EIR09

18January2010

Practical 10
EIR Closure
Activity 3

Blog Reflection:
1. Using your favourite metaphor, describe the most important lesson that you had learnt in your EIR journey.
2. Write a paragraph summarizing your findings on your research topic.


Reflection 1
Using your favourite metaphor, describe the most important lesson that you had learnt in your EIR journey.

My metaphor I am using is "bridge over troubled waters". It means "solution to a problem". I had learnt things which I did not know during this EIR journey. Things like the search strategy to enter in the search box which I did not know there is such strategy, the different search engines like Mamma.com and Google Scholar. Lastly, knowing the different evaluation criteria which will help me to know whether the website I had chosen is reliable, relevant and having enough information. Sometimes when I am searching something in Google, I could not get the correct search and ended up with wrong results or perhaps I have used wrong method of searching. Of course I do get correct search results sometimes. Using Google Search most of the time, my internet resources will be limited as normally it will give me websites or informative source. Through this EIR journey, I learnt these new things (search strategy, search engines evaluation criteria) which are like solutions to my problems. I learnt the correct method of researching for information. It helps me to save time.Besides that I am able to collect more reliable and relevant information of different internet resources from different types of search engines.


Reflection 2
Write a paragraph summarizing your findings on your research topic.

Eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life-threatening effects on both females or males. It involves using food to deal with these problems. Some teenagers may know the existing problem just that they do not take it seriously, doing nothing to their health. Most of the teenagers are actually not aware about eating disorders and doing harm to their bodies with their mind focusing on looking good. The problem lies in their own interpretation of looking good and the method the teenagers used to achieve their desired weight. Therefore, it creates these three main types of eating disorders - Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binger Eating Disorder. I think that sometimes the teenager began this behaviour is also to try to fix other problems. They began doing one of the eating disorders as they felt terribly out of control either in their personal life or outside environment example having family problems, stress from schoolwork, social problems like being teased about their appearance. I think it is important to let teenagers or perhaps everyone to know how to keep fit in their body, correct their thinking and build up their low self esteem. Not just keep focusing on their looks and body image. Perfect body is not equal to skinny/thin body.

Labels: Practical 10 and EIR closure

posted by Kai'en @ 11:04 PM