journal 2

After settling on a good research paper proposal and establishing a good research question, I turned more focus towards finding useful resources. It seems most of my resources will come from the Internet, but it can be tricky finding peer reviewed and scholarly ones. Most good material that I come across on the Internet usually is a limited abstract of a bigger source yet requires purchase to access. Badke gives good examples of differentiating between scholarly and peer reviewed verses popular sources but again the payment issues aren’t totally resolved. I used controlled vocabulary and try to limit searches to two but no more than three keywords as Badke suggests in chapter 5, and throughout his book. So far it hasn’t been too bad but still requires some work.