Hello again! At the beginning of the week, I narrowed down my topic to emulate the podcast shows of Lexicon Valley or Stuff You Missed in History Class. After brainstorming on my two different topics, I decided to go with Stuff You Missed in History Class. I specifically liked the shows titled "What Really Happened in Salem?" and "Lizzie Borden and her Axe (Update)." These two shows particularly captured my attention and, even though I am not specifically emulating the topic of these shows, I like the way the podcast is created.
What really captured my attention from these two podcasts is the way they spoke quietly, yet annunciated everything properly so that I could still understand what they were saying. I found that the quiet conversation that they were having is what particularly kept me engaged because it sounded like they were telling a story. This story telling aspect is what I particularly want to emulate. Their pace was slow, which was what allowed me to keep up with all the information they were telling me. The interesting thing about these podcasts is that even though their sentences are quite long, I am still remembering most of the facts and am still interested throughout the entire podcast. It felt as if the two podcast speakers were standing right in front of me and telling me the story and, therefore, it felt quite personal.
The use of quotes and sources from newspaper articles, books and news shows is exceptionally useful because, if a listener is interested, they can look up the full source online. It also allows the podcast speakers to be seen as credible since they are sourcing where their information is coming from.
I liked the titles from the podcasts as well like the ones I stated above, as well as one podcast I have not had a chance to listen to yet since it is exceptionally long- titled "The Fantastic Fitzgeralds." The titles of the show are simple, yet still tell exactly what the show is about. The use of a small description below the title is also very helpful. Like the podcasts on this show, I want my podcast to have the same effect. What I mean by this is that each time I listen to another podcast from this show, I become more and more interested, and want to listen to more of these podcasts. Not only are these podcasts interesting because of the topic, but also because of the style (language, tone, pace), which I stated above.
My podcast show will be about the Holodomor, which is the Ukrainian genocide. I decided to do my podcast on this topic because I am Ukrainian and have been informed about this event for most of my life. I feel like not many people (non-Ukrainians) know about this tragic event and I want to be the person to inform others about it.
I already had an idea of my topic before Professor Bell mentioned SPARK in lecture and when I started to try to look for the site, I could not find it on the internet because I have never heard of this website and I didn't realize that it was on the York University website. However, I did find tips on narrowing down a research topic on two other University websites from America (*see below*). These tips were helpful when I was trying to formulate a research question. I realized that I wanted is to emulate the title of one of the podcast shows from Stuff You Missed in History Class, so my research question is: "What really happened during the Holodomor?"
My final tip? Make sure that you are interested in your topic and that you know for sure that you will be able to stick with it for the duration of the project!
Time to start researching! Good luck everyone! :)
Links stated above:
http://libguides.mit.edu/select-topic
http://library.ucsc.edu/help/howto/choose-a-research-topic
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