Typically, when people think of doing research they automatically go to Google to search their topic and gather the information needed. One issue that this causes is that this specific search engine finds thousands of results that may not even be relevant to what one is searching for. This causes long hours of frustration and it takes researching a lot longer than it has to be. I was once a Google addict when it came to school assignments, but thanks to a few professors I now know that other sources are available that makes research a breeze. There are three different types of sources that I will focus on; popular sources, trade sources, and scholarly sources. I have found that the popular source is the easiest to read and is the simplest to
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The language used throughout a scholarly source is a lot more advanced and professional when compared to other types of sources, like trade or popular sources. Typically written by researchers who are experts in their field, scholarly sources are void of advertisements that cause it to appear unprofessional, but what it does include is visual material when it is vital to the communication of data. Before being published these sources go through a peer-review process who dispose of any bias it may contain. “Kindergarten Teachers’ Beliefs About Students’ Knowledge of Print Literacy and Parental Involvement in Children’s Print Literacy Development” by Jacqueline Lynch (2010) proves itself to be a scholarly article due to the extremely lengthy, yet specific, title which allows the reader to know exactly what the article entails without question. The trade articles’ abstract was about two sentences long, but the scholarly articles’ abstract is about two paragraphs long and holds a good amount of information within it (Lynch, 2010, pg.157). Within the abstract, it states that the main topic covered is the need for further examination of teachers’ beliefs and the role of families’ SES in relation to teachers’ beliefs (pg.157). By reading the abstract one can determine if it is something that interests them without having to read the full article. Looking further into the article itself the components include are the background to the study, the participants, data sources and procedures, data analysis, findings, discussion, and conclusion followed by the references used. Scholarly articles such as this have a solid foundation for those conducting research due to the large quantity of factual information and the in-depth quality of the article as a
The language used throughout a scholarly source is a lot more advanced and professional when compared to other types of sources, like trade or popular sources. Typically written by researchers who are experts in their field, scholarly sources are void of advertisements that cause it to appear unprofessional, but what it does include is visual material when it is vital to the communication of data. Before being published these sources go through a peer-review process who dispose of any bias it may contain. “Kindergarten Teachers’ Beliefs About Students’ Knowledge of Print Literacy and Parental Involvement in Children’s Print Literacy Development” by Jacqueline Lynch (2010) proves itself to be a scholarly article due to the extremely lengthy, yet specific, title which allows the reader to know exactly what the article entails without question. The trade articles’ abstract was about two sentences long, but the scholarly articles’ abstract is about two paragraphs long and holds a good amount of information within it (Lynch, 2010, pg.157). Within the abstract, it states that the main topic covered is the need for further examination of teachers’ beliefs and the role of families’ SES in relation to teachers’ beliefs (pg.157). By reading the abstract one can determine if it is something that interests them without having to read the full article. Looking further into the article itself the components include are the background to the study, the participants, data sources and procedures, data analysis, findings, discussion, and conclusion followed by the references used. Scholarly articles such as this have a solid foundation for those conducting research due to the large quantity of factual information and the in-depth quality of the article as a