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When I quickly looked over this chapter last Thursday, my first thought was, "Wait, that's it?!" The chapter is literally only 6 pages long. It's probably the shortest chapter in the book.
Although the chapter is short, I found myself taking the whole weekend to read it because I was so busy getting ready for Halloween. After all the Halloween festivities, I started to get sick. I'm still a bit under the weather, but getting over it.
Anyway, back to the response. I did finally finish reading the chapter, which took practically no time at all. The first part of the chapter talks about places to find information, such as libraries, databases, and the internet. At this point in my education, I'd say it's no challenge for me to know where or how to get information. Information is available everywhere these days. All the same, I think this part of the chapter could be beneficial to someone who is not sure how to find sources for his or her research paper.
Things really got interesting in the second half of this chapter, which talks about questions to ask yourself to evaluate sources when you're doing research. Professionally, I think these questions will be helpful for me to ask myself when researching. The questions are used to evaluate the quality of sources. I think it will really help me if I make sure to think about if the information I find is authoritative, accurate, objective, current, and comprehensive. In other words, I need to find out if the author of the source is an expert or not, and if the information is factual, not altered by biases, up-to-date, and covers the subject in sufficient depth.
Basically, this chapter is short, but sweet. Sort of. When I say, "sweet", I mean thought-provoking. It got me thinking about how, because there is so much information out there, I need to take time to evaluate the quality of information I find, in order to use the best quality sources for my papers.
Written by Hayley Leach
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