Week 8

Well this week seemed really hard to me. I worked really hard trying to get everything done. Since I finally decided which places to use the week it made the assignments harder because I had to go back and do new research. Im really starting to understand more about my topic the more I read. I didnt turn in one of my assignment in on time but I turned it in as soonn as I could so hopefully I can still get some feelback on it. Im still having trouble with MLA citations but Im really working on it. I still have to do my peer feedback and I hope what I have to say really helps someone. Well its on to week 9 and I hope its better than this week.

Source Selections Draft

I didnt get it quite finished but its a good start.


Reference:
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“Tuberculosis.” faqs.org. 3 March 2009 http://www.faqs.org/health/Sick-V4/Tuberculosis.html
This article was intended for those who are interested in the health of themselves and others. It is not in hard to understand. The article is very similar in content to other articles that I have read. It explains who is affected and some of the reasons along with how we are working to fight it.
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“Tuberculosis." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 3 Mar. 2009 https://email.bigbend.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e5a16d4449cf45f2972a40c4817016d5&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.search.eb.com%2feb%2farticle-9073667.
This article was intended for a general audience wanting to inform themselves on tuberculosis. It explains the causes and prevention methods that you can take against tuberculosis. It also explains the medicines that are being tried on tuberculosis patients and how some tuberculosis strains are becoming harder to cure.
Organizations:
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is an organization interested in helping individuals get the information that they are looking for about diseases around the world. The CDC is a major component of the Department of Health and Human Services. The pledge of this organization is “To be a diligent steward of the funds entrusted to it, to provide an environment for intellectual and personal growth and integrity, to base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived, to place the benefits to society above the benefits to the institution, to treat all persons with dignity, honesty, and respect.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC INFO (1-800) 232-4636 e-mail CDC-INFO at https://email.bigbend.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e5a16d4449cf45f2972a40c4817016d5&URL=mailto%3aCDCINFO%40cdc.gov
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The World Health Organization is an organization that is trying to help inform the world of health risks that are everywhere. The core functions of WHO are: “providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed, shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge, setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation, articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options, providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity, and monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.” It contains resources and results unknown by some of the other websites that I have come across.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Address:
World Health Organization Phone: + 41 22 791 21 11
Avenue Appia 20 FAX: +41 22 791 31 11
1211 Geneva 27 email: info@who.int
Switzerland

Statistical Source:
The CDC gave me some great pages that gave me statistics on tuberculosis. It showed how there were declines in some countries and increases in others. It also showed out of all the tuberculosis cases how many ended in death.
http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsWorldTBDay/
Books:
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This book talks about how tuberculosis has been around for a long time. And the doctors and researchers that have worked to get rid of the disease. Also it talks about how it has a new ally in AIDS.
Ryan, Frank. The forgotten plague : how the battle against tuberculosis was won—and lost. Boston : Little, Brown, 1993.
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This book is about how cancer and tuberculosis were made into fantasies in earlier years. It also talks about how AIDS is working with tuberculosis against cures.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as metaphor. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
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Week 7

This week was a little interesting. With the discussion going down. Some of my work from week six was done on a different computer so I didn't have it saved on computer but I had it written out on paper, good thing too. So I had to re type all of it.
Web Citation wasn't too hard it was easier than citing a book. I thought I did okay on that one.
Advanced Google search was great. I found out that there was more to google than I had originally thought. I know I'll use that information again in the future.
Web search was interesting. I learned which places worked best in finding what I was needing.
I learned a lot this week and enjoyed myself. This week taught me to save everything no matter what computer you are on. I think I'm learning a lot on Tuberculosis.

Week 6

When I started on the Periodical Databases assignment I started having trouble with the sites. I dont know what happened but they kept freezing on me.
The my search strategy assignment was easy. I used a dictionary and thesaurus to help me find some related words and synonyms and then tried searching with those words on different websites and got new information.
The my search results assignment went okay. The only thing I had real problems with was the MLA formatting.
The revised research plan was easy because most of it was the same with a few additions to make it better.
The more I research this topic the more Im interested in it. I find out things I didnt know before. Being around people that have TB where I work this helps me to learn more about it and help them to try and not feel so alone.

Week 5

This week was horrible I am not good at MLA formatting. I went through and used the readings provided to help me to try and put my citations in the right format. I was easier having a sheet infront of me then trying to do it from memory. So this week helped me in improving my MLA citing abilities.
With the annotation analysis I just used the readings to find out what made the annotations good or not. It was a pretty easy assignment.
Citing and Annotating Sources was kind of difficult for me. I tried to write an annotation correctly, but I'm not sure I got it quite right.
I think this week helped me to understnad things I otherwise wouldnt have like annotations. It wasn't a extremely hard week, but it was no piece of cake either. Im looking forward to next week.

Week 4

This week was pretty interesting. The assignment of the origin of Canuck was interesting. It was a little difficult to figure out which ideas were true and which ones weren't. I thought it was hard to make it seem like my idea was the right one since there were so many ideas out there. I learned that not everything you find on the internet is true, so you should watch where you get your information.
For the assignment Selecting Information Sources I went to the Big Bend Library as well as hitting the internet. I wasnt able to watch the video but I was able to read about it on the link provided. I really had to use my head on this one.
The Research Plan assignment kind of gave me a rough plan on what I was going to need to do.
I think that its going to help me in the long run.

WEEK 3

As I began week three I was behind in my work. I worked hard to try and get ahead on my work.

The assignment, organizing information, was easy. I just used the collection I already had and how I organized it. I read other peoples ideas and how they did it and it gave me some ideas on how I could change and improve some of my other collections.

Library catalogs was not as interesting to me. I went to the Big Bend Community College to use the computers there. I searched their library catalog and North Central Regional Library. The Big Bend one was a little easier to use, but it was probably because I had been on it before. Going onto the North central regional library gave me access to other places to search.

For the library visit I used the same library at Big Bend. As I searched around the library I learned more than I had before. Also I got to know more about the way things ran inside I library. I liked that they had study rooms available for anyone to use.

For the databases assignment I used the Big Bend library catalog and Pro Quest. I liked the way that you could navigate pro quest from the page, but once again Big Bend site was easy because I had been there before. I did learn how to use pro quest which I had never used before.

This week was interesting. I learned more than I thought I would this week. I thought that this class wasn't going to be real great, but I'm actually starting to learn things I probably never would have.