Thursday, September 9, 2010

Maybe this will help me find the needle

I do have to say that Wadsworth Chapter 3 was very helpful in giving me ideas about how to narrow down research topics and forming a research proposal. Chapter 4 in the Wadsworth text was full of helpful websites and other helpful search ideas which will be really nice to go back and look at as I am doing research. This chapter also did a really good job of differentiating between the different research resources and how to determine if they are reliable. After reading this chapter though it definitely got me a little worried with thinking about how hard it's going to be to actually filter out the quality research or needles that I want to use in my paper from the massive amount of possible articles or books aka the haystack. This is where I hope that Wadsworth will really come in handy in not just finding the haystack but, actually sifting through the haystack. Only time will tell if that will be the case.

2 comments:

  1. I understand how you feel. I might have the same problem when it gets to that point. I hope that I can find my way out of that mess though.

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  2. Be sure to come our library session prepared to ask questions related to your concerns.

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