RJA #9: Evaluation of Sources

1. Mitchell, George J. REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL OF AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE ILLEGAL USE OF STEROIDS AND OTHER
PERFORMANCE ENHANCING SUBSTANCES BY PLAYERS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. 13 Dec. 2007 <http://files.mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf>.

2. Mccloskey, John., and Julian Bailes, M.D. When Winning Costs Too Much. Lunham: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2005.

3. McCallum, Jack. "The Real Dope." Sports Illustrated March 2008. 19 Oct. 2009 <http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroids1/index.html>

4. Epstein, David. "The ABC's of HGH." Sports Illustrated March 2008. 19 Oct. 2009 <http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/hgh/>

5. Millar AP. Should Drug Testing be Banned. The Doping Journal Vol. 4, 1 (2007) Available at: http://dopingjournal.org/content/4/1/ <http://dopingjournal.org/content/4/1/dopingj042007-01.html>

6. Anabolic steroids. 6 Sept. 2007. Espn., 19 Oct. 2009 <http://espn.go.com/special/s/drugsandsports/steroids.html>

RJA #8a: Websites

Resource searched or tool used: Zakta
Keywords used: Performance enhancing drugs
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): +Performance enhancing drugs-
Date of search: 9/12/09
Number of hits: 10
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 4

Resource searched or tool used: Cacti Search
Keywords used: Steroids in the NFL
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): +Steroids in the NFL-
Date of search: 9/12/09
Number of hits: 19
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 4

Resource searched or tool used: Search Monster
Keywords used: steroids in the NFL
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): + steroids in the NFL-
Date of search: 9/12/09
Number of hits: 10
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 1

Resource searched or tool used: IncyWincy
Keywords used: steroids in the NFL
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): +Steroids in the NFL-
Date of search: 9/12/09
Number of hits: 7,637
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 2

Internet Research Project

For my internet research tool I was given Keotag. The link for keotag is http://keotag.com/. Keotag is a search engine that helps you search keywords through other search engines. You enter a Keyword for the first step, than for step 2 you pick a website/blog/search engine (delicious, twitter, google, windows live search, technorati), and finally for step 3 keotag will produce links to websites that pertain to your topic. A couple of strengths is that it produces many types of links that are related to what your keywords, and it searches differnet types of search engines. The thing I did not like is that It limits its searches only to a couple of links, it brings up links that are questionable on their credability. I was not able to find an advanced search function, one option you can use is that you can search for tags that pertain to your keyword.

RJA #5c: Search String Check

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RJA #4c: Checking Research Questions

http://nhlyeti303.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html#comment-form

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RJA #4a: Generating Keywords

Why are certain steroids and sport enhancing drugs illegal in the MLB and NFL while others aren't?

FOrms: Sport enhancing drugs- supplements, vitamins, steroidal
FOrms: Steroids- hormones, anavar, sustanon
RElated: Sport enhancing drugs- supplements
RElated: Steroids- hormones, anabolic steroids

ST: steroids: sport enhancing drugs, hormones, HGH, anabolic steroids, supplements

LOG: steroid hormone, sex hormone, organic compound

RJA #3c: Developing Research Question

1. Who decides what makes steroids/ sport enhancing drugs legal or illegal in the MLB or NFL?
What are the guidelines for use of sport enhancing drugs?
When do the Heads of the MLB and NFL ban certain steroids?
Why should the use of drugs be allowed?
2.
3. I am writing to my professor and as well as to college students. I think there interests vary from watching movies to working out to cars, basically anything and everything. My purpose in writing this is to present an argument whether sport enhancing drugs or steroids should be allowed in 2 specific professional sports.
4.
What makes certain sport enhancing drugs allowed and others not? What makes a sport enhancing drug become a steroid? Many people might not know but many steroids were once allowed sport enhancing drugs.

RJA #3a: Exploring Research Topic

After reading chapter three I have a better idea on how to narrow my topic. The textbook gave me great tools on how to ask questions about the topic and how to write a research question about my topic.

I found 4 websites that may help me with my paper. Here is the link to my Delicious account:
http://delicious.com/erubio5

RJA #2b Research Topic

The topic for my paper that choose is Why certain steroids or sport enhancing drugs are allowed in professional sports and others and are not, and what makes them those substances acceptable, and if they should even be allowed. I choose this topic because i am interested in knowing what makes a steroid acceptable and what doesn't and also what type of guidelines professional sports use to make a such decisions.
I know a couple of things pertaining to my topic. I know what sports have the most problems with steroid use. The major sports that use steroids the most is baseball and football. I understand that use of enhancement drugs can and ultimately will affect your health in the long run.
There are many things i do not know about my topic. Here are a couple of things i am hoping to learn from my topic: guidelines on how enhancement drugs are decided upon for professional sports, how to know when a supplement can be label a sport enhancing drug, and also why have professional sports allowed its players to use these drugs.

RJA #2a Possible Topics

Here are a couple of possible topics that I might write my paper on:

• Steroids, supplements, & sport enhancing drugs.- why and what make some legal or illegal in professional sports. (NFL, MLB, NBA)


• technology and how they effect society for the good and bad.

I am going to chose the topic of what makes certain sport enhancing drugs legal and others illegal by professional sports.

RJA #2C Delicious Account

This is my url for my delicious account: http://delicious.com/tags/erubio5.

Research Assignment #1 Areas of Academic Interest

• history- American/Chicano
• ancient myan/astec culture
• sports- pro-baseball(mlb)
• social work
• political science