Terry Singh
ENGL1102
2/5/2016
Robin Wharton
How On-Campus living relates to a built environment and how it affects students
“College Residence and Academic Performance: Who Benefits From Living on Campus?” College Residence and Academic Performance: Who Benefits From Living on Campus? Web. 05 Feb. 2016. >.
The Source above is an article on the effects of living on campus for college freshman. It’s an unbiased view and provides details on someone’s GPA, their persistence, their change they go through and it also gets compared to living off campus with family. It’s mostly an unbiased viewpoint and contains many details about research and studies that have been taken on this matter. What’s different is that it takes into account the different factors that other studies haven’t such as what type of college it is, the ethnic background of the majority population, and lastly; it takes into account the different types of students that come to the college. This article relates to how a built environment impacts the people that occupy it. I found the articled on Google Scholarly, so it has credibility. The Source however does not take a stand on the subject, it mostly just gives information on the studies that were taken
Lau, Esther Yuet Ying, Chronobiology International: The Journal of Biological & Medical Rhythm Research. Aug2013, Vol. 30 Issue 7, p910-918. 9p. 3 Charts, 6 Graph
Lau, Esther Yuet Ying details in the above article the personal affects that housing has on the students. It examines the moods, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, chronotype, and physical and psychological quality of life. This source examines how the built environment effects the morning type campus residents and that they experience more deteriorating wellbeing more than afternoon type campus residents. Choosing this source was relevant and credible because It answers the question of “what’s the effects of campus housing,” and because it came from the library reserves. I chose this source because it gave more knowledge on my topic and it came from a different country; so it provided facts on another environment other than Atlanta. Broadening the backgrounds of the people surveyed and studies increases the diversity and decreases the biasness. The source seems to be really great although it does have a few instances where it details information that isn’t really that relevant to my subject. This source relates to the above source many ways because they both show the impacts of student housing on the minds of college freshman and the impacts they have.
Robinson, M. B., and Roh, S. (2001). Crime on campus: A survey of space users, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal 3(4): 33‑ 46. Original published and copyrighted version by Palgrave Macmillan (ISSN: 1743-4629). DOI:10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8140104
Robinson examines in his article the relationship to crime and university housing. He gives lots of details on the crimes that are usually committed around certain universities and shows the effects it has on the students. The article also shows how the impacts of the university and crime rate can change student’s perception of college. I chose this source because it seemed very credible coming from the library reserves and it related to the topic of how an environment is built impacts people. The flaws that I see in the topic is that is states the crimes rates but it doesn’t consider all campuses. Here at GSU we have multiple robberies and in the source it states how robberies are the least focused crime and how drugs and alcohol abuse it the most; however, here we have taken extensive precautions for our library robberies and not much has been done about the alcohol and drug abuse. This article relates to my there sources because they all show the effects of what a built campus has on the students that populate it. It also shows what effects it has on the minds and grades of the students and whether or not the changes that students will go through is worth staying on campus.