Relevant Sources of Information 9/17/12

For our research topic, many available resources could help us. Magazines are a big one, because there are so many sports magazines out there. Any recent accidents or injuries regarding a professional football player will most likely be in one of those magazines. Scholarly books are another source that could aid us, because we’re not the only people to think about this topic and want to research it. Therefore, scientists, professors, and anyone who found this interesting and wanted to help fix the problem would have done tons of research. We could look over this information and maybe use it to better understand our topic. Newspapers are similar to sports magazines in that they inform their readers of current news. If a professional football player got an injury, or serious illness that interested a newspaper editor, they would most likely put that in the newspaper whether it was on the front page or not. The story about it may provide information about the type of injury or illness and what maybe have caused it. Encyclopedias may help us as well, since they provide in depth information on certain topics. I haven’t looked in one a while, so I don’t remember how well they’re set up. That is something I might look into though. I’m not sure of how government documents would help us in our project, because I don’t think the government is really worried about pro football players. I mean they might be, because certain players may attain a rare disease that the government feels obligated to write about it. I’m not quite remembering everything Jessica told us in class, so pardon me if I’m wrong. I may still need help understanding these.  The scholarly journal articles may help as well, considering that they could contain articles about our topic. Like newspapers and magazines, they could provide up to date information about football related injuries. My favorite resource to use on research is the internet! It’s much easier in my opinion. I do know that not everything I read is true though, so sometimes It’s not a relevant source.

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