Journal - Week 4

1. The “How I Know” assignment was pretty easy for me to accomplish. I followed the instructions and there were a lot of results to the “origin of Canuck.” However, I only looked at a few sites that provided some argumentative results and knew that not just one answer was correct. I even saw one site that argued how each argument given could or couldn’t fit – that one was most interesting to me. Then I wrote the essay about myself from an honest perspective. My research plan seemed like it would be fairly straight-forward, since I already had so much information, but I tended to feel like I was repeating myself in a lot of the answers. Lastly, when I completed “Selecting Information Sources,” I found the readings in the book and the video to fill in a lot of blanks for me.
2. The “How I Know” assignment was very insightful to me. Reading about what we do and don’t really know held some perspective that I never really thought of before. Furthermore, I would suggest a lot of other people come to terms with this information because I find it so sad how many people don’t want to admit they don’t actually know everything. When I did my research plan I thought I was doing it all properly, but I later thought I didn’t do a part of it correctly and wanted to go and change it, however I wasn’t sure if that was “legal” so I left it that way. Finally, in the “Selecting Information Sources” assignment, I thought I did very well. But today I got an email from Francine saying one of my statements was incorrectly stated. I understood what she meant, and I do think some periodicals produce good facts, I just think they also produce a lot of biased positions, even when they aren’t meant in that way. However, I do see them being used as a good primary source and see how some could be non-biased, so I will definitely remember that in my search.