Deadline #4 HW #1 Reading Reflection

This week's readings helped me know how to find sources with online library catalogs, evaluating sources, how to read my sources. Chapter 5 Section A is about searching sources with online library catalogs. Online catalogs help locate books, journals, documents, video, and much more. It taught me what I search by, such as author, title, word, or publisher. I can also find sources by call number from the Library of Congress Classification System and Dewey Decimal Classification System. I really liked Chapter 9 because it showed me how to evaluate sources through a series of questions. I should look for revelance, evidence, author, publisher, timeliness, and comprehensiveness. Through these factors, I can easly determine if the source is legitimate for my research question. Chapter 8 was about reading my sources critically. Reading critically is different than evaluating because it is about questioning everything about the source. I learned how to develop a preliminary thesis statement on page 111. You have to brainstorm a response to your research question and refine it to a thesis statement. In addition, while reading, you should use important strategies to understand the source, such as identify key ideas. The websites were useful because it gave helpful information on editing and improving papers and workshops for peer reviews. It also gave links for helpful hints, such as to increase the detail and context of simple sentences. The readings are going to help with this week's work by helping me complete homework six and my continued research on my topic.