Chapter 2

Chapter two is the next step in perusing your research papers. Chapter one is all about picking your topic and narrowing it down; chapter two is all about how to go about researching that topic. It gives you several great ideas on where to get your information such as the obvious sources of books and the internet down to the less obvious such as newspapers articles and scholarly journals (though this should be an obvious source for a research paper, I personally had never really considered it before this class). It suggests using available data bases to find these articles, which is another really good, and obvious idea I had not considered.

I found this chapter to be of more use to me then the latter because picking the topic as always been the easier part for me. Researching however always feels daunting to me, with sources like the internet presenting overwhelming amounts of fact, opinion, and pure fiction it becomes almost scary to dive into the waters. This chapter, like the last breaks down your goal into not one massive project but several little tasks. This helps settle my brain as it gives me an easy task to focus on and I can stop looking, and stressing about, the big picture until it’s almost already done.