W14: Introductions Shanice Grocia

Hello there!

My name is Shanice Grocia, and I am a Professional Writing and Communications double major. I joined both majors after the end of my first year – guess you can say I found my ‘true calling’! I have a great interest in studying journalism and editorial. Through volunteering at CHRY 105.5 FM and the York University campus paper, I have experienced a bit of both of these fields; but would love to take a course focused on both of them. I’m actually pretty excited for the short podcast episode being featured in this term! I don’t actually make or listen to podcasts at all, but “On the Media” would be a great topic to explore. 

I've done research for other courses, but it was mainly searching for quotations for use in essay writing. This research was usually done through the York Library website and other online databases. This being said, I have not used information management softwares such as RefWorks or Zotero. By the end of this course, I hope to have gained a better handle of researching and a strategy to make it as efficient as possible.