Daisy Exercise

This was a fairly troublesome exercise in many ways. I knew roughly what I was looking for, but figuring out exactly what the more or less adjacent fields to my topic are was not always easy. Some of these work excellently as effective subject headings when searching for sources, while others are far too broad to really be helpful. Overall, the exercise did prove useful in focusing the secondary searches during the lit review part of the assignment due this week.

Even though a simple list would  still be my personal preference, thinking about the intersections between the various subjects did prove useful to me while searching for potentially relevant sources. All good searches for material will use many methods, but subject headings within a controlled vocabulary have long been one of the more efficient ways I've found to get a hold of the right sources. I have often had trouble making sure that the headings I was using were necessarily the right ones, and the only ones, however. This type of thinking helps with that, as it can help lead to other useful subjects before other methods are brought in as well.

You'll have to excuse my poor skills with paint-type programs. My drawing skills are even worse, and it would have been charitable to call the original I drew simply 'illegible'. This is simply a copy, just with readable text and (almost) evened out petals.