Chapter six gave plenty of useful information for conducting research. Guideline three went over the value of checking each source for leads to other sources in your topic area. I have found this to be very useful when researching. It is great when your source leads you to another that is just as helpful. The book’s point on carefully evaluating what information you find is very important. There are many times when I have been researching and found my sources are incorrect and biased. Especially with the internet, it is easy to find sources that look well-researched when in fact it was written by someone in high school who didn’t know what they were talking about.
Chapter seven has some interesting information about creating ideas. Personally, I am not in to freewriting just because I don’t like to write with no specific purpose. However, the book presented the idea tree and clustering which I remember from middle school. I haven’t used these approaches in a while and am now considering using them for my research paper. The last idea about conducting a survey seems a bit daunting but if the right questions are asked I believe much information can be gathered.
