The Research Begins

A few days ago, I began reading my journal articles. I started with a review article since I thought it would be the simplest and easiest to understand. I soon realized such a task would be much more difficult than I anticipated. I was not familiar with the terminology of osteoporosis—or really any of the medical lingo—and couldn’t really understand how any of the treatments worked. I knew that an understanding of my topic was essential to creating the machine analysis diagram, so I decided to backtrack and learn the basics.

I went to the Biomedical library the next day and checked out the five least-scary books I could find. Paging through the books and looking at the diagrams really helped me understand osteoporosis better. I began taking notes in Microsoft Word, so I can keep my thoughts organized. I feel like I am little bit behind now, because I still have not read all six journal articles; studying the books took me longer than expected. I hope to catch up on all my research this weekend, and then start my machine analysis diagram on Monday.