What I learned about scholarly research!

 Good day Lombrices!

Hope all is well with you all! Can you all believe Thanksgiving is nest week already? Time sure does pass by fast! 

    Yesterday we went to the library for my Card 101 class and learned about trustworthy research, including scholarly research! 

It's pretty easy to just google questions and click on the first website that comes up, correct? We all do it, don't lie to me. Well, did you know that in order to figure out if a website or article is credible you need to run it through a check list? I'm not going to go through it all, but the main points that really stuck out to me was to make sure you can find the publisher's name! Not that a website without a publisher's name isn't useful, but having a name makes it a little more credible! Also, checking to see if a scholar journal is credible also includes seeing if the information was peer reviewed! Very interesting, right? These are the kinds of things that I didn't know about when it came to research! 

Now, not to say you should stop using Wikipedia for research, (because trust me, when have we not used Wikipedia?) but finding more reliable sources will definitely help you and benefit you in the future! I'm so glad I learned a little more about research! 

I hope you all have a great night! 

-Mayra :)


 

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