What is the hardest thing about finding information and doing reserach on a topic for you personally?
I have a hard time finding information that is really specific, like diseases or math geniuses, because it is hard to find the exact answer on an online textbook or just a hard cover book. Normally texts are very vague and broad, never exact to what my question is asking. I would love it if there is a website that can answer every question - only there isn't anything like that.
Did this Library Research course help?
Honestly, Library Research were mostly review for me. I knew a lot about plagiarism, how to cite online texts and hard cover books, and how to Google (or search) things. But I think that Library Research helped me know more in depth about plagiarism. I learned that it is still plagiarism even to re-phrase an author's work without citations because you are still using his/her work. I also never knew that a quote from a famous proverb does not need to be quoted because it is basic knowledge. I thought that even if it is basic knowledge, we must give credit to whoever created that quote. Another thing that was interesting was that song lyrics do not need to be cited. Although it is lyrics or words that a person has created, it does not need to be cited which was very new to me.
In what ways did this course help you? (Of if the course didn't help, why not? What would have been more helpful and/or useful to you?)
This class wasn't as helpful as all my other classes that I have. It was mostly review and slightly in depth with the topics we touched so it wasn't as fascinating and informing. It would have been more helpful if we touched a little on the basics of the topics, because I'm sure many of us already know about plagarism and such, but not deeply into them. If we were given more time or even talk more about certain topics, then class would have been much more interesting and also more educational.
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