My name is Christina Watkins. I am a student at Marshall University studying Communication Disorders. I became interested in studying Communication Disorders about four years ago. A friend suggested the program to me after I said I would like to do some form of therapy as a profession. I come from a long line of healthcare career relatives. I am now a senior and I also hope to attend graduate school at Marshall. I would like eventually to work in a clinical setting helping patients with acquired communication disorders.

During the summer of 2002, I decided to take a class called CD315. The class was an "Introduction to basic skills in computer networking including telecommunications, network information retrieval systems and virtual community/culture. The class satisfies the computer literacy requirement for CD majors." In the first few weeks of class we were able to gain knowledge about information literacy. This included learning about researching information on the internet, how to join professional mailing lists, how to make a webliography. I had never created a webliography nor did I have much experience on researching information on the internet.
Throughout the course of the class we had to create a Multigenre Research Project. The hardest task of this project for me was putting together an essential question. I had to choose a question to research that I found interesting and then find an answer to the question as one possible solution. I did not have trouble choosing the topic but the challenge came when I had to decide what input I want to include in the final results of my research. I decided to research information that pertained to dementia and aphasia and how to educate caregivers of patients with these conditions. I feel that my multigenre project demonstrates what I found important about this topic and how I would present the information to other classmates and the public.