Chapter 6 gave plenty of useful information. After reading the chapter, I learned many ways to identify multiple perspectives and sources. While researching your topic, it is important to learn others viewpoint's because not only does it help with the diversity of your research, it also allows you to search more sources for information. The main questions that you need to ask yourself when you are researching a topic are:
1. Who might be knowledgeable about this topic?
2. What organizations address the topic you are researching?
3. What events are hapening related to your topic?
4. How can I find the information I need?
I find these questions to be important because when I begin to research my topic, I never know where to begin or what questions to ask. In the past I have just gone to Google or Yahoo! and used keywords but I have found that many times I get information that I am not looking for. I know that in future reference I will be asking myself these questions in order to research my topics more efficiently.
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colie,
ReplyDeletei like the way you write, you have a very clean style, and i think the reason i like it is because it is almost the opposite of mine's. But you have very good questions to ask before researching, although i'm pretty sure i have seen them somewhere before lol, and i totally agree with the google and yahoo thing, you hardly ever find what you are really looking for and usually end up reading something that has nothing to do with what you want lol. But google is interesting none the less,
well, good conversation, hope to hear from you soon
Hi Colie! These are good places to start and good questions to ask of course. The librarian at SJSU or reference desk a lot of times is also a good place to start. What other sources, besides the internet are you planning on using for this first speech. A variety of sources are required. :)
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