Chapter 5 in this book focuses on the concept of finding and evaluating research sources. You can use analytical skills when locating, evaluation, and using sources you have picked for your project. When you, as a researcher, is trying to pick sources you must ask yourself a few questions.
1) What is being talked about?
2) How it is being discussed
3) What the different positions are
A good thing to use when picking research is the metaphor “the iceberg of research”. It means that you will do tons of research when preparing a research project. You will get so much research you will only be able to use a small fraction of the total amount that you get. This is where the iceberg metaphor comes into play. See, the audience will on see a small portion of your research (your final product), just like a passer by can only see a small portion of an iceberg, even though it is a very large thing. The first step in research is finding the best search terms. These will be different types for the different medians you are using (websites, books, magazines).
I took two main things away from this chapter: primary and secondary sources and writing an annotated bibliography.
A primary source are original texts that you will include in your project. These can range from speeches, historical documents, films, etc. Secondary sources are sources that provide commentary to your primary material. These can include scholarly articles, popular commentaries, or survey data.
As you finish you research , you are going to need to make a annotated bibliography. This is simply a list of the sources you used during research that gives you informational notes about what is included in each source listed.
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