What is the hardest thing about finding information and doing research on a topic for you personally? Did this Library Research course help? In what ways did this course help you? (Or if the course didn't help, why not? What would have been more helpful and/or useful to you?

The hardest think about finding information on a topic is knowing if something is a 100% credible to use because I don't want to use the wrong information in my paper. But to resolve that issue, I consider the site I got the information from or I just go on a database. Also, it's extremely hard when information that not even about my topic is given. These are the things that are hard for me when looking up information over the internet, but books aren't usually a problem. The hard thing about doing researching about a topic is that later on you come to find out that it's not the topic that you thought you were interested in, and then it would be too late to change it. The Library Research class helped a lot in the areas of defining and identifying what plagiarism is what it looks like, so we don't make the mistake to plagiarize. However, some of the things that the course talked about didn't really help because I already knew about it. For example, I don't think learning how to look up information in a book or making up search terms didn't really need to be taught. This didn't seem really useful because a lot of students had to do research papers and had to use internet and book resources to look up information. I think something that could've been addressed in this course is maybe something that students don't really learn how to do in high school, but I'm not really sure what that could be.

Comment on the following statement: "Since everything is on the internet, I don't need books....right?"

     I don’t agree with this statement because people need to know how to utilize book resources, and realize that books are just as important as internet resources. It's important that people not only do research on the internet but with books because later in their academic career, they are going to have to get a variety of sources which include book sources. If people just use the internet as a resource, they're just limiting themselves from information that might not be on the internet but can be found in a book. I find it helpful to use a book resource than using an internet resource because the author’s information is right there within the book, so there isn’t extra information to look up about the author. Therefore, I can see if the author is a reliable source to get information from. In a book, one could see the information that the author used, which is useful to refer to. Sometime one can't really tell if the information on the website is credible, or the type of sources that the author got it from. If people constantly use internet resources, they won’t know how to use a book to find information. For example, they probably won't know the simple ways to look for information like using the index or table of contents. I find it as helpful to use a book resource as it is to use an internet resource, but I think the uses between them should be balance so one isn’t being used more than the other. That way, one can have experience using both.