sister needs help writing a school paper.

nevaehsmommy · Apr 15, 2010

my sister for her university english class has to write an article in favor of a subject. SHE has choosen to talk about rear facing part one year. her class is two hundred student so this is awesome imho. each student will have to present. OH it is an online class as well and the paper has to be at least two pages but not more them four pages. what are your favorite rear facing links.

skaterbabs · Apr 15, 2010

check the links page on my site. www.carseatqueen.com

chop.edu has a bunch of great studies as well.

wendytthomas · Apr 15, 2010

http://carseatblog.com/?p=5168

BrendansMommy · Apr 15, 2010

Putting on my professor hat for a moment--tell her to ask if that many web sources are allowed. Lots of times, web sources are limited, which may make this subject difficult for her. It would be an awesome topic, though.

skaterbabs · Apr 15, 2010

Good point. She'll need to download and print the CHOP studies.

bree · Apr 15, 2010

BrendansMommy said:
Putting on my professor hat for a moment--tell her to ask if that many web sources are allowed. Lots of times, web sources are limited, which may make this subject difficult for her. It would be an awesome topic, though.

That's a really good idea to consider what the professor might require for the resources for the paper. :thumbsup: I think that the links should still provide plenty of valid resources, though, because while a lot of information about rear-facing is accessible via the web, they aren't all necessarily web sources. The resources above include links to articles and abstracts, some in peer reviewed journals, that simply have the content available on the web. They are still typically available in print format, so it's pretty easy to get a print citation, if a professor doesn't want web links included in the reference section.

I do think it might be a little difficult to find a book source, if that's required by the professor, though I've seen the suggestion on this forum to look for books about the space program. It was the way that astronauts traveled that prompted the design of the first rear-facing carseat; Volvo printed a history of rear-facing car seats in this pamphlet about children in cars which is where I remember first seeing that interesting fact.

Mom2FiveGirls · Apr 15, 2010

I wrote a paper on making car seat laws more strict (rear facing to at least 2, requiring harnesses until 4 or 40 lbs, boosters until age 10, etc). A good portion of my paper was on RFing and I thought I still had the links saved, but I don't. I've still got the paper saved with my sources on it, so I'll check that and post which ones I used. That paper is what caused me to stumble upon this site and become all "car seat crazy"

Of course presenting it was....interesting. It was a argumentative paper presentation so all the topics were something that could cause debates, but mine was, by far, the most heated topic. That shocked me and the teacher, but hopefully it got people to thinking. And one guy asked me some questions after class and during my presentation when things got crazy, he told everyone to hush because he planned on having kids one day and wanted to hear what I was saying. So maybe someone got something out of it. If nothing else, I sure did and my girls are safer because of it!

Anyway, I don't have my keys with my flash drive on it, but I'll post the list of sites soon.

nevaehsmommy · Apr 16, 2010

BrendansMommy said:
Putting on my professor hat for a moment--tell her to ask if that many web sources are allowed. Lots of times, web sources are limited, which may make this subject difficult for her. It would be an awesome topic, though.

Yeah we anticpated this being the case. Looking at the rubric it says the same thing. But I figure that any good rear facing article will have a paper trail of actuall articles.

She orginally wanted to do a paper about 5 pt harness vs 3 pt but really not to many car seats have just the three point harness anymore.

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