Author Archives: Carly Robinson

This week I really got a lot of great information to be used in my article. I met with two West Lafayette police officers, and with the director of Purdue Legal Services. I learned a lot, and I feel that I got a significant amount of information. I met with Captain Arthur Choate and LieutenantContinue reading “Week 9: Getting it Together”

This week was helpful because we are starting to get a clear view of the finish line. I kept sending out the survey link to all my groups messages in order to get more responses. In class we divided up the survey responses that we have received so far in order to begin working onContinue reading “Week 8: More Interviews!”

This week was a fun week for me as I finally had the chance to begin my interviewing process. On Monday, February 24th, I was able to meet with Purdue Police Chief John Cox and Captain Song Kang from the Purdue Police Dept. I met them at the police department for a short interview andContinue reading “Week 7: Interview and Survey”

This week we prepared the survey to be sent out for students/faculty to take. Figuring out the direction we wanted to take with the survey helped out with my ideas for the direction I wanted to take in my own article. Other than making the survey, this week was more of a waiting game forContinue reading “Week 6: Surveys & Preparing for Interviews”

For this week’s blog, I will discuss some of the questions I have been thinking about to ask my interviewees. I have mentioned in my previous blog who I am planning on interviewing: Purdue Police Chief John Cox, Lt. Stason Wiete, and Dr. Bert Useem. I am hoping to possibly interview one other police officer,Continue reading “Week 5: Thinking of Interviews”

This week we had our outlines/preliminary research due. I posted my outline in another blog post on this site. Please add any comments you deem necessary! With that being said, I spent most of this week working on planning the outline of my story, what my focus was, what my main questions are, and whoContinue reading “Week 4: Outlining”

I am going to post the outline I have written up on my blog so that Professor Natt can see it as well. This way my ideas can be shared and comments can be made on any other ideas anyone else may have concerning my topic. Marijuana: Police Officer Perspective The story I want toContinue reading “Preliminary Outline”

Here is a picture of the lists I had prepared for class on the topic of Cold Comfort, a reading for class. I have a list of things from the story I would have pitched and a list of things I would have to justify if I were to pitch this story to a group.Continue reading “Cold Comfort Notes”

This week was a refresher. It felt nice to get organized and figure out due dates for our major project milestones. I did a lot more research this week as I was looking mainly on social media sites for contacts. I was researching the Purdue Police Department and West Lafayette Police Department on Facebook toContinue reading “Week 3: Reaching Out”

This week we really got into the basics of the course project. In class we talked about ideas we can write about under our marijuana theme. I think this is going to be a fun semester project to work on. In time outside of class, I worked on the brainstorming of ideas, researching of myContinue reading “Week 2 Blog: Brainstorming Ideas”