- The information you are more likely to find in a book, is a larger and informative collection of data
about a topic.
- A book is a good source to use for a research paper, because a book is both credible, reliable, and dependable.
- You can use this source by utilizing the background information books, give you by using it to support the main and complex concepts.
Blog Post:
- The information you are more likely to find in a blog post, is almost opinionated beliefs, or theories.
- A blog post is not a good source to use for a paper, because they do not provide substantial evidence behind their claim. Most of the information in a blog post are mostly non-factual.
- Unless the author is a credible, or prized expert in the field that is in discussion; then not much can be used in a blog post for a research paper.
Scholarly Journal Article:
- The Information you are most likely to find in a Scholarly Journal Article is detailed and more informative.
- This is a perfect source for one to use in a research paper, these types or sources are peer-reviewed many times, and they are also heavily reviewed by many. Usually the authors of these are very intelligible people.
- You utilize this source in many ways these types of writings give way to a very intense and detailed access of information. You can use this source in many ways.
Good job.
ReplyDeleteI do want to point out that, in regard to blog posts, you hit the nail on the head on #3. A blog post can be a good source to use if the author is an expert in the field who is posting reports about stuff that is happening now. So, for example, for library school, I cited blog posts written by a library director about the way his library was dealing with increasing popularity of e-books -- a topic that is too new for there to be many peer-reviewed journal articles published yet. But to use those blog posts, I had to evaluate the author and the type of information provided (facts, not opinion, balanced accounts of events, not biased).
But most of the time when you evaluate the author and content of a blog post, there's a good chance that it will have the problems you list in #2!