journal week six

Hello everyone and welcome back to another week of school talk,

Well this week I started out with My Search Strategy, in this assignment we were told to figure out different keywords or phrases that we could use to locate more information on our topics, I used Google to help with figuring out which keywords would be good to look at for information on my topic. After completing that assignment I moved on to do the periodicals database assignment, in this assignment we were suppose to locate the Proquest and academic search premier databases and answer some qeustions about both databases,we were suppose to find the answers about what dates are covered by the databases,what subject areas are included,what kind of periodicals are included and who the intended audience these databases are meant for. After that assignment I went to work on my search results, in this assignment we were suppose to use the keywords we found early on in this week to find out which ones helped in locating information on our topics by plugging the words into the Proquest database, another part to this assignment was to find four articles that deal with our topics and cite and write annotations for them using the MLA guide lines. Last but not least the Revised research plan, in this assignment we were suppose to add any new information to our research plans that we have learned this week, it could be new keywords or more information in other sections of the plan, I added a new keyword and some other information about the antarctic ice sheets I got from using the Proquest database.


I have to say this week was kinda hard and im not sure I did the citing right, the only things I had problems with was the citing and annotation writing like I did last week. but I did learn how to use keywords more to find things of interest, like I learned how to narrow the search down instead of typing in a single word like global warming I would type in global warming and the effects on climate, learning those simple thing really do help.


Alright everyone im out of here check back next week,
Joseph Mack