Unit 7

With this assignment I felt insecure about doing the assignment. Every time I thought I did an assignment completely I skipped some without realizing it. I feel confident I did most of the assigned questions and did them to the best of my understanding. I also felt that it was a good idea to look at the past 6 weeks of lessons in order to make sure that I did my best on this assignment. I'm not sure ifi have processed on the process that is suggested by Kuhthau. I still feel a little lost when I'm doing some research because i'm looking at such a broad scope. I think that I'm still narrowing it down to less of a broad topic so then the paper is understandable and legible.

UNIT 6

For my responses I used a separate font. I used Times New Roman and size 16 in hopes that it would pull the attention to them or make them more noticeable.

 

 

Unit Six Assignment

This week’s Assignment is in three parts. The first part is about writing a definite research question on your topic and then using the question with some of those search terms you have been collecting to run some searches in Academic Search Complete.

The second part is using one of the articles you have found to practice writing an annotated citation. You will use this annotated citation will be used as part of your final project and it will give me a chance to give you feedback on how well you understand the process so when you do the final project you will be able to do a great job.

Finally, in the third part, you will reflect on what you learned this week and how this part of the research process fits within the Kuhlthau model that you reflected on in Week One.

Put this in your Blog, as usual.

 1. Part One- Please follow the directions exactly. You should identify each part of the assignment so that I can easily see what question you are answering. I have bolded the main part so that you know what I expect to see in your blog.

a. You have done some background research on your topic and have learned about different facets of that topic. As you have done that background work it is likely that some part of the research you have done has piqued your interest. It is time now to write a research question that you can explore in the scholarly journals. This needs to be a question that can be answered through research -- not a question that is an opinion or a single fact.

Example: Do college students identify with the elements of the Kuhlthau model of the information search process?

NOT: How many students have read about the ISP? Or Why does the ISP have to be so repetitions?

 

Question: What are types of cardiac complications are there, how do they develop, and how do you treat them?

Plan: If I can, I plan on including how the complication can affect families. Meaning either how it may make them more vulnerable to the cardiac problem.

 

b. Look at your question and identify the main concepts of this question Please list 2 or 3 primary concepts.

Example: Do college students identify with the elements of the Kuhlthau model of the information search process

 

What are types of cardiac complication are there, how do they develop, and how do you treat them?

 

c. What are two alternate terms for each primary concept?

Example: college students= undergraduates (broad term); Freshmen (narrow term)
Information Search Process= ISP, research, library research

 

Cardiac complication= heart complications, cardiac abnormalities, dysrhythmias; develop=occur, begin; treat=cure, cure, heal

 

d. Use the Academic Search Complete thesaurus and look up one subject term for each of the main concepts of your research question. Be careful that after you click on the Subject Terms link on the blue menu bar at the top of the search page that you actually do your search in the thesaurus. There are two search boxes on the page. One is for the thesaurus and one is for the database.

Example: College student - COLLEGE students    
Information Search Process- Use INFORMATION services               

 

·       "HEART disease"

o   "HEART diseases -- Complications"

o   “HEART diseases -- Diagnosis"

o   "HEART diseases -- Diet therapy"

o   "HEART diseases -- Drug therapy"

o   "HEART diseases -- Environmental aspects"

o   "HEART diseases -- Genetic aspects"

o   "HEART diseases -- Nursing"

o   "HEART diseases -- Risk factors"

o   "HEART diseases -- Treatment"

o   "HEART murmurs"

o   "HEART valves"

o   "HEART valves -- Abnormalities"

o   "HEART valves -- Diseases"

·       Cardiac Abnormality (related to above term)

o   Arrhythmia

o   Heart atrium

o   Block

o   Disease

o   defects

·       Treatment

o   therapy

·       Develop

o   None

 

 

 

e.. Write a search statement that you can use to search for information to address your research question using the subject terms you found in the thesaurus. If there was not a subject term for one of your concepts use a keyword that makes sense to you.

Example: “college student*” AND “information search process”

 

 

“cardiac abnormality*” AND development OR Treatment

“congenital heart disease” AND development OR Treatment

“cardiac abnormality” AND “risk factors”

“congenital cardiac abnormality” AND therapy

 

 

f. Do a search in Academic Search Complete with your search words and Boolean operators. Tell me exactly what words and Boolean operators you used.

 

I used each of the ones created is part e. I also included: “heart defects” AND treatment OR development

 

g. Use at least two of the database limiters and tell me what they were.

 

I limited my search to publishings from March 2009-present and chose to only look at articles for this search.

 

2. Part Two- Annotation from Academic Search Complete- Put this in your Blog

First read the hand out on Annotated Bibliographies. You will be doing an annotated bibliography for your final project so read carefully. This and each annotated citation you do in your weekly homework will be used for that bibliography (plus a couple more).

·         Select an article from your search in Academic Search Complete that you can use for your topic.

·         Tell me the citation information in the citation form that you choose.

·         Follow the citation with an annotation that is both descriptive and evaluative using the elements of annotation in the example that follows the directions and example in the annotated bibliography hand out.

 

I chose the MLA citation format.

Zhang, Li, et al. "Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography For Evaluation Of Congenital Heart Defects: State Of The Art." Echocardiography 29.2 (2012): 232-241. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Mar. 2014

 

3. Part Three- Write a brief paragraph in your blog that reflects on what you learned this week and how this part of the research process fits within the Kuhlthau model that you reflected on in Week One.

 

I learned how there are a lot of different combinations and you can manipulate the order of the Boolean operators and come up with different results. For example, ““congenital heart disease” AND development OR Treatment” is the original Boolean operator that I used and I simply switched the placement of “development” and “treatment.” This part of the research seems to be able to fall under formulation, and collection. I feel a bit more focused and clear on what I am looking for but not completely confident. I mean I’m somewhat confident but not absolutely confident in what I am doing. It makes more sense of what I am doing more than before when I would just look for items that seemed relevant and trying to fit it in the paper that I was writing.

March 8th, 2014

Boolean Search Practice

 

Tips:

• Do NOT use databases to run trial and error
• Do NOT worry about knowing anything about the topic: think of it as a logic puzzle and turn it into a search string.
• DO NOT over-complicate the search statement. Try to stick to two main concepts... Keep it simple!
• DO: Focus on the words in the statement.
• DO: Think about how to turn the phrase into a search statement that is logical to a database.

Topics to Practice:

·         Choose THREE questions

·         Write a Boolean search statement for each one in your Research Journal/Blog.

 

·         Does television advertising by the pharmaceutical industry have an impact on prescription drug abuse?

(Television Advertising OR media) AND prescription drug abuse

 

·         Has anti-smoking advertising by the tobacco industry lead to decreased smoking among youth?

Anti-smoking AND decrease AND youth

 

·         How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over someone with a high school diploma?

College graduate AND earning AND high school diploma

 

·         Debate the pros and cons of fish farming.

 

 

·         Should the federal government impose stronger standards for vehicle emissions?

(Federal government OR stronger standards) AND vehicle emissions

 

·         How much of current scientific breakthroughs were influenced by science fiction?

 

 

·         What stand does the American Medical Association take on natural medicine?

American medical association AND natural medicine

 

·         Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?

(Vegetarian diet OR protein diet) AND health

 

·         Are big box stores like WalMart and Target good for the economy?

 

 

·         Should educators use commercial services to combat plagiarism?

 

 

·         Has the U.S. trade and globalization policy hurt the middle class?

 

 

·         What is the health impact of hand blowers over paper towels?

 

 

·         How does recess in the primary grades effect classroom behavior?

 

 

·         Does marijuana use increase the risk of lung disease from toxic chemicals?

Marijuana AND (Health risk OR toxic chemicals)

 

Possible Questions to answer? These will change, doing it for my reference

• How can specific heart problems be treated?
• Is there a way to control a heart problem without surgery or medication?
• Can this be fixed surgically?
• What are the requirements for this?
• What has to be done to qualify?
• Does this heart problem require special medication?

Week 4

1.  ELECTRONIC REFERENCE:

·         I used the database. Sage ereference in order to locate an ebook. I found it to be the one that I understood the best over all the other ones.

·         In order to find the books on my topic I used the words, cardiovascular, genetic cardiology, and cardiology. I found the same book in all three cases. The book I chose to use for this assignment was a portion of a book entitled The Encyclopedia of Human Development. The portion was entitled Cardiovascular.

·         The age of the book is nine years. The book was published in 2005. The author/contributor of this section was Crystal L. Park. Crystal L. Park is a psychology professor at the University of Conneticut. She studies health psychology, stress and coping, religiousity/spirituaulity, meaning-making, and stress growth. The publishing company is SAGE publications, Inc. The book was published in Thousand Oaks.

·         Reading this portion of the book I have realized that not all heart related problems are developed through eating habits and biological factors. I discovered that there are psychosocial factors, and demographic factors. There are also four basic ways to treat heart conditions and that they are well known by people  because they can go for many other things as well: prescription, lifestyle changes, surgery, and procedure that can be done.

·         I read about symptoms, risk factors, demographic factors, biological factors, psychosocial factors, and prevention and treatment.

·         Possible research questions that I came up with are:

o   What types of treatment are there for cardiovascular disorders?

o   What are treatment options for heart problems?

o   What does the term cardiovascular cover regarding the circulatory system?

·         Words:

o   Distinctive- coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy

o   Broad- heart problems

o   Narrow-

o   Related- stress,

2.  BOOK FROM SEARCH IT, THE LIBRARYS CATALOG:

·         The title of the Book is ECGs & the Heart.

·         The book covers what ECGs mean and how they are recorded. It analyses the information that you can recover using an ECG machine. It covers how to place the electrodes properly. It also teaches you how to read an ECG and what the peaks and falls mean.

3.  EBOOK FROM SEARCH IT:

·         The title of the book that I retrieved is Clinical Cardiogenentics.

·         It was published in 2011. The Publisher is Springer in London. The Author is H. F Baars, J.J. van der Smagt, and Doevendans. H. F Baars has published books on Cardiology and is a Cardio Genetic Doctor. J.J. van der Smagt is a cardiologistic researcher at the University Medical Center Utrecht, and is in the Medical Genetics of cardiology. Doevendans is a cardiac doctor who researches human stem cells in order to repair cardiac muscles.

·         I find that I could use this to broaden my study from pediatrics to other ages as well and look at the cardiac issues for all ages and see if I can find anything about if they affect people differently at different ages.

REFLECTION:

I have learned that researching the author is a good idea and plan on doing it in the future. I don’t care about having to do so much work in order to research but have found that it is useful and time consuming. I plan on using the ASAP process in the future in order to keep up to date on the information that I am going to be using. Out dated information would not be a good idea for my topic. I think looking broadly and then narrowing it down rather than just trying to jump to a narrow topic would be most beneficial. I have always felt overwhelmed or not known where to begin on research when I don’t get any background information on a topic.