Chapter 17 & 18 5 points

Chapter 17:

1. You will find most academic resources on the shelf or available electronically through databases.

2. Searches with keywords use the computer’s ability to look for any term in any filed of the electronic record.

3. The first instinct when you need to find information is to do a quick keyword search on the Web.

4. More crucially with a tool like google is to discover how the resources of the site itself can refine your choice or direct you to works better suited to academic argument.

5. Academic arguments can be supported by evidence you gather through experiments.

Chapter 18:

1. Draw as many reliable sources as you can handle when you are preparing to write.

2. you must be the judge of the accuracy and trustworthiness of particular electronic sources.

3. Web sources are mostly open and unregulated, careful researchers look for corroboration before accepting evidence they find online.

4. the effectiveness of an argument often depends on the quality of the sources that support or prove it.

5. Be aware of that when you take information from a given source, it will often carry with it at least some of the preferences, assumption, and biases of the people who produce and disseminate it.