format and I’m sure most of you high school students do the same, but there’s never a hard adjustment in the two. She mentioned also how you list or bulletin in most of your papers trying to get your information across.
        An essay that I found from online I used to compare to some of the essay you would be writing if you were trying to be in the criminology major. One was a scholarly, I used
http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/stress . It was a academic based research. In the article it didn’t have any pictures and was more bullet with main factors and results. It wasn’t biased and was straight to the point. It had research database just like if were writing a paper for criminology major. There are also other options though
        
        Another was a summary article I found; it was non academic, http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/98/2/310/ . They have straight to the point of what there trying to say. They cite all there information at the top of their page in APA format. In the article it says “(1) whether a measure assesses support structure (the existence of relationships) or function (the extent to which one's interpersonal relationships provide particular resources) and (2) the degree of specificity (vs globality) of the scale. Special attention is given to methodological characteristics that are requisite for a fair comparison of the models.” They use a away off talking about what they want to say by making a number list and putting information in parentheses.
        Academic sources and scholarly sources are very similar but scholarly sources are a peer reviewed academic sources. If you’re going to be end up going into the same major I set myself to go into you will mainly be using a lot of academic research papers.
"Stress, Social Support, and the Buffering Hypothesis." APA PsycNET. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Feb. 2015.”
"Stress." University of Maryland Medical Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2015.”