Blog Post #4

Reading chapter six in the Bedford Book of Genres gave me interesting information that I did not realize that was so important when long for sources in any kind of research. I did not think there were so many important details and steps to follow for a source to be reliable. I honestly had trust in the Internet for providing me information because I don’t see why they would provide false information. This chapter put the Internet into perspective, which made it easy to understand. References were made to the Wikipedia website and how it is not necessarily always reliable and shouldn’t be depended on for a research source. Learning about tips and tricks for identifying reliable sources will definitely benefit me when working on project 2 in ENC2135, and all kinds of research projects in general. Just searching and looking at the top results of any topic, I can see how sources can misguide you into believing false information or exaggerate information. You also don’t know if a source alone is factual at all, which to me is pretty interesting. You can’t trust the information the Internet provides and it is up to us to do our own investigations into determining if the source can be trusted or not.