Question #4

For me, when I have to research for a topic I struggle in finding scholarly websites. I also find it difficult to support my evidence or my topic by sources. Even harder to try and summarize the information in one’s own words but without plagiarizing anyone else work. Yes, indeed the Library Research course helped me by considering the broad opportunities of plagiarizing. It also helped me by providing examples that demonstrated the difference and variety of ways to plagiarize. I found it helpful by the tutorials we had and the lectures that where provided to us. I strongly believe that in the long run, the course would come in handy because I’ll have a foundation of how to begin a research paper or to support a topic. Thus, I believe we should have had more lectures than quizzes and class presentations. It was hard to learn from those specially when it came to understanding what the question where. Some things in the quizzes I don’t even remember going through. Though for my overall experience in Library Research course, I can say it was useful and educative due to the fact that in college we will have to be able to write research papers that will need citations. However, I would have liked to have more class time for lectures and more time to prepare for quizzes and the final. For a five day class, I acknowledge the course and hope that in the future I can build from what I learn this year.