I would approach this story by focusing on the different measures that college campuses are taking to prevent steroid abuse on college campuses. Firstly, I would conduct a basic search using the search engines from google and yahoo. This step will help me begin to gather information on this topic by clicking on different links that I feel are relevant. By doing this, I will also be able to look at which web sites I feel have more credible information. For instance, after the google/yahoo results appear, I would check to see if the web site link ends in .edu or .org.
After looking at various web sites from this first step, I would then research the scholar option powered buy Google. Searching for articles using this option will help me search for scholarly literature from different sources for free. Using the internet has given me a good start. For example, http://www.drugabuse.gov/ and http://www.steroidabuse.gov/ has information on several initiatives to prevent steroid abuse, why it is harmful for young college athletes, and statistical information of steroid abuse. I will also use The National Collegiate Athletic Association web site to conduct research. It has a lot of information on the nation's college's and universities athletic programs and issues regarding college atheles.
Then, I would use the FSC databases to search for more information. I would search on Lexis-Nexis to find recent medical news regarding steroid abuse and prevention on college campuses. I would also use EBSCOhost to find full text journals and statistical information of college students abusing steroids. Lastly, I would also search the FindArticles to find articles covered by major publications.
I would then go onto different college web sites and check out their wellness programs. I would interview staff from the college's wellness center, such as the Wellness Director and/or Assistant Dean of Wellness. The wellness staff may be able to provide statistical information of students dependant of steroids on their campus. Then I would ask the wellness staff what are the various programs available on campus to educate students on this drug and has these initiatives decreased the number of students abusing this drug. For example, FSC has the Healthy Campus Coalition program to promote wellness by sharing useful information on campus. I would conduct an interview with the director of this program to find out how do they try to reach out to steroid abusers on campus and do they run into a lot of them frequently.
I would use powerreporting.com to find a coach or professinal educator who has successfully help a college student stop harming their body with this drug.
List of sources and web sites:
1. www.google.com/scholar
2. FSC online databases: Lexis-Nexis/Findarticles/EBSCOhost
3. Online search engines: Google/Yahoo
-www.drugabuse.gov
-www.steroidabuse.gov
-www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
-www.usdoj.gov
4. http://www.ncaa.org/
5. FSC Wellness Center web site
6. powerreporting.com
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good insight on Twitter, but I think it's in its infancy stage, like Facebook used to be.
ReplyDeleteI wanted you to investigate further with the Web sites you found and give the information you found there.