Week 2- The Research Begins

HELLO!

Welcome to week 2 of this amazing blog, the discussion being on the riveting topic of my search for information for assignment 1 for this course. I’m going to be arrogant and act like my research for the information was almost perfect, which is not far from the truth (awkward if I don’t do well in this assignment).

To be honest I have the research of information sussed, I wish I had a cool acronym for my process but the lack of vowels ruin it! I looked through all the normal areas, Google Scholar, Jstor, and Google Books, Google Books of course being my favorite. You don’t know how many research papers I’ve done just using Google Books, naughty I know.

I found a lot of relevant information in both google scholar and Jstor using simple search terms. It wasn’t until I started diving into all those viciously long google books though that I find the amazing stuff, I use the word amazing loosely I am talking about fluoridation after all. From there I went back to Goggle Scholar and Jstor and used more refined search terms to find more information. I also utilised normal google in search for further information on sites like Wikipedia which I could use to search more thoroughly among scholarly work. My normal strategy thrived with such a researched topic as fluoridation.

What I could’ve done better is not go through so many articles and books in search for information; I wasted a good hour of tv watching time on that, ok I lied I was watching tv the whole time. I’ll give you a tip I’ve learned of when going through copious amounts of sources and that is when your researching about fluoridation and all of a sudden the sources are about the effects of mandarins on gorillas you know you’ve gone too far (for anyone unsure that didn’t actually happen in my research but you get my point).

It’s time to say goodbye from me as it’s time for me to sort my fantasy basketball team for tomorrow.

Bye bye now,

 Joel

An introductory into the amazing life of Joel Toon

Hey everyone, my names Joel and this is of course my blog for Communications in Science (summer school edition). Each week this blog will provide you with intriguing  blogs on my thoughts about the science world, I'm actually quite jealous you guys get to read such an amazing blog every week! This week is an introduction to the one and only me.

I'm 22 years of age and a male, hence the boy name. Originally born in Auckland, I eventually graced Palmerston North with my presence as a young chap, and when I say young I was a little kid with no choice in the matter. Of course I still kept my sport affiliations with the Auckland sports teams though, no offense to Hurricane supporters but Blues are just so much better. I've lived in Palmerston North ever since bar a two year absence when I did law in Wellington, which I absolutely hated hence the change in degree.

I love my sports and even though this information is not relevant and no one reading this blog is actually going to care I'm going to list my sports teams anyway. I'm a big fan of the Greenbay Packers, LA Kings, Boston Celtics, Essendon Bombers, Wests Tigers, of course the Blues and any New Zealand national side but namely All Blacks and the Kiwis. And if anyone doesn't like those teams,  in the words of Chris Brown,

"Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it." 

I'm not a Chris Brown fan I just googled 'quotes about haters' if anyone was about to make conclusions about my musical tastes.

Now onto the serious stuff, I'm currently studying Health Science with a major in Sports and Exercise with the intent of doing a Physio degree after I finish. I love the gym and love the idea of helping people with serious health issues live a normal life. I've loved the gym ever since I lied about frequenting the gym to get a job eventually making my self go all the time, mostly at ridiculous hours of the morning.

If I'm going to be honest I only took this paper because a communication paper is required for my degree but as I started to look at the course content I realised this this course will at least help me in future science courses. Communication in general will be vital in my planned future career with constant communication with patients a must.  I would say my communication skills are average with no obvious strengths or weaknesses. That being said I really don't like public speaking but can still do it if absolutely necessary.

Bye bye until next week. Remember if you miss this blog that much you can just reread it over and over again!

Thanks for reading everyone.

Joel Toon signing out, that sounded so much cooler in my head!