This year I'm very excited about doing my I Search paper because I'm going to be able to study my topic more in-depth then I was able to last year with the amount of time I'm given. The things I was most interested in studying were SSRI's and there affect on the brain, YouTube's pros and cons, and Nature. Vs. Nurture is it in our DNA or do we learn to behave that way?
I was very interested in SSRI's after reading an article in a magazine about teens and antidepressants. In the article it talked about how SSRI's work and the pros and cons of using that as a method to solve depression. While I was researching SSRI's I found it very easy to use all of the search engines/tools. It seemed to be a current topic that is constantly being updated. Doctors and pharmacists are constantly looking for alternative ways to treat depression. I found Google News and Marvel to be very helpful. Google News was most helpful though. Google news is updated by the minute so any time a new article is posted it comes up in your search results which I like because they were all very current unlike some that came while searching Marvel.
My second choice was YouTube and its pros and cons as well as how it affects today's youth. I decide this was something I was interested in because with all the talk on the news about girls fighting girls in middle school bathrooms and then posting it on YouTube for others to watch left me dumbfounded and wanting to know more about how YouTube is used and abused. It was really hard to find articles on Google news about this because the school has it blocked which meant I had to change my search a little bit to social networking. Once I did that I got a lot of hits, but nothing that sparked my interest. The databases were more helpful on this topic because they didn't block articles that mentioned things about YouTube. After researching about YouTube, although it will always be changing with the constant video uploads I don't think its something that could keep me interested for 6 months.
My third choice was Nature. Vs. Nurture, out of all three topics of interest this was the hardest to find current information. Google nor the Databases really had anything I wanted to read, it was mostly books about this topic or how this topic is intertwined in many other areas.
Over all I was most intrigued by SSRI’s and the affect on the brain, it struck me as something I could keep myself interested in for the next 6 months.
I was very interested in SSRI's after reading an article in a magazine about teens and antidepressants. In the article it talked about how SSRI's work and the pros and cons of using that as a method to solve depression. While I was researching SSRI's I found it very easy to use all of the search engines/tools. It seemed to be a current topic that is constantly being updated. Doctors and pharmacists are constantly looking for alternative ways to treat depression. I found Google News and Marvel to be very helpful. Google News was most helpful though. Google news is updated by the minute so any time a new article is posted it comes up in your search results which I like because they were all very current unlike some that came while searching Marvel.
My second choice was YouTube and its pros and cons as well as how it affects today's youth. I decide this was something I was interested in because with all the talk on the news about girls fighting girls in middle school bathrooms and then posting it on YouTube for others to watch left me dumbfounded and wanting to know more about how YouTube is used and abused. It was really hard to find articles on Google news about this because the school has it blocked which meant I had to change my search a little bit to social networking. Once I did that I got a lot of hits, but nothing that sparked my interest. The databases were more helpful on this topic because they didn't block articles that mentioned things about YouTube. After researching about YouTube, although it will always be changing with the constant video uploads I don't think its something that could keep me interested for 6 months.
My third choice was Nature. Vs. Nurture, out of all three topics of interest this was the hardest to find current information. Google nor the Databases really had anything I wanted to read, it was mostly books about this topic or how this topic is intertwined in many other areas.
Over all I was most intrigued by SSRI’s and the affect on the brain, it struck me as something I could keep myself interested in for the next 6 months.
