Question 4 July 12

The hardest thing about finding information and doing research on a topic for me is looking on Google. I never know what to type into the search box. When ever I put something to search a lot of unrelated topics come up. It makes me frustrated when what I am looking for doesn’t come up. I’ve learned before some tricks that you could search using and. For example if I am looking for teenagers doing drugs I could look up, teenagers and drugs, and better results may come up. I feel like the library research class did help me. I learned that even though it shows there are 6,001,234 results found on a topic not all of the results really come up. I also learned how to be able to tell the difference between a reliable and non-reliable website to use when doing a research paper. I also learned a lot about plagiarism. I did not know before that even though you paraphrase, the author and page still need to be cited. I also learned that common knowledge does not need to be cited. I feel that what I learned in the library research class will come in handy to me when I am writing a research paper. I will be able to incorporate what I learned into my paper and not have to worry about getting in trouble for plagiarism.

I would like to thank Ms. Moser for teaching the Library Research class and teaching me new things I never would have learned. I know that everything we learned in the class would come in handy for me in the future.