Blog 8

The way I choose my source for my English 101 papers is I read the topic of the assignment to get an idea of what kind of research I need to do to get good source for my papers. Usually for English 101 we go over many things like videos and articles that are usually are related to the prompt of the assignment. For example the week of paper 3 which was the ethical dilemmas assignment we watched Food Inc. which related to the assignment which made it easy to use in my paper. We also have been reading Omnivores Dilemma which also was related to the topic of the assignment. These are usually ways I choose my source that I use for my papers for English 101. If that doesn’t work for me then I would write a rough draft of my paper first because I would have ideas of what kind of source I would need. Then when I have an idea of what kind of source I need I usually start on Google and just search my topic and depending on the assignment I would just use the source I found on Google and use it in my paper but if the paper need scholarly sources then I would usually research on WSU libraries website since it approves scholarly articles. Some ways I would improve the way I research sources is spend more time on the research part to find better sources. Learning how to research on WSU libraries would also help my resource since they would be more reliable because it is through WSU which makes it more reliable than a source from Google. Placing these sources in my essay can be tricky but I usually place it after I put in an example so it can support my idea.