Preston Allen
Chapter 16 Reading Review
English 121
Chapter 16 was about finding and
evaluating sources. I really like this chapter because it taught me a lot. It
showed me that there was a difference in types of research. Research like
magazines, newspapers, journals, and books and even electronic databases. Now I
knew these were always to research something but for some reason that didn’t
really hit me that they were that different from each other. I think the best
way to get information is from databases due to the fact they give you a
citation at the very end of each article. I’m very lazy person and I really
like this fact. This chapter gave me a lot of exercises to do and I actually
did some in my brain. It taught me how to properly enter a URL and what URL
means. I did not know what URL meant but now I know it means uniform resource
locator. I learned more about keyword searches and how to properly write them
out and learn new strategic ways to analyze what I really want to search. I
learned what a subject search was and it helped me quite a bit. I wish I was
taught more of this in high school because when I’m learning more from a
textbook I did in all my high school career I think that there is a flaw in the
public schooling system at that point. I never knew about evaluating sources I
mean I knew how to tell if a site was credible or not but never really knew how
to evaluate one until now. I learned more about biases and can actually connect
that to mass media today. It wasn’t a very long chapter but it really helped me
out a lot.
So being a student in college I have
to give an educated response. I believe that this chapter is excellent for
anyone who is trying to learn how to research something. It has timely a lot of
new things that I haven’t learned before. I think this is a great learning tool
and I believe that this book is really a great guide for doing almost anything
you want to do in writing. It helped me discover if resources comprehensive, the
sources current, if the source is objective, if the source is accurate, and if
the source is authoritative. It simply helped me learn (which is all you could
ask for in a class, same goes for a lesson).
I believe that this book should be a must-read for anyone who is trying
to learn how to write well. It is definitely helping me quite a bit.
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