Class Blog 3

   As I mentioned in the last blog post, my paper is about bullying. The research right now is going well in my standards. I'm finding some of the information on a few journals online and some in the library in a pamphlet. When I started researching, one keyword I used was bullying. That brought up a lot of stuff I can use. I had to sort through them to find ones that are useful, which I will talk about it later. A few other keywords I used were cyber and youth. All of these keywords are helpful for my research because I am finding information I can use. These are the only ones I have used so far.

   There are a lot of sources for my topic of bullying. Just by typing bullying into the library search gave me more than 33,00 journals (after checking scholarly journals) to look at. Which I am using some of them right now. Going into this topic, I already knew that this was a major topic around America and that there is lots of information about bullying. So I wasn't really overwhelmed by the number of sources that came up.
   The approach that some sources took were different. For example when I sorted everything out, one journal, that I might consider using, said anti-bullying programs for middle and high schools which talks about that. Another example is a journal that was focused on cyber bullying. So some of the information I'm getting is coming from different and same information about bullying.
   They way I sort through the sources is first by clicking the scholarly check mark to get peer reviewed journals. Next I went to the publication date and made it from 2009-2014 to narrow it down a little. Then I went to geography and clicked USA. So far, this is how I sorted through all of my sources that came up when typing the word bullying. The criteria I used to figure out if it is useful or not is the publication date, who is it by, and who is the publisher.
   Just by sorting through all of these sources, I learned that there are still lots of information about bullying that I can use and by looking at some titles, I saw that I can include some other type of bullying that I totally forgot about. That type is cyber bullying. When I thought of this topic, it slipped my mind. Now I know to look up some information about cyber bullying as well.