Books: Books give you a basic outline of information. They
go into detail, but you may need more than one book to get all of the
information you need. These are reliable sources for a paper because the author
is an expert or has gotten expert opinions in that topic (most likely).
Blog Post: Depending on who’s writing the blog and what the
topic is you, you can get different things from a blog post. It can either be
strictly facts, strictly opinion or both. This can be good or bad for a
research paper. If the post is accurate it can be a positive thing, if not it
can harm the paper.
Scholarly Journal: You will find expert opinion or peer
reviewed articles on your topic. You can find statistics, analysis of other
papers or articles and actual facts on whatever you are studying. This is
excellent for a research paper. Scholarly journals are almost always the best
source for any academic paper or research.
Wikipedia: Wikipedia is a toss it. It can give you great
background information to start, but anyone at any time can come in and change
information. Though it does give dates, they may not be accurate. This is a
terrible source for an academic paper. It gives you a place to start but the information
could be tampered with and that is very dangerous.
Podcast: This is similar to the blog post. Depending who is
on the air with the host can determine whether or not this is a good source for
a paper. This can be based off opinion and not the facts. I would not recommend
this for an academic research paper unless I knew the information was coming
from a person with the credentials to speak on a specific topic that I was
studying.
I agree with your statements about these topics, I think that books, scholarly journals are the most reliable because to me these are the most trusted for when you are doing a research paper, scholarly journals are a safe bet when it come is papers. Wikipedia, podcast, and blog posts are in my opinion are not something that your teacher would accept.
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