For me personally, finding information on a research topic can simple but sometimes it can be hard. It basically depends on the topic. If the topic is something that is usually searched, like World War II it can be simple, but if it is about something less popular like the mentality of chimps, it can be a bit difficult. To find information on a topic can be easy, but it should be the information that you want. If I am writing about the technology of World War II and I get information on the clothing of the era, then I can’t use it because it is irrelevant to my topic. The information should also be reliable because if you receive information that is not real like saying that touch screen devices were used in the war for communication and you incorporate that into your paper, then the paper is useless because that piece of information is false and ruins your argument. The class was really entertaining, because we had some funny topics to research, and how we had to find out the story behind the story was fun because we got to critique the sites to see if the information they presented was reliable. I received a lot of information from the class. I picked up that even if the website look reliable doesn’t make it reliable, you often have to check several sites and if the information is the same on multiple sites then the information is likely to be true.
