Friday, March 21, 2008

ENG 112 - Week 8

Resources Searched: Quintara, Windows Live
Key Words: Symptoms of lou gehrigs disease, treatment for lou gehrigs disease, life expectancy of lou gehrigs disease patients

Hit 1:aafp.org/afp/990315ap/1489.html
Relevance: 3


Hit 2: healthscout.com/ency/68/53/main.html
Relevance: 5

Hit 3: mayoclinic.org/lou-gehrigs-disease/treatment.html
Relevance: 5

Hit 4: afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gslg9
Relevance: 1

Hit 5: innovation.org/index.cfm/innovationtoday.html
Relevamce: 3

Hit 6:bidmc.harvard.edu
Relevance: 3

Hit 7 : medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=85909
Relevance: 2

Hit 8:nevretalk.pychentral.com/archive/index.php/+-357.html
Relevance: 2

Saturday, March 15, 2008

ENG 112 - Week 7

Resources - Quinture and Windows Live
Keywords - ALS and ALS inherited gene lou gehrigs

Date: March 15, 2008
Hit 1: docquide.com
Relevance: 7

Date: March 15, 2008
Hit 2: neurologychannel.com
Relevance: 10

Date: March 15, 2008
Hit 3: lesturnerals.org
Relevance: 4

Date: March 15, 2008
Hit 4: mghmind.org
Relevance: 6-7

Date: March 15, 2008
Hit 4: genomenewsnetwork.org
Relevance: 3

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

ENG 112 - Week 5

Resources Searched: Yahoo and prospector
Keyword and search strings used: Lou gehrigs disease, beginnign of lou gehrigs disease, ALS

Date: Febuary 18, 2008
Hit 1: prospector.coalliance.org
Relevance: 1

Date:Febuary 23, 2008
Hit 2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig
Relevance: 4

Date: Febuary 23, 2008
Hit 2: time.com/time/searchresults?D=Lou+Gehrigs
Relevance: 3

ENG 112 - Week 6

So I have found at least one really great website. The website I feel will add a lot of great things to my research. That site was Lou Gehrigs Disease - Symptoms, treatments, and preventions.

Resources searched: Google, Windows Live,
Keywords and search strings used: Lou gehrigs disease treatments, first case of lou gehrigs diseases

Date: March 4, 2008
Hit 1: woodtv.com/global/story.asp?s=123050
Relevance: 5

Date: March 4, 2008
Hit 2 :healthscout.com/ency/68/53/main.html
Relevance: 10

Date: March 2, 2008
Hit 3: ninds.nih.gov/index.htm
Relevance: 10

I have also been searching in books at the library and I have received the book that I requested a bit ago from the Aurora Library. The title of the book is Lou Gehrigs Disease written by Melissa Abramovitz.