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