Today we visited sweet Gail and started to do some individual source searching via Eric and OmniFile. Part of our assignment was to find two sources with different perspectives. As I was searching and “foldering” (a way of collecting sources to send to myself!) I realized I was judging a lot by title. Konner and I discussed that we are basically doing what Greene so very much gets extremely annoyed about! But, scholarly articles should have informative titles, and when these sources are listed via “relevancy” and the number adds up to nearly 400 options, I believe judging by titles, dates, availability to me, etc is really okay.
Below is my report on the two differing perspective sources I found. Note that I mention their titles- because they do give a sneak peak into what they are talking about. However, just one little step further of reading the opening statement adds SO MUCH MORE. The “more” includes what I add on in my second and third sentence of analysis.
(Imagine the “more” I could get by reading the entire source!)
As I go further and further into my surface level research where I start to take stock of what people are saying about my topic(s), I realize how important it is to do background research on the authors and read the whole source. This also adds a purpose to the annotated bibliography – it forces one to research (for the most part) correctly!