Choosing the Proper Sources
Now that you have successfully defined your topic, you are ready to begin gathering information.
You may have already been looking in encyclopedias, magazines or Web sites to explore your topic, but at this point you need to find more information to help answer your research question.
After completing this section, you will be able to:
- Identify types of information sources available
- Demonstrate how information is created, disseminated and used
- Select appropriate types of information sources for your assignment, including books, scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals, newspapers and Internet sites.
- Differentiate between scholarly, popular and professional periodicals.
