In his article however he doesn’t really use any other sources besides various secondary sources besides himself as a primary source. I think that him being one of the only primary sources does hurt the article’s credibility a little bit because firsthand information is always going to be better than when you get it from a secondary source. Most of his secondary sources are various books and articles such as in the section Casual Sex and Civilization he uses Achieving Our Country (1998) by Richard Rorty to help his point of saying how the 1960s was a real turn in how people viewed love and sex. Lawler really makes great use of his secondary sources to help him provide evidence about whatever section of the article he was focusing in on. Lawler actually never really disagrees with any of his sources and uses them to help make the article more credible and better in general.
Yolen’s decision to write Briar Rose in a fairy tale forum helps provide another viewpoint that can help you comprehend such a gruesome period of history like the Holocaust. “Briar Rose reinscribes memory, and shows us what an important role storytelling can play in the acts of surviving and transcending horror.” (Wells 1) The very last article that I was able to find on the Briar Rose was a short one, but clearly had a positive reaction towards Yolen’s book. It states that Briar Rose regardless of the fact that it is a work of fiction speaks the truth and is brutally honesty. “Despite whatever connections we may or may not have to this dark period in history, there is a part of us that is only able to comprehend the true enormity of such stories when they are hidden in depts of older tales, for these old tales exist in
This source is useful. Throughout this article Mabel Khawaja talks about different literary elements that were used and when he states something he backs up his information to give his audience evidence. 2. I felt that this article was good when talking about the how successful Hosseini was when he used different literary devices to make the readers understand the book. This article was more positive and had no criticism, unlike my second bibliography 3.
Websites are really easy to use and contain a variety of information, such as pictures, tables and diagrams/graphs. Websites can be really inviting, they can be colourful, this is better than a website looking really dull and boring as nobody would want to read the information there. Books are a suitable resource too as they are reliable. Books are reliable as they have to be checked by a number of agents before they get published therefore there won't be anything made up in there. Books are also a good resource as they include case studies and real life situations.
It is a historically accurate novel which is the kind of books I enjoy most. I was a little hesitant on reading The Battle of Britain because I have not studied the air force excessively, however I learned very much about the air force furthermore The Battle of Britain. Richard Overy successfully delivered his message to the reader with real life scenarios to entertain the reader, historical accurate dates along with historical accurate information, by applying his knowledge with his writing skills Richard cleverly put together admirable sentences/paragraphs to educate the
With the abundance use of the internet, information is always at the tip of our fingers ,making it easy for one to borrow ideas or plagiarise. Unfortunately borrowing of ideas or plagiarising does not always mean one is trying to induce their own creative thoughts or ideas, people end up passing these ideas as their own, which becomes academic dishonesty. In my line of business(Marketing communications) I work with a lot of creative people and even if you are well vest in almost everything, you could find yourself sitting with a lawsuit. In 2008 I acquired a new client National Heritage Council(NHC) , they wanted a re-vamp on their corporate identity (CI) which meant brand strategy, brand activation etc. I sat down with my team, we came up with a concept and we got down to work.
The reference links on Wikipedia proved to be more beneficial to my research than any of the information actually contained within the site. I found the website for The British Origami Society through the reference links on Wikipedia. It was the most informative site and I found it useful in backing up any information I had obtained from Wikipedia. Scanning the front page of the website, I discovered a man named David Lister who was recognized as an ‘Origami Historian’. The site contains copious amounts of short essays and opinion pieces written by Lister
However, it is extremely easy to make a website these days, anyone can make one. With anyone making there own website could mean that it might just be there own personal opinion and less research. Things are more difficult to believe now especially on the Internet. Just because you find something online doesn’t mean its true, and you should always make sure a website is legit and credible. There are many ways for you to be aware if a website is valid.
Opening up a book and reading something , that has substance and draws your interest to turn the next page and read more, is what i would call valuable reading. Mr. Carr is saying that we have gotten far away from that . There is a new way in which we are reading. Online users are “power browsing” through titles, contents pages, and abstracts. I personally don’t use the internet much, but when I have used it I found it to be useful.
When individual logs onto the internet he or she may found a sense of information over kill since there is no filters in place to organize from the truth or the fiction of items that he or she reads, and Searching in a specific database, such as Ashford’s Library is different from searching in Bing, Google, and Yahoo. Since these set up for various individual people, where he or she wants to obtain their information from and it is up to the individual person on how they would interpreted their information. Well I like to use Google and the local library it is much easier for me too look up things in Ashford Library for example Ubiquitous Computing articles I would get lost with Ashford libraries system I have a hard time find articles with this topic. However, I would then go to Diigo search bar with look up the similar research on ubiquitous computing attempt to observer articles on this topic. The information might be extremely overwhelming when it comes to influential movement in the last century and with the terms of “ revolution” refers to a drastic change in technological revaluation