Final Day Activity 105-26 04/13 by Julian Dodson

Final Day Activity 105-26 04/13

2026-04-13 21:35:12 UTC

Emilia Arango Fraly, Amandine Berthe, Collin McMaken

The weekly readings on Perusal helped us develop skills like analysis and summarization. We also learned research skills by navigating how to find primary and secondary sources on different research sites (search it, ProQuest, etc.).
Some advice we would give to future History 105 students is to show up to class! Showing up every day will help you succeed easily because you will be caught up and have a better understanding of the class. Another piece of advice would be to attend office hours when you're available. These are super helpful for clearing up any questions or concerns, as well as getting extra support from the professor!
Something we would do differently is not procrastinate and work on papers like LRAs before the due date arrives. These papers deserve multiple days of research, and spreading it out makes it easier.

Forrest Anderson, Kaidin McDaniel

2026-04-13 21:35:14 UTC

1) Important skills we learned this semester: Finding primary sources and differentiating them secondary sources. We also learned That information excluded from primary sources can be important too (ex the Columbus letter and Gold)

2) Come to class and enjoy the lectures, the concepts become way easier to understand with a conversation and another perspective. Just scanning a document will have you missing big ideas.

Office hours are chill and Dr J, will be happy to guide you in any aspect you need. Great resource for LRA assignments, and revisions

During the LRA work well early makes the final paper easier

Juno, Brodey, Dan, Kianna, Madelyn, Kyra, kenzie L

2026-04-13 21:35:56 UTC

Skills-To not Procrassion and be proactive with the LRA it becomes very difficult to do them on a friday afternoon, so to do them part by part and making work loads lighter.

Commucations- with the professor because they want you to succed, so to go to office hours and see what you need to work on and fix it. As well as go to LRA workshops

advice-Take this class not for the credit but for the vaulble information you will learn in doing reasearch and finding good sources.

Use class mates- Get advice from classmates to bounce ideas off eache other and get a better more complated project.

Simon Cameron, Aaron Nance, Bryan Sandon

2026-04-13 21:39:13 UTC

1. How to skim long texts; identifying authors' purpose; going deeper into the research process when writing papers.

The weekly text annotations and the LRA assignments throughout the semester helped us develop these skills.

2. Don't procrastinate the LRAs; do the source annotations sooner rather than later; pick research topics that you find interesting and have enough sources to write about.

3. Do the research and work on the research paper earlier. Do not procrastinate anything!!!

Ava Erickson, Dana Enderlin, Tucelia Day

2026-04-13 21:39:20 UTC

Some important skills I learned in class this semester was the importance of staying on top of source annotations because they take a while. Another skill was researching authors for source annotations so we had background knowledge on the author. Doing the LRA's helped us find good authors and strong sources as well.
Do source annotations I advance!! It helps so much and takes the pressure off when you do them earlier. Go to office hours for your LRA's to improve your grades. Don't procrastinate the LRA's also, because they require lots of information so I always tried to get them done early. The lectures are actually really interesting and connect to the source annotations which was fun.

Final Day Activity

2026-04-13 21:40:10 UTC

Vanessa C. Lilly L.

Some important skills we learned in this class are critical thinking and being detail-oriented
The advice we have is do not procrastinate the LRAs (it will catch up to you)!!! The rubric is laid out very specifically, and if you follow it, you will get a good grade. Ask questions!

James Roberson, Toni N-G, Joshua Fauver

2026-04-13 21:40:51 UTC

Some important skills that we all learned is discipline, being able to do the work while maybe not enjoying themselves. This was learned through the LRA's that we had to do, they are hefty pieces of work and need to be done. This is going to be very important for this class. Another major skill is the ability to show up; attendance is important because without the slides you will fall behind and without the knowledge of the professor it's hard to keep up.

A piece of advice would be finding people in your class to be there with you on your journey. If we did it over again, we would watch out for each other more and keep more communication. And meet up after class if needed.

Lyon Manono. Final Day Activity

2026-04-13 23:16:59 UTC

The important skills I learned were how to research a topic optimally Inorder to build the most compelling arguments and the other skill was how to compress large information into small bits that manage to capture the whole piece in a small summary.

For future HIST 105 students I strongly suggest you attend all classes because they are actually really fun compared to my belief before the class started and they are also free points. The second piece of advice is always seek help when you need it, people are way more helpful that you imagine in your head.

If I was to do it all over again, I would attend all classes. Towards the start i just didn't bother due to an assumption that wasn't real once I started attending towards the end.