The research process for this essay was complicated and agonizing. I had no idea where to start. As a class, we went to the library and learned how to look for good peer-reviewed articles that were reliable sources for our essay. That helped a little, until I had to do it myself. When I started searching for different articles based on my topic, I was returned with many articles, too many to read in a short amount of time. The key to narrowing down the amount of articles was to use better keywords when searching for articles. At first I used general keywords like obesity and fast food, as they accompanied my essay they brought up many articles and none that interested me enough to read or use in my essay. I started looking for articles the weekend after fall break. I went to the search engine Jenny Dale showed us in class on the Wednesday before fall break. I knew that in order to get good, reliable sourced articles I would have to use very specific keywords. I looked at the outline of my article and went paragraph by paragraph. The first paragraph I actually needed information from would be my fourth paragraph. I knew I wanted to talk about the obesity rate in America and how it related to income. In the search bar I looked up obesity rates and hit the academic article button to ensure I was getting a peer-reviewed article. I scrolled through the different articles that emerged and Perez Rodrigo's article on the current obesity mapping appeared. I clicked on the article, read the summary and realized that it was exactly what I was looking for and decided to use it. For the next two paragraphs I wanted to compare the position of fast food restaurants in relation to the lowest income. .... half of the paper ...... but my argument used both points of view and was also a peer-reviewed article. Some challenges I faced were learning to search for keywords and trying to narrow down the number of items returned. Additionally, another challenge was to review the returned items and choose the ones that worked best and were in English. Some surprise was how many calories are in different meals and how there are so many fast food places and not many healthy food places on the street corner. I hit a dead end trying to figure out how to use each article in depth and how to incorporate it into my article. Overall, I'm happy we had the chance to talk to Jenny Dale from the library because otherwise I don't know how I would have furthered my research process or even found the items I needed that were useful to use.