Creating a Topic

Answers to the questions:

A. Making sure it fits the assignment, assigned by the instructor. Interesting to you. It can be researched.

B. Library Catalogs, intranet, databases and newspapers.

C. Female basketball athletes in Utah.

D. Bills, cellphones, state legislatures, laws, reckless driving and offenders.

E. Databases: Using two specific words, such as child and obesity.
Subject: Using one word, such as agriculture.
Finding full text: Such as typing in an article, and where it was written.

F. If your looking for a topic with two key words it saves a lot of time. Due to the fact it will pull up everything the database has on only those specific two words being used together. Not information on each word by itself.

Creating a Topic:

How to create a good and interesting topic. Also how to find your topics. Anyone can go to the public library, or your school library and look on databases. Or the library news page on the Internet. All you have to do is drag your mouse over the covers of the books and it will give you a brief summary of the book. You can also look in newspapers such as the Salt Lake Tribune, or Deseret News. Go online and look in google or the wikipedia. Some topics are to broad and you will get to many results such as entire fields of study for example, politics or physiology. To create a more narrow topic think of more specific such as, where, when what kind. Make topics into a open ended question. Then follow that into a thesis and pull key words out to help find your specific topic.

Cellphone Habits of the Experts:

Rony Seger, of Weizmann Institute of Science, claims to only use his cell phone no more than one hour a day. "Everything is a matter of dosage"(Seger 1). He suggests in keeping your cellphone at least twelve inches from your body, and using your speakerphone. Christopher Woollams, Founder and CEO of Canceractive, also agrees. Has three children with cellphones and won't even let them carry them around. Only to text sparingly or to use the speakerphone for emergency. He suggests you don't carry them on your bodies while they are turned on. Other experts such as Micheal Repacholi and John Boice say, they really are not concerned about the usage of cellphones. How many calls an individual might make in a day, if at all possible use a hands free kit. Which can reduce exposure levels by a factor of between 10-100. If you can't do that, cellphone use isn't going to kill you.