pma12’s TLITE blog

I found the research process both exciting and frustrating.  The idea of having the resources of the SFU Library at my fingertips was very exciting because I knew there would be a great variety of legitimate research to read and to get information and ideas from.  While using the internet and researching articles on my topic I found first of all that there were many articles to look through depending on the words which I chose to use to do my search.  I realized that I was not very good at searching and sometimes became frustrated because what appeared to be a title that would be of interest to me wound up being an article that was not useful to me.  Through several tries and through references sent to me by others who are working on the same topic I managed to get several articles that interested me and were about my topic.  I also made a trip to the library during the summer and found a huge number of books that had titles that seemed promising but upon closer inspection were not what I needed.  I discovered that there is indeed a lot of information out there but that locating information and research that is useful for my field study is not an easy task.  Even when what appears to be useful information is found having the time to read it all thoroughly and understand it is still a challenge that I am working on.