how's my research going??

1.  During my presearch I tried to really focus on things that would interest me but that I did not know a great deal of information about. I had always had an interest in event planning and anesthesia but when I started really diving into research, I found a great deal more credible sources for the topic of anesthesia. Quite a few showed up for event planning as well, but as I had assumed, they were not academic sources. Instead, event planning had more sources such as blogs and “how tos” which would not give me enough bulk for my project.

Once I chose to focus on anesthesia I knew immediately that I just wanted my research question to focus on an overall view of anesthesia because I knew nothing about it before beginning this project. I had undergone it a few times but I always wanted to know how it worked and what different forms there were. I am currently debating whether or not to narrow it down and how I would do that in a way that would still be able to fully explain anesthesia and how it works.  

2. I would still like to find out some history behind anesthesia and how it began so I am going to try this book:

The First Anesthetic; The Story of Crawford Long.

RD80 .L9 B6

research process

The research that I am doing now is definitely a lot more thorough than how I used to research. Before, I would just focus on using web sources and typically they were not very credible sources unless I was doing a research paper. I would normally just stick with quick info sources such as Wikipedia because I did not have such easy access to sources like the library. Now I am able to go onto the West Ga Library page and quickly access the West Ga catalog as well as the University System catalog.

The class has been pretty straight forward and easy to understand, but still providing useful information. The only things that I think that I am still having trouble with are the types of sources like primary, secondary, and tertiary. I have always had a hard time grasping these completely so I will need to spend some extra time reviewing them so that I will be prepared for our exam as well as the sources that we need for the research project.

special collections

Learning about special collections today was very cool because I did not know about all of the rare documents that we have in our very own library. I had heard about the lower level in the library but I was not sure that students were allowed to access those sources. I am very excited about being able to apply things that are so rich in history to my studies. The easiest class I could probably apply the special collections to would be my US history class. This class is limited from 1865 to the present so now that we are coming up onto the 1900s I could more than likely gain some further knowledge from the special collections.