Week 3 - Fun with Sources :)

This entry is wholly dedicated to the findings of my sources.  I started with the sources for the lit review.  A lot of them sourced other people, books, and papers.  I have started to try to acquire those.  For the lit review I largely depended on general web searches and Google Scholar, and I avoided any papers longer than about 10 pages.  I just didn’t have time and I didn’t need as much for that type of document, but for this stage I am being a lot more specific.  I am going to look for the full papers and read them.  Some of them are over 100+ pages, so it’s going to take a while.  I am already finding that I have to put a cap on my research documents.  I already have 10 that I could add to the 15 from the lit review and I'm not even close to getting all the works I want.  I know what Liz meant when she told us research can be addictive!  I will never have EVERYTHING written on a topic.  I have to learn when to say enough is enough.  I met with Donna Sevenpifer here at Fanshawe.  She’s the library’s research person.  She had some good suggestions, but they seem so cumbersome and exclusive.  Like, I have to choose which database I want to query (ex. EBSCO), but why cant I just query all of them?  I think the internet has made me lazy, LOL.  I have requested a few inter-library loans and have already started to lean on Kate Gibbings at UOIT library as well.  M shocked at how many of these papers want me to pay to read them.  Ridiculous! 

I signed out this book “Police Organization and Training”.  So far its awesome!  Each chapter has a different author writing about a different topic.