Week 4 Assignment

Personally finding information and doing research for me is moderately hard. There are topics that are discussed a lot, so finding information would be easy for them. But then there are those other topics and ideas that are harder to find information about. So when looking for research it depends on the topic just because there is a lot of information people already know and is on the computer. Also you don’t really know if the information on the websites are reliable so its hard to tell. The only reliable thing I would really think of getting information from is books. The internet to me can change so quickly in a day, people can just put in information and say its true. When I do research I make sure all my sources are correct and that they are credible. Overall I would probably just use books and libraries as my source of finding information. The internet is great but I wouldn’t use it unless I absolutely have to.

This computer research class helped me to somewhat of a point. We didn’t really do much on the research aspect of it. I think the main point of it was plagiarism. When my assignment was a zero because of plagiarism that was probably the first time I’ve had it. But this course did help me realize that plagiarism is taken very seriously, whether your just doing an essay or researching things. This course also helped me realize that there are websites that help you narrow down your search. So if I need to research a topic or find information there are certain websites I could go to. 

Blog #3

“Since everything is on the internet, I don’t need books…right?” Wrong. Books can be very useful for many things. Also they have much information that you can’t find on the internet or any other places. The internet is not very reliable; people could just be posting random untrue things on it. The information could be false or made up, the sources as well are not very reliable. With books you cannot lie about the sources or what the information is, it is more credible, and it is entertaining with many different genres.

There are many websites and authors on the internet; you can’t seem to keep track of them all just because everyone has access to it that has a computer. For all you know people could be making up information and just saying that it’s correct. Or they could be using random sources that are probably not even reliable to begin with. So unless the primary information came out of a book, most of it is more than likely to be false.

Credibility is very important when writing something. You want to know that the author knows what he is talking about as you read his work. When talking about research, logistics, or just information on something; if there are no sources cited then there is less credibility and its harder to rely on that work to use for a paper or essay.

Books don’t just supply us with information, they provide entertainment. Books have been around for a long time, and whether we are using them to get information, or to read a story they have a purpose. But in short not most things are not on the internet, you would need to look for books about things for credible and reliable information.