Thursday, October 17, 2013

RESEARCH..Finding something about "everything"

Research, trying to find out all you can about something.   There are so many places one can look. My experiences are so minimal at best.  In researching for this second paper, I tryed the world wide web first, of course, easier and more simplified it seemed but very limited.

The Kent library was much more extensive and a learned some from just searching it. I feel that it should be a course of its own. I remember going to a library and looking up an index card and going to shelves and "hoping" that the book was put back into the "right place".


I realize now that the search methods are so extensive that it makes that system seem like child's play.
In researching for this paper I found most of my sources in the magazine National Geographic.
 
I believe however that I did not submit my paper on Mr. Sentell's requirements. After reviewing the assignment over again, I feel like I wrote a good paper but I don't feel I analysed the information. I consumed it and wrote it but didn't feel like I made comparisons in an analytic form.
 
Research and the tutorials make it possible and I am discovering new ways and methods every day. I am learning and have learned a lot of techniques from several of you. Reading your blogs give me ideas, tips and new information so I feel that they are research in itself.
 
So I can definitely put word of mouth, or in this case blogs, a vital source of research and information.
 
I feel I need a great deal more research on "research".
 


 
 

3 comments:

  1. and just a note after reading this I spelled tried tryed.. Really Vicki?? and I learned not a learned..proofreading a second time imperative...

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  2. Vicki,
    I am not sure what year you are at SEMO but, UI100 covers some great topics for first year students specific towards SEMO. I have learned a great deal in this course for my studies at SEMO. It does take one week to cover Kent Library under Searchpath which is a required reading in ENG100. I myself have spelling goofs that must be addressed. I really get in trouble when I am in my "writing mode" and type words with similar sounds but different meanings. I do that a lot that I have to focus on. Luckily for me, my micro soft suite I had to buy last year with the newer version of Microsoft does assist me in this. Another course I took last year that may also help you is my computer literacy course. It is labeled something different at SEMO, but it was a great course to take to assist me in my scholastic career. Good luck.

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