What is the hardest thing about finding info & doing research on a topic for you personally? Did this Library Research course help? In what ways? What couold be more helpful?

Doing research is usually pretty easy for me. At least I thought it was until I found out that the way I was doing my research was “wrong”. I found out that my favorite search engine, Google, is not as good a tool as I thought it was. I’ve learned about another source on Google, however, called Google Scholars and that’s a good way to look up information that is reliable instead of millions and millions of pages that could be just phony sites. The Library Research  course actually helped me a great deal. When learning about different ways to look up sources in the medical field and different medical websites that was a great help for my Health Disparities class as well. I learned about how I can look up books in the library as well from the internet. Another really important thing I learned was about plagiarism. I did not know all of the different types there were! I know now that I have to be really , really careful in order to avoid it. I’ve never paid much  attention to it before in my writing, (I’m not saying I’ve been plagiarizing my whole educational career) It’s just something that I didn’t think to look at as much. I thought it was okay to “summarize” other works by mentioning them but not giving them proper citations. In school, we have to write a lot of essays and usually only cite people when we quote them but after this class I know I can cite people for the ideas they have if I’m going to use them in my paper. This class will really help me in my future with college essays and I’m thankful to have had the chance to be in it.

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Thank you! <3

"Since everything is on the internet, I don't need books. . .right?"

WRONG!
The internet may be a great advance in technology, however it is not always as reliable as some people make it out to be. There are hundreds of billions of pages out there and it's hard to say if it's even a credible source for information. Sure there are good websites. A few that I've recentely learned about for Medical stuff is Medline Plus and The New York Times Health. These are credible sources. But the majority of websites aren't that reliable. I used to use Google for E V E R Y T H I N G until I learned that it wasn't as good a search engine as I thought it was. I never actually payed attention to the number of results that actually came up when i typed in something I was looking up. There are litterally millions of results for one word! How in the world can anyone choose what's true and what's fake on the internet with millions of results!?!?
Books are books for a reason. They don't just get published for being a bunch of balogna! Well informational and educational text doesn't anyways. Make believe and books for fun of course are made up :)
I just think there's something better about a book to get information than the internet. I do rely on the internet more often than not just because of the access I have to the internet is better than the access I have to books, but if I had to choose it would be books. I'd feel 100% sure about my information.

There's something just so... classy about a book versus the computer. (if that makes any sense lol) I like them 10x better.
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