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Chapter 5 Envision

When you begin to research your topic for a paper the first thing you do is type in your topic into Google and sift through all the articles and pages that come up for your topic but are any of these web pages really reliable? Some of them may seem legitimate and have good information but they are not necessarily a good source of information. And the web is not the only source of information out there either. There are books, surveys, journals, and historical texts that all have good information about your topic and all should be utilized to draw your information from.

When researching for a topic you need to gather as much information as possible for your paper. Not all of this information will make the final cut but the more you have the more quality information you will have that will make the page. There are numerous places to find information but you have to be careful while choosing the magazine or article that you will ultimately draw your information from. To determine whether the source you have chosen is credible or not just look at it and see what they are trying to accomplish. Does this magazine or article have a lot of ads in it or is it trying to persuade you to think one way or another? If the sites main goal is something other than general education of a topic or anything close to it, that article is probably not very reliable. Also check to see where the article got its information from and who the author is. All of this can tell you whether the information you are receiving is good or not.

During this process don’t forget to write all of the necessary information down for your works cited page. You should be keeping track of this in your research log so that you don’t have to dive through the internet trying to pull up the sites information up for the siting. This will make the final process of your paper a lot easier.