Sunday, July 10, 2011

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.

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