Response to Reading: Ch. 5 & 6
Chapter 6 goes into great detail regarding the types of research materials we should include in our speech. I think this is one of the most important issues that students deal with in today's world. Due to the emergence of the World Wide Web, and the popularity of user-generated content on it, there is an abundance of information available to us on the net. The sad part of it is that most of the information we come across isn't necessarily reliable or accurate. Therefore, it is vital to evaluate the kinds of resources we use on the internet and the kind of info we are citing in our research.
The best way to counter the negative impact of widely available info is to look at only certain types of websites, and to sift through the data that is given. I like using sites that end in .edu or .org because most of the time university/school sites, as well as organizations, tend to be official and reliable. Also, as was mentioned in the reading, certain websites list academic journals and other informative periodicals that have been written by experts and can be used to support our own points. In any case, I think it is important to have an eye for picking out someone's personal website from geocities.com and distinguishing it from an actual article from ScienceMag.com.
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