When I picked my topic I was positive that finding information on new medical discoveries would be easy. However, after writing this blog for the past few months finding a blogging community of writers with a similar topic has been difficult. This constant search for interesting articles has me in a waiting game until the next big discovery.
One reason may be because research takes time, not every day are new groundbreaking discoveries being made. So finding interesting, relative, and creditable articles are often one in a dozen. I would declare my blog as an island topic. Sure I have some neighboring writers in the newspapers but they write on a much larger scale when it comes to a particular topic.
However, I myself have had to broaden my range of sources and include articles and online databases for my final analysis paper.
Scientific American has a blogging community but, I have found it difficult to find information that caught my attention. The New York Times however has had numerous articles that I have used as sources in my blog this semester. News stations such as BBC and ABC have had many amazing stories covered in their papers such as the quadruple amputee that I covered as well earlier this semester. Im still in the search to find a blog similar to mine and hope to include that as well in my paper.
I like your analogy that you're an "island"--that fits and I'm sure I'm going to "borrow" that for future classes. I agree that sometimes people might be writing on discoveries, like you are, but that there has got to be an element of intrigue or interest to make a grander connection.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found some sources, though. Continue to hunt them down. Here's one of my favorites for science writing: Neil deGrasse Tyson, who works for the Hayden Planitarium. He's brilliant, entertaining, and really a wonderful potential source. And he has a blog! http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read
But then again, it all depends on whether his writing connects with your ideas of discoveries. He's a big space/science guy, and you're focusing mostly on medicine...