I found our session in the library on Monday to be very helpful and beneficial to my research paper. By learning about the difference between popular and scholarly sources I realized that I need to find more scholarly articles for my research topic. I felt as if it may be difficult to find scholarly articles about a more recent topic like mine, an issue that has really become popular in recent years, but the session taught me that you can find articles that are only somewhat related to your topic, rather than directly about it.
Another method I liked was the idea of searching more broadly about your topic. This could help me if I exhaust all of the sources that come up when I search directly about my topic. It is also good because it could be beneficial in finding even more evidence for my argument. This broader search will also help to bring more people into the “conversation.” It is almost always better to at least look at more people’s views and arguments about your topic or a related topic.
One of the things I found most helpful about our session was the comparison of sources to actors. You need a combination of superstar A-List celebrities and career actors in a movie, just like you need a combination of scholarly and popular sources in your argument. This helped show me that having all popular sources or all scholarly sources is not a good way to argue, the balance of both is necessary to create the best possible argument. Overall I found this session to be very beneficial in furthering my learning about writing research papers and finding reliable and beneficial sources.
Another method I liked was the idea of searching more broadly about your topic. This could help me if I exhaust all of the sources that come up when I search directly about my topic. It is also good because it could be beneficial in finding even more evidence for my argument. This broader search will also help to bring more people into the “conversation.” It is almost always better to at least look at more people’s views and arguments about your topic or a related topic.
One of the things I found most helpful about our session was the comparison of sources to actors. You need a combination of superstar A-List celebrities and career actors in a movie, just like you need a combination of scholarly and popular sources in your argument. This helped show me that having all popular sources or all scholarly sources is not a good way to argue, the balance of both is necessary to create the best possible argument. Overall I found this session to be very beneficial in furthering my learning about writing research papers and finding reliable and beneficial sources.