Coffee Research

The plant in which I am researching and writing on is coffee.  One of the most fascinating pieces of information that I have encountered is that coffee has the ability to magnify one's perceptiveness of stressful situations in his or her life.  I always knew that coffee could make people jittery and hyper but I had not previously known that it could actually alter your anxiety levels.  I, like the majority of individuals, drink coffee at least once everyday, so I particularly found this fact interesting because it pertains to me and I was able to learn more about how this beverage could be effecting my behavior.  This detail also directly relates to the topic of my paper, which involves the negative heath effects associated with the consumption of coffee.  It affects the many individuals who consume coffee and therefore grasps the reader's attention and makes him care about the health issues surrounding coffee.

My research process has included the use of the library databases primarily to find scholarly journals, articles, and magazines related to my topic as well as the Google search engines on the Internet, such as Google Scholar.  The most helpful sources that I was able to use in my paper came from the library databases because they provided me with a vast amount of worthy and reliable journals and articles that specifically related to the issue of my paper.  The Internet was useful as well but it was more difficult to determine the dependability and accuracy of the resulting sources.  One of the roadblocks that I encountered was having to endlessly read through a lot of worthless material before finding information that directly relates to the issue and which is worthy of being used as solid evidence in my paper.  I also had to continuously come up with and enter different key terms to find adequate sources.

As I found more sources, I would highlight key terms from them and use them in the search engine of the databases.  This allowed me to overcome the problem of too many or too few results to read through.  I am sure that people have encountered this time issue, but as more research is done, additional key terms come into view that more closely relate to the problem in which you are researching for, thereby allowing you to efficiently and rapidly find new sources.