My OPAC experience...

I am back after a long week of reflexion, I have definitely choose my topic and I will stay with what I assumed to be true.

1)  The topic I have chosen to research on  and  learn more about is that gay parents have an influence on the sexual orientation of their children. I am really curious about how this assumption is correct or not.

2)      I am looking for information specifically dealing with gay parents in Minnesota.  However I think I am going to start searching general information regarding the topic first and then narrow it as I will go because It always good to start with a brainstorming on a topic and then as you research more on the topic you eliminate what bad and too broad and keep what good so you will be able to have specific information on the topic.

3)      The following steps are the string about I  have found my book.

 a.went to the library homepage and chose to do an advanced search on gay parent and their life in family.

b.  I chose English for my language and for format I chose Books and Ebooks.However, I did not select anything under the collections section.

c. Then, I searched Gay parent & their children sexuality. First i did found 30 sources relate to my topic and then because I wanted to be specific i did refine the topic under Sexual behavior and Psychology. From that I found 5 sources among books and Ebooks. Actually it was hard for me to find a specific information on a certain region I want. I look like to have information of gay parents in Minnesota  but I only find two in Latino Community which    was not very helpful to me.

d. I export only 3 of them to my RefWorks.  Then I went to look up on the selves book, with the call number, where I could find the one I found the most interesting based on the summary and description the website had posted on each resource.

4)   &  5)  When looking for the Ebook sources I found one based on my findings, However, It was difficult to me to read on the screen because I am wearing a contact glasses. I was not comfortable with it and I can tell the traditional  print book is worthly for me and I kind of like it better because I can read on it more easily.

6)      I do not have a mobile device that allows me to read an EBook and I suppose it may be helpful to people who are using it.

7)      I found the both sites to be the same, however I kind of prefer the one from the Miller Center Library  because it is the one I am more familiar with.  I used the same string to find sources on my topic. First, I went to advanced search, then typed in my keywords and I was able to find 12 books from the website. Also out of those 12 boolks I found 1 of the same I found at Miller Center Library.  The book I found interesting about the topic is :  " Daddy, Papa, and me by Leslea Newman; illustrated by Carol Thompson.  The only problem with this source I was not able to know how to get it...

In sum That was a good experience even if I was able to find what I was looking for right away... I learn a lot on my topic and hope to continue doing it furthermore.

I am searching my topic...

What next? I still think about my topic... Sorry it may take one or two days again but I promise at the end of this week I will have everything done and then I will let you know what I consider to be true about...

What Do You Assume to Be True About?

what is the truth?
Truth is not an idea, is not a feeling. There is not an absolute Truth. Truth  has a variety of meanings and sometimes people say that what true is what you are thinking about! this is true? who knows....
For me, what I believe or assume is true should be based on statistics because human beings are the ones who make societies laws. I will say what true is what most people think (more than 80 to 90 %).
I would like to challenge myself about what I suspect to be true about Gay's children. I  think that  by accepting that gay couples raise children increase  the number of this population in our society. The augmentation of this minority of persons will or not affect us in some points in the future.
 It  is my personal point of view. I believe it  because human beings adapt themselves to their surrounding and thus having children in a family Gay will not give them the choice to end up in relationships other than the ones where they grow up.
I hope I will found good sources to argue my opinion by being a critical thinker. I  am really sure it will be exciting and challenging to find those resources. I will do my best since I have the certitude that  what is not considerate as normal in a healthy society is considerate as normal in a unhealthy society.

Sorry I forgot to post my source!

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1982080?seq=4&Search=yes&searchText=thinking%3F&searchText=critical&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dwhat%2Bis%2Bcritical%2Bthinking%253F%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=4&ttl=441&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null

What is Critical Thinking?

We are all the same even if we are into different bodies. When I am talking about be "the same" I am thinking about having the same functional organs inside of our bodies. The only difference is the skin layer which cover that all system. Because of it we have to think in a critical way and not in a subjective way. The first time I have learnt and I heard about why and how to think critically was four years ago. It was when I started the college during my first semester as a freshman  at St Cloud State University in an introduction to Philosophy class.
I believe critical thinking is a reasoning process reflecting on ideas acting and decisions in intellectuals experience. It is thinking by being rational.
Many people have they own way to define this concept, however, all definition of critical thinking have to be  related at a certain point. As Kerry S. Walters says in his book entitled " the journal of Higher education":
 "Critical Thinking is a technique that schools students in the rational justification of beliefs by providing  a set of rules  with which to analyse propositional arguments."
Thinking with rationality follow a method and strategy which starts by a step and follow others as well.  IM 204 Research Strategies will help us getting this methods by teaching us the first step which is to look for sources and  then compare and contrast  what are found, follow a choice among the best which will help to argue and dispute our opinion. On other hand, learn how to think.

Hello Everybody!

I am really happy to be here with you guys because I will have a chance to share my opinions and  further clarify some ideas I have on some topics.