In writing my annotated bibliography this week I chose the references
that were the most authoritative, relevant, and beneficial to me in answering
my research question. In addition to this criteria, I also discriminated based
on the type of reference to ensure that I presented a variety of work. To that
end, my annotated bibliography includes three books, two peer-reviewed professional
journal articles, and a empirical article. I am pleased to say that I was able
to conduct most of my research using resources from the Leatherby Libraries.
When I first heard one of the new student orientation briefers touting the
boundless virtues of the Leatherby Libraries services back in August I felt fairly resolved that I would
likely not be paying an online library service a visit a time soon. However, a
fundamental consequence of receiving an education on any new topic is having
one’s perspectives and ideas questioned and even challenged. In this case I am
glad that I had the opportunity of this course setting me straight about the
Leatherby Libraries early on so that I can carry it’s resources with me into
futures courses and research work at Brandman. Two of my book references I
discovered directly on the library’s homepage using an ‘Advanced Search’ and
the other book I discovered through Google as a first step, then clicking into
World Health Organization’s website I was able to download an electronic
version of the book from the WHO’s impressive database of research files and
resources. As for the professional journal articles, I found one doing a
journal subject search on Leatherby and for the other I resorted to Googling for
an applicable article, then discovering one that seemed promising I took the
article’s title with me back over to Leatherby for a journal search by the
title and eureka it was there! Lastly, the empirical article I found using
Leatherby Library’s ‘Academic Premier Search.’ In the past three weeks of my
research I have discovered a surprising amount of informative, reliable
research that has answered my research question quite thoroughly! There isn’t any particular aspect of my research
topic that I feel remains lacking or unanswered. Therefore, my plan is to use
the research time next week to reexamine all of the answers I’ve formulated to
my research question and ensure that they are as clear, relevant, and concise
as possible.
