Summary
For every assignment, you will likely need to use a variety of sources to identify the best information:
- Encyclopedias and books provide overviews of topics, from general to the very specific.
- Magazines and newspapers are geared to the general public.
- Trade or professional journals cover developments in a field, such as banking or hotel management.
- Scholarly journals publish academic research
- Web sites are a veritable fountain of information, buy you have to consider their accuracy and reliability.
In this section of Research 101, you have learned:
- To identify the types of information sources that are available for a topic
- How information is created, disseminated and used
- To select appropriate types of information sources for your assignment, including books, scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals, newspapers and Internet sites.
- To differentiate between scholarly, popular and professional periodicals.
You are ready to move on to the next unit of Research 101, Searching.
