Friday, February 1, 2008
Week 4
Academic resources are considered resources in which come from accredited sources or a professional in that field. For example, a university study would be an academic resource as to where wikipedia allows anyone to place information online with or without sources; this would be considered a non academic resource. Normally with academic resources someone has done research to write that article making it reliable. This is why professors want students to use them, they don’t want a student to use information for a paper that is not creditable and could be false. However, non accredited sources could be used for assignments that require insider information or personal input from others, such as blogs. Although these are not accredited sources that have reliable sources listed for information or not have committed any studies for the topic, they give a person an insiders view on the subject and get daily or personal information about the subject as opposed to statistics and data we can acquire feelings.
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I agree credited sources are a big reason why most people become acclaimed for their writings. If what someone is writing is not valid than no one will want to read what they are talking about. I think most non-academic sources are on the internet. Wikapedia is a source from Google that most of my teachers in high school did not accept when we would turn in papers.
I agree that academic sources would be considered resources that were accredited in a personal field. Such as a source listed from a study, I think that it is also important to consider sources like books and scholarly journals in academic sources. I completely agree with you, I am sure that professors would not want their students writing a paper based on facts that may or may not be true, because then the student is not learning anything.
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