Friday, April 10, 2009

Altering my topic

This week i changed my topic a little bit. My original topic was why dose professional baseball care more about steroids than any other sport. I changed the topic to why do some high school athletes take steroids. The main reason I changed my topic was because I am really not interested in baseball at all. I really don't get why it is americas past time no offense to anyone who is a huge baseball fan or plays baseball I just don't  get it sorry.

3 comments:

Judy Gressel said...

For high school athletes and steroids go first to Opposing Viewpoints and CQ Researcher.

No bib posts for either of these sources yet. If you already did that, then go to ProQuest and or Health and Wellness Resource Center (another Gale database)
do advanced searches for "high School" AND steroids.
Much has been written on this topic

Judy Gressel said...

1) Enter more sources into Noodle Tools and annotate them.
2) That will help with mapping out your topic and lead to thesis statement development.
3) If you've already been to Opposing Viewpoints and CQ Researcher, then continue your search in Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale database)
4) Go to National Public Radio to listen to 3 related stories:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15636588
5) see also CBS news video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3617534n

Judy Gressel said...

Go to the National Health Institute and see: http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/steroids/anabolicsteroids5.html

To see prevention programs:
http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_notes/NNvol12N4/Steroid.html

Also, listen to 3 stories on National Public Radio:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15636588

Enter your sources into Noodle Tools and annotate them. This will lead to a mapping of ideas.

This will lead to a good thesis statement.