Blog Post #4

The hardest thing about finding information is finding really specific information because if you are looking for really specific information then you probably can only find it in one place. If you can only find that specific information in one place then the question becomes is that one source reliable? Now that is something that I have problems with on every research project I have whether or not the sources I find are reliable or not. This is where this Library Research class helped me to find what sources are really reliable and what sources are not. Also, this class also showed me what the true nature of Google which takes money from people to bring their hits up and it does not really show all hits that it says it found. Knowing this about Google will affect the way I search for information on Google because the information that shows up is biased in the sense that Google does not look for the best information that goes with your search item but actually gets paid by the companies or websites to bring their items up. Another piece of useful information brought to be by this class is when we spoke about plagiarism. Now I had an idea about what plagiarism was but I didn’t know much can go wrong with citing sources. The things that I considered as not plagiarism were actually plagiarism such as summarizing a piece, saying where it came from and nothing else. In actuality you need to provide a works citied page, internal citation and mention the piece. In the end this class helped me prepare for future research projects and readied me for college.