Research Paper 3/1/18

Today in class we were working on our research papers' again for the second day. Many of us chose a documentary that we wanted and were directed to create an argumentative essay based on the facts from the documentary plus what we find as resources from databases. I was working on gaining evidence for my essay to connect to the 4 claims I had made for the essay. This way I could revise and rewrite my thesis and provide stronger evidence for my claims and make them stronger through revision. One of the resources/ articles should be from the chosen documentary, one resource should be a peer-reviewed article, and the rest can be articles from databases like Gale and Ebscohost. The research paper should obviously be in MLA Format and the articles you used should be in a works cited in proper format as well. My thesis throughout the week has slowly been improving, however there's still the concept of being lost in what to look for while in databases. A main problem that I find is that when I do look something up and try to pinpoint what I am searching for, I either get very broad search results or results that don't matter with the search topic at all. With my documentary being 'Icarus' my searches on the database are going to be more about steroid use and the side effects of it and how Russia was using these performance enhancers in order to get an advantage in the Olympics.