When choosing sources for a research topic, the most important factor of a quality source is depth and reliability. That is the key to a strong, well-written, argument. Many times, one can find themselves fishing through an array of sources, not knowing which ones to use. A student may find a passage in a book or article that perfectly fits the idea of their research, and they think they have struck gold. They sit down, ready to write their masterpiece. They come to that point in their paper
considers his options. He could choose to take the exam using his real name and receive a performance grade based on his knowledge of the tough material the exam would ask. Or, his second option: use a false identity, get the questions, go out to reliable sources and ask for answers, and then post answers to the exam under his real name. The student opted for the second option. He got the test questions, went to professors, searched online, and found as many of the answers as he could. He posted
dialogue between blacks and whites about slavery and freedom. Some slave narratives were crafted to enlighten white readers about the realities of slavery as an institution and the humanity of black people. Today, slave narratives are one of the few reliable sources for the study of slave lives. Many female slave narratives indicated that gender was an important factor in determining the fate of a slave even though slave owners often did not differentiate between genders in the assigning of tasks. Thus
looking at our usual sources for truth. Authority, which is churches, parents, and schools, he says, are not reliable sources for truth because time shows we all die, and that we are eventually proved wrong, much in the same way the accepted truths of science have changed dramatically over the course of history. Also, he considers the generally excepted view that our senses dependably report the absolute nature of reality. Simiar to authority, Descartes discards the senses as a source of truth because
Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes People being generalized based on limited and inaccurate information by sources as television, cartoons or even comic books (Tripod). This is a definition that seems to go against many public standards. The above words are the exact definition of stereotypes. Stereotypes as understood from the definition, goes mostly hand in hand with media -- only not the regular meaning of the innocent media we know. Media propaganda is the other form of media that is rather described
Reliable Historical Sources History is the study of the past, of what had really happened and who were involved. To study history itself, it is essential that the source from which the information were taken is factual as well as reliable. It is not acceptable if it contains errors and flaws or mixing the truth with some fictions. This essay will investigate and evaluate a piece of historical evidence
and Finding Reliable Sources Understanding how to properly search for evidence is a skill that takes time to acquire. Identifying the different types of evidence will assist the researcher in locating the proper evidence for evidence based practice (Schmidt & Brown, 2015). Knowing how to search for evidence and applying search strategies will save the researcher time and allow for the researcher to find the most reliable sources (Schmidt & Brown, 2015). Primary and Secondary Sources Primary and
sales? Either way, I feel that anything that has cost my family over seven hundred dollars deserves to be looked in to. When I inquired about what made these particular animals so "unique," I thought I would go right to the closest, most reliable sources that I had. I first asked my daughter, who is seven years old. Her response was that they were "cute" and that they had "cute names." When I asked my wife, she told me that they were "cute," and that they were "soft and cuddly." Now I know
replenished by circulating ground waters, therefore if the fluids are extracted at a sustainable rate, the resource will be available for future generations.Geothermal energy is probably one of the safest and most reliable sources of energy, outside solar energy. It is reliable (the source of heat, the Earth itself, is relatively constant), and hazard, in terms of unwanted waste products or catastrophic accidents, is nonexistent. There are atmospheric emissions from geothermal power plants which
and do research. Although Wikipedia has its positive uses it is not always a reliable source and is best used as a starting point for research. In March 2000 Wikipedia started out as Nupedia.com with a review board of experts. By 2001 less than twenty-four articles were completed. It was then that the creator, Jimmy Wales, and his editor-in-chief, Larry Sanger, decided to make Wikipedia. They created it as an open-source encyclopedia that permitted anyone to create and edit its content. This freedom
Very few reliable sources on Alexander the Great’s reign remain in existence today. Of these sources, the four major ones are histories by Plutarch, Diodorus, Arrian and Quintus Rufus. The earliest of these sources was written in the first century BC, so it is clear to see that the author’s own personal outlook may have influenced by their times and personal experiences in life that may or may not have changed since Alexander was alive since he died about three-hundred BC. In addition to the times
amount of reactivity and heat being produced (Schrock 3). After the reaction is complete, t... ... middle of paper ... ... it is a plan that could very well eliminate all use of fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants are an extremely safe and reliable source of clean energy. As long as protocol on safety is met, then there should be no means for worry. The coal-burning power plants are only killing us slowly; we need to take action now before it is too late. We need to embrace new technology and use
My first source is Huff Post Green, its a news website for all over the world news. Huff post green talks about what need to be done to stop the extinction of wild life tigers. It gives information on how to bring back and double the population of tigers. One of the country that this website talks about the most for the decrease in the tiger population is China, because of the medicine they use from tigers. The main point of this article is getting the plan ready to save the tigers before 2022
knowledge as well as many sources from the booklet provided. The sources that I shall use will come from many categories including primary accounts of soldiers in the trenches, photographs, paintings, propaganda and official government accounts. I will note the uses of the sources including their strengths and weaknesses, their provenance, reliability the importance and usefulness as well as the limitations of their usefulness. In section A, I will look at sources from history textbooks describing
There are many different sources in the literary world; however, not all of them are reliable or credible. When called upon to write, writers should be very careful in choosing a worthy source. Using trustworthy and credible sources can really help one’s writing, but on the other hand, using non-credible sources can greatly harm a written work. Writers must evaluate carefully to avoid using unreliable sources. The best way to evaluate a source is to review the background information, check that it
to victory in the First World War. The sources disagreed more than they agreed, some showed both agreement with this interpretation and disagreement but they mostly disagreed due to reliability of the different sources. So there isn’t sufficient evidence in Sources A to H to support this interpretation. Sources F and G were the only two sources that weren’t written by Haig, that support him being a highly skilled soldier that lead Britain into victory. Source F shows that if Haig ‘refused to fight
essay, I am going to analyse the source material that I have been given. These sources describe the working conditions of children working in textile mills; I am going to conclude if they are reliable or unreliable. The conditions of children working in textile mills during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, were in some mills inhumane but in many mills such as Quarry Bank Mill indications are that the conditions in the mill were good. Source A says that workers were " Well
their sin. And it focused on the freewill of Hester and Pearl returning on their own. I found this source to be really useful but it had a lot of information in it so it was hard to soak it all in so it is helpful taking notes and highlighting key words while reading this article. The word choice was difficult in some paragraphs so I had to look up a lot of words while reading. This article is reliable because it was a peer reviewed journal article and when it referenced to something from a different
retrieval process, memories can be remembered with or without their sources. As research has found, our memories are not labeled or tagged with their origin (Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay 1993). Because of this, our memory has developed a process called source monitoring. This is how we link our memories to the source that they developed from, usually using specific characteristics and general knowledge of the memory. For example, source monitoring includes identifying who told you something, whether
When researching the first step is to do thorough literary research. When looking for research sources the inquiry to think about is, what is the question, hypothesis, or topic are you’re searching? Are you researching a scholarly source which will be founded in experimentation and testing or a subjective source based on less controllable observation; such as human behavior or emotion? To give you a better idea, I will be using an idea I have for a research topic as an example. I will be researching