Not that I've been keeping up with my existing blogs particularly well. My bentos have been few and far between and frankly, I'm just up to my eyeballs in research.
It was recently suggested to me that one of the original uses for a blog was to collect and organize research and informational resources. One of my preferred methods of building up the background literature for a research paper has always been the annotated bibliography (because how the heck else am I going to remember which thing was in which article by the time I've read 10, 20, 50 on variations of the same topic?). While I'm hardly going to put my actual research project out into the wilds until it's, well, done, I am also of the "can't stop the signal" school of thought when it comes to making information easily available and accessible. Thus begins this blog, or at least the basics of it.
My thought is that I'm going to go through the assorted articles I've been compiling on the subject of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health and health disparities, which are already at least broadly collected in categories, and write entries that give the citation info and what I think is particularly useful or noteworthy about each article, chapter, book, etc. The citations will be in APA format, since that's what we nurses tend to use. The descriptions will probably be a bit less formal, partly so that the usefulness is clear to non-academic types who may stumble across these entries.
This is, of course, assuming that I'm not actually biting off more than I can chew. I'm viewing this as something that will help me organize all of this information more effectively, but that may turn out not to be the case. We shall see.
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