Finding and Evaluating Research Material

Hi friends ! 

How are you today ? Hope everyone is fine and have a good mood today. After the first post about the plagiarism then I want to write about the evaluating research material. I get this article from www.google.com.

In this article , the author are more focused on the evaluating the research material. There are three sources material that can be used in writing academic researh, report and assignment which are website, book and article. 


We can use website to complete our task. But not all website provide valid information. We must see the content on that website first either they are reliable or not , valid or outdated , the content provided is original or reproduced.If the content is reproduced you must search and find either it have permission statement or not. Reliable can be divide into two which are more reliable or less reliable. For the example of less reliable are discussion forum , blog and also yahoo answer. We still can read about the information written on that website but we cannot used that facts in our research .Besides that we can use search engine such as bing.com and google.com in order to retrieve information quickly.As we all know, search engine provide specific references and  information , general facts and  the information about specific people or even an organization. 

Then the second example of sources material is book. Now our government have distributed a lot of money to improve students and child learning. For the students in university , they have a lots of advantages where they can find book , article , journal , government document easily through library catalog. For example, for the UITM students , they can use ezaccess to find the materials needed.Not all students know about this facility. Here I provide the link connected to ezaccess. www.ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my . When we evaluate the book , we must look for the authority,who wrote and publish that book. After that,look for the currency and the accuracy either the book we read is free from errors or not , the syllabus are outdated or in current syllabus. These will make sure that the book used is valid and can be used.

For the last example of sources material is article. When we entering university level , article become compulsory materials needed in doing research. Newpapers , academic journal and magazine are the example of articles. We can find article through search engine , library catalog or even through electronic access such as ezaccess. We can evaluate the journal articles by looking for the sources , authority and also the length of the article. The sources must be written by the experts.Then the author must use the authoritative source.


In conclusion , whatever the sources materials we choose we must seek for the validity and the originality of that materials. This is important because this can determine either the information and facts we used in our task is valid or not.So that , I hope with a little knowledge I share with you , will give some benefits for you in the future.