I just failed my cleaning check ):

Usually my research process would just consist of going on Google and searching my topic. This time around I went through the BYU library website which I found very helpful. It was pretty easy because you just type what you want and it pops up. It can also be a little frustrating because there is so much information and it is hard to narrow down to want you want exactly. Or for instance, there was a lot of information on my subject and it made it harder to narrow my topic because there was so much to choose from. I liked going in with such a broad topic and then finding what I really wanted to talk about. It made it so much more interesting to me because I found things I did not know previously.

         So far the only research I have done has been through the BYU library website because I thought that the five sources that we found for our research homework had to be from there. But now that I know it can be from other places I will begin looking at other sources. I really like the EBCOE portion on the BYU library page because I was able to find specific things I wanted to talk about. Also, I feel like the information I gathered so far I am not going to use because now I have learned about all the sources I can use, which will be better sources for my research paper.

         One thing that I can do to improve my research is to be narrower. At the moment I am researching how environmental factors bring on juvenile diabetes. There are so many different environmental factors that I think I should try to focus in on just one. Also, while I am researching I need to organize my information better. So far I have just copied and pasted the URL into a word document. I want to try to include the author, title, and a brief description at least. It would also be helpful to pick out the information I plan to use so that I do not have to keep going back to the source to try to find the specific part I want. Because now I have to go back to the URLs that I carelessly copied and try to find out what I liked about them. Future paper I plan to be more organized.