Research Journal , Part 4: types of Information

Practice Questions?

1. Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?

My answer for this would be to use a Academic Journals to find studies done to see what the affects of a vegetarian diet vs. a meat diet do to the body.  Also websites from licensed nutritionists, or books written by nutritionists expert opinions from educated sources.  

2. Target often forces musicians to alter lyrics in order to have their Cd's sold in Target stores.  Is this censorship?

I would conduct my research for this using academic encyclopedias regarding freedom of speech, maybe trying to read or interview someone at Target that makes these decisions on censorship, and looking into academic journals on research done on a similar topic of censorship.  

3.  How much more can a college graduate expect to ear over someone with a high school diploma?

I would definitely use an academic journal for this research.  I am positive that studies have been done on this topic lots of times over the last 50 years.  Also magazines like Time might be a good source for articles as well.  

4.  Should educators use commercial services to combat plagiarism?

Using academic journals for a topic like this would be very useful since this has been a highly researched topic since the introduction of the Internet.  Websites may also be a great too, like Google.  Find postings by educators that have ran into plagiarism and what they have discussed in stopping it.  

5.  Is the current lack of sunspot activity affecting global warming?

Books written by an accredited author in this subject would be a great source as well as academic journals.  

3 Research Questions?

1. Does censorship infringe on Americans First Amendment rights (Freedom of Speech)?
 To answer this question I would use an academic encyclopedia to get some base information, then move onto an academic journal to see the research that has been done on my topic. 

2. How did censorship begin?
Academic encyclopedia would work for this broad topic, as well as the Internet like Google to help narrow the topic to something like When did censorship begin in the music industry?  Then I could use popular magazines like Rolling Stones, and maybe even find info from MTV.com.  

3. Who decides what material is subject to censoring?

 Like the Target question above I would try to look into some government websites to see who mandates censorship within our state and country.  Also use Academic encyclopedia for beginning information, then move onto academic journals to see if I can find a match article to answer my research question. 

Thanks,

Megan Fletcher