Personal Statement For A Research Assistant As A Career

Research Assistant is an important job and I am not very confident in my research skills yet, but the first research assistant task I feel I can do is the score and/or code the collected data, enter them into a spreadsheet or statistical analysis program. I feel I can score and code because ever since I watched a soccer or football game with my dad, I always kept saving the scores for each team in my head and keep track of the game. The other research assistant job I like is to conduct literature searches using resources like PsyclNFP,Google Scholar, and Social Sciences citation Index;search my local library database for books and periodicals; make copies of articles available; order unavailable resources through interlibrary loan; organize PDFs; undertake general library research. I like this type of research because I feel that literature expands our thinking

I am not a good researcher and I am not confident in doing research, but I need to help myself to learn how to research with the help of my college professor and other classmates. I need to gain research experience so that I get the hang of it and start using that skill for a lifetime. I am a week conference presentation speaker. In my opinion, If I become good at research my weekness in presentations would be fixed, because then I would have researched and gathered the information I need to be presenting. I would not feel bad about after the presentation questions I will be asked and I will answer them with confidence, knowing the fact that it is the right answer. Teaching assistant, General psychology is a hard one for me now, because I am a sophomore in psychology major for now and my mind is still working to get around the whole psychology program. I am still trying to figure out where and what I am good at in this major. I definitely do not know most of the psychology secrets yet and i need more time to analyze it in my