If I were assigned a research paper now I feel as I would have more confidence and better luck with my research. Through this tutorial I was shown the many stages in research, some stages that I didn't even know existed until now. I defiantly would feel more comfortable in going and talking to the librarians about a paper or topic I need help gathering information on and I will most certainly use the library web databases. They are full of information and hundreds of articles, books, journals, ect. that I could use for my classes.
I already knew how to manly find sources online and the citing parts of research. Through the summer course and through high school I learned that you need to have a good sense on background information for your topic along with supporting information on it. What I feel I knew but never really took advantages on would be all of the sources that are there for us to use and how little I have used them all in the past.
Three things I did not know until the tutorial:
1: The Library database-I know we went over how to use it in the summer but I feel after going into details about it on this site I have a better idea of its use.
2:Citing Journals/Articles-it explained more on telling the difference between the two.
3: The background knowledge of topics before starting actual research.
Three things I knew before tutorial:
1:The summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting for sources.
2:How to properly cite my sources.
3:Using Date bases, books, journals ect. to find information.
I feel so much better about research assignments too!
ReplyDeleteI also feel that if i too was given a research paper I would have more confidence with my research and paper
ReplyDeleteI can relate, I feel soo much better about having to go and do some research! Knowing about the citation and the quoting are two of the things that where not new to me as well!
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