by Hannah Ernst

Table of Contents What I Already Know What Do I Want to Know? The Story of My Search My Search Results My Growth as a Researcher My Works Cited

What I Already Know Can be fixed through surgery Can go blind eventually Have a friend with Glaucoma Buildup of fluid pressure in the eye

What Do I Want To Know? What is glaucoma? Is it painful? What types of treatments are there? Are there a lot of people with glaucoma?

Is it hereditary, if not how is it contracted? What are the effects on society? Is it curable? How do canes help the blind?

How are the seeing eye dogs trained so well? What is taught at the blind schools? What types of things are done differently when someone is blind? What kind of help is there for the blind?

The Story of My Search Picked a topic and started researching Found different headings to search for Learned to use in encyclopedia for information Learned to use power library

Came up with questions to research How to use in-text citations Organized my paper and started typing Formatted my Works Cited

Turned in rough draft and had it peer edited Worked on final draft Started and finished powerpoint

My Search Results Not painful in the beginning stages, need checkups regularly, Cause is unknown. Medication and surgery are treatments Many people with glaucoma Certain people that contract it

Expensive on the annual budget Scientists are trying to perfect a breakthrough Life is completely different when someone is blind Senses are extremely important to the blind

Dogs go to homes and schools to be trained Blind learn to use Braille, canes, and dogs Blind learn differently and do tasks differently

My Growth as a Researcher Format MLA style papers well Better with parenthetical documentation Use SIRS as a research site

Know how to look for information Know to use easybib.com to site my sources Organize my paper better

My Works Cited Anderson, Slade. "What's It Like Being Blind?." New Youth Connections. June 1993: 8. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 14 May "Blindness." Compton's by Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Web. 13 May "Braille." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 09 May 2013.

“Causes of Blindness” The New Book of Knowledge. Danbury, CT: Scholastic Library Pub., Print. Colombraro, Rosemarie. "Raising Hope." Boys' Life. Jan. 2004: SIRS Discoverer. Web. 08 May “Don't Lose Sight of Glaucoma.” National Eye Institute (Health and Human Services Department). 1995: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 07 May 2013.

Dreher, Nancy. "Laser Surgery: The "Invisible" Blade." Current Health 2. April 1996: SIRS Discoverer. Web. 08 May "Glaucoma Facts and Stats." Glaucoma Research Foundation. n.pag., 22 Apr Web. 14 May 2013.