As this is an introduction, I'll start off in the most obvious manner possible: hi, I'm Paige. I have an inexplicably appropriate name, so much so that I often wonder if my parents knew I would love books and writing as much as I do (although I already know the story: I was named after my mother's favourite soap opera actress back in the day).
I am a second year Professional Writing and English major, and I'm planning to follow the book stream. I am also interested in creative writing (I'm even doing a creative writing course this year which has since solidified the fact that poetry and I do not agree) but I also find psychology a very interesting topic of study.
I usually find research to be a very tedious task, unless the topic is of great interest to me. If I like what I am researching, I can spend hours on the internet, in the very depths of its corners trying to find every last piece of applicable information, even if I have no intention of using it. I have never used anything more than Google, Google Scholar, the library and it's online databases as research tools, as most university students have, but management software such as RefWorks and Zotero would make research a lot easier and I plan on using, and abusing, them now that I know they exist.
I have listened to a few podcasts, I could count them on one hand. Two of them I've listened to today. I haven't had much experience in that area but it definitely interests me and I think this podcast project will be a lot of fun and give me a chance to learn more about research and how to do it effectively. I plan to do a podcast under the topics: Sparks, On the Media or Under the Influence, because these topics all deal with things which would be a part of my day-to-day life, and the saying always goes: write (or in this case talk) about what you know.
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