Two Chapters, Really?

Chapters six and seven could have been combined into one chapter but the authors decided that reading and evaluating your resources should be done separately. Why? I don't have a clue. When I read something I will usually try to analyze it at the same time. Personally it saves me time and effort. I guess they needed to point out that one should look into the context of what they are reading instead of just taking it as the truth because it's in a book or journal. I also don't summarize each one of my resources but instead I will summarize the entire idea at the end of a paper. Paraphrasing is another concept that I never really feel comfortable about doing. It always seems like direct quotes are a better way to go since most of what we read is by professional writers and I never seem to be able to word an idea as eloquently as they already have and going back to chapter eight if I use direct quotes and cite my sources there is no fear of infringing on copyrights or being accused of plagiarism.

Verifying your data is very important especially with any data found on the internet. Many of the other points in the chapter seem like common sense to me like checking the validity of your resources. Isn't that the point of looking at several different resources so you can cross reference them? I've never felt that there was a perfect cookie-cutter method to doing research and that it is more dependent upon the individual and their personal comfort level with the materials they are working with. As you may be able to tell I don't place much merit on the book's stringent method of doing research and would have liked to have seen more flexibility and different suggestions to come up with the same results.