Thursday, January 31, 2008
WEEK 4
Academic sources could be considered things such as encyclopedia's, government books, or web sites ending in .edu or .gov. Instructors may insist that you use these sources because the could be considered more reliable than non-academic sources. A place you could use a non-academic source would be when giving a narrative speech about yourself. Some things I would consider non-academic sources would be personal photos and memories that could be used during your research.
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I agree on the website thing. I didnt think of putting that in my blog as an academic source. Good thinking! Yeah there is no way you could use academic sources for narrative speech. Didnt think about personal photoes and memories could count as non-academic sources.
I didn't even think of personal photos as being a non academic source. I was just thinking about my sub culture but I agree they could be good sources depending on what topic you are writing about. Such as history of your family or something.
In a way, a photograph could probably be something of both kinds of sources; not only can someone go back to it and find the information you used, but it is also more abstract. I suppose it also depends on what you are studying.
That is a really good point. I never thought about using photos or things like that as research material. I also agree with the website thing however I think that a website can be reliable without having a .org or a .gov but it would depend onthe website and you should probably check a .com out before using it.
Wow you came up with some good sources from both types. I'd forgotten all about encyclopedias and the idea of using photos is really good as well.
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