Good evening Class and like the rest of you I wonder if we all had issues finding information specific for our topic or better yet trying to refine our topic to something we want to research. For my at least I settled on Management skills and development since I'm going towards a degree in organization leadership in hopes of one day helping lead a company.
So onto the research, I started off with the Brandman Library in hopes I could find exactly what I was looking for first and then move that over to my Google domain search under .edu and .org. Well turns out after about 45 minutes to a hour I found something from Sage that had to do with management learning and education development which will help me in the area of understanding education and learning requirements for these positions.
From there I went over to good old Google.com and started my search using the same criteria that took me o so long to find the right string of words, characters and odd phrases and I felt like I hit a gold mine on a website. Its called American Management Association and its a site dedicated to the development and education of management and leaders. I found what you could call a gold mine, but more like a couple hundred gold mines because the site has so much information that it will take time to pick through and find exactly what I want but on the flip side the information is solid and easy to find and use for my purpose.
What I found worked best was to start broad like the instructions said and then find the key words to refine your search slowly into what exactly you were looking for and then go from there. I feel that my research topic is still rough but I'm hoping as I have more days to think on it I will hopefully either fall for it or change an aspect of it to better suite the project.
Dan Highfill
It was a little difficult for me to figure out my topic as well. Like you I also did my topic based off of the degree I am getting and work field I want to be in. Being I am studying criminal justice and want to work in law enforcement I choose to research police interactions with society and their affects.
ReplyDeleteI have tried using Brandman Library a couple of times and have not had much luck using it. It always seems like I will read into an article and half way through realize it was not what I was looking for. I ended up just going to the local library and finding my book that way. Google was pretty helpful for me in my search too. I was able to find a .gov sight that gave me lots of information. It nice seeing how everyone else has started their research topic. Good luck in narrowing down your research topic. Maybe figure out what field of management you want to be in and focus on what kind of management skills are needed for that field. May not help; but I tried.