Scholarly
books would be a great source for a research project. They are reliable sources
that are written by scholars for scholars or those that are interested in
learning more about a subject. The only downside of using this type of source
is that it takes a long time to get a book released. I knew this before the
class but when I was working on our library ethnography project I realized that
when coming up with research topics that I need to keep in mind how long it
takes before reliable scholarly works to study from are released.
Popular
magazines though are great for gossip, celebrity information, or in my case
running or HGTV, they are not really reliable for a research paper. A lot of
popular magazines are focused towards certain groups or particular opinions.
Popular magazines may be great but probably not the most reliable.
Newspapers
are not something that I would use for a research project. Though there are informative,
they also give just the basics. Newspapers from what I have learned do go
through some form of fact checking in their articles, but not as much as a
scholarly work or encyclopedia.
Government
documents would be a great source of information for a research project. The
example in class was a book about the economy with the year’s information.
Government documents would be useful if writing a paper or doing some type of
research project. I did some further research on this type of document. I found
that Government documents come in the form of books, pamphlets, posters,
periodicals, and online databases.
Encyclopedias
are another great source of information in doing a research paper or project. They
provide accurate information that has gone through fact checking processes over
and over again. I did learn in class though that, researchers must be careful
to have the latest edition. Even going from one edition to the next, some of
the information changes could be drastic.
Scholarly
journal articles- Like I mentioned earlier, scholarly works are written by
scholars for scholars. The difference being journal articles are usually ten to
thirty pages. I find that scholarly journals are easier to get information from
because they go into details without having to search through hundreds of pages
of information.
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That was real good and informative. I can tell you know a lot about what is expected in this class and how to get good information for your research project. You gave a lot of detail about each source and I can also tell you have been listening in class. (50 words)
ReplyDeleteI agree with Caleb. The information you have posted is very helpful in determining what type of information would be best to use for a research topic. Reading over your blog post has givin me a better understanding on how to use each information source to my best ability while researching for my topic.
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