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What strategies have you and your group used to ensure that all members are actively contributing to group assignments? Explain how you communicate, divide responsibilities, and hold each other accountable throughout the process.

Today we split up the work on the quoting sheet, so that we'd finish on time. We worked well together in a group because before today, we communicated and listened to each others opinions.  Everybody contributed an equal amount too, which is great! Today we analyzed the documents, and picked out quotes from each to use as evidence for our research essay. We finished all of our work today too, I got better at analyzing documents.
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What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements.

We had some discussions and very small arguments about what source to pick based on what we needed. There was a time that I wanted my political cartoon, but Yahiya was persistent on using his. But we decided to use  his because he persuaded me on why his was better. Didn't meet this day.
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Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research.

The most compelling issue was illegal immigration. It's very important in this project because it is the main focus on what our topic is talking about. Border control's job is to ration the immigrants trying to come in. There are many stories of people trying to come into the U.S., but may experience some issues either at the border, or way before they even make it to the border like in "Keep out!". Today we worked and collaborated in our group working on 2 papers. We had to pick the best 7 sources out of all of them, then we had to give some evidence and quote something from each source and put in on the paper. I enjoyed working in the group today because I got to hear more ideas, not just information I had to come up with on my own.
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How has completing the annotated bibliography changed or clarified your understanding of your research topic? Discuss how your sources connect to one another and how they are shaping your argument moving forward.

Working on the annotated bibliography has provided me with a lot of information that I wasn't aware about on border control and immigration. Getting to see and read all these different sources, coming from different people and their experiences or beliefs puts an impact on my opinion about the topic. The sources I chose make me feel more hatred towards border security and immigration policies.  Today we worked on our annotated bibliography in class. I got a good bit of progress done, and now that I know how to do each source, it should go by quicker and quicker.
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Which part of the annotated bibliography (summary, reflection, or evaluation) was the most challenging for you, and why? Explain how that challenge helped you grow as a researcher and how it will help you when writing your research paper.

Evaluation was the hardest because it really makes you dig deep on the author and how the source compares to others in the bibliography. I overcame that by honestly, just getting in a groove of doing it. Today we started working on our annotated bibliography on writable. I also had to finish my source document. I liked that we learned and got walked through how to write an annotated bibliography. It is very helpful to look over and see what I need to do in order to have a nice bibliography.
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As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue.

 Some perspectives between sources were mostly varying between the U.S. Government ideas, and news analysts. There weren't many views or opinions from immigrants and regular citizens about the topics. I'd like to hear what they have to say on border control and immigration in the U.S., but I wasn't given any of that through the searches. I wasn't here today due to a golf tournament.
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Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found.

It's different than searching for stuff in the past because of how easy it makes it to find exactly what you're looking for. You can "advanced search", you can select the types of source you want it to be (news, academic journal, etc). Using specific search strategies will get you proper information, and exactly what you need. Trusting sources as well.  Today we went on galileo to find some sources that matched our topic. It was a little frustrating using galileo to find some sources because there would be times where the search results would be nothing close to what I was looking for. But when that didn't happen, everything was moving smoothly.
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