Essay on Authoritative and Popular Sources in Discipline In my Athletic Training Major, many people have trouble selecting and understanding if a certain source is credible or unreliable. For research, many use either authoritative or popular sources to retrieve their information. Davy Gibbs (2016) defined authoritative sources to be “sources that are the most believable and usually written by an expert or a professional in a field of study.” The University of British Columbia defined popular sources as, “sources that are usually opinionated and written by a journalist or editor” (UBC, 2015). I decided to do some research myself to find out which source is the most credible, and best to use when writing a research paper. I feel it is important to know which sources are best because many sources could lie by producing false information. I am doing this research to figure out what sources are best for me, and also for the fact of helping people know which sources are the most credible and reliable for research.
Literature Review After researching and reading through my
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Popular sources are less credible and mostly used for entertainment. From my research, I learned that popular sources are “more informal and broad” (UBC, 2015). Although the facts and information may sound correct, some of the information may be false. Popular sources are written to make someone interested in a certain topic. Like this excerpt from the Time Magazine article, “The Science of Peak Human Performance,” one can see how informal the language and vocabulary is. In the article about human performance, the author states, “The science of ultimate human performance has a bad name–literally. Flow is the term used by researchers for optimal states of consciousness, those peak moments of total absorption where self vanishes, time flies, and all aspects of performance go through the roof” (Kotler,
Secondary sources of literature are primarily written by journalists and does not report an original finding, but rather relies on an original source to provide information that can be used as background material. To use it correctly, one must first distinguish it from primary sources and understand that secondary sources alone cannot sufficiently and
The most successful approaches to the public’s acceptance of scientific information are the cues from political leaders, persuasive syntax, the use of narratives, and research into a scientific source’s
After reviewing the sources that I have gathered in my previous weeks’ assignments, I have noticed an underlying factor between them all. Some of the sources take this factor a completely different direction than what I was originally looking for, but they all have similar sections or quotes that attribute to my own personal questions and possible research topic.
The two sources were used to gather information from studies about the opinions of the public.
I believe that for a historian to find a convincing source he/she must find a strong primary source and then branch out from there. In my mind, the best primary sources are either journals or logs that came from that specific time period. I find it very helpful and very thought provoking to be able to read someone’s first had experience of how they were feeling during the event that I am researching. In addition, by reading and analyzing
Nicolas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” implies that the internet is reprograming our brains, making us unable to enjoy deep reading. Carr explains that his mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Lately, he’s had a hard time enjoying books. Carr continued that many of his friends who are also literary types are experiencing the same “phenomena”. The more they use the web the more they have to fight to stay focused when reading long pieces of writing. Carr says that even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb.
...s to disease. I feel that with this knowledge, people will be more open to people who look or feel out of place and help them to feel not lonely.
This source is a research paper on a experimental investigation done on women in a published journal. In this investigation, three groups of women are exposed to fashion with brand names. The three groups were one with no labeling, one with a short warning label, and one with an explanative warning label. The investigation showed that the group with a short warning label felt the less body dissatisfaction and were able to recall more of the brand names whereas the group with an explanative warning label couldn’t be bothered to read the whole labeling and the control group (without any labeling) both felt a greater level of body dissatisfaction. I will use this source ...
Flow is a state a person enters which is akin to completely encompassing motivation and attention to what they are doing. Each person can experience flow under different circumstances and tasks and in fact the tasks that I personally experience flow under may be very different from the tasks that would make another person experience the same level of flow. Csikszentmihalyi (2008) wrote “the common characteristics of optimal experience: a sense that one’s skills are adequate to cope with the challenges at hand, in a goal-directed, rule-bound, action system that provides clear clues as to how well one is performing.”
Garbutcheon-Singh, K. B., Dixit, S., Lee, A., Brown, P., & Smith, S. D. (2016). Assessment of attitudes towards sun-protective behaviour in Australians: a cross-sectional study. Australiasian Journal of Dermatology, 57(2), 102-107. doi:10.1111/ajd.12334
One of the milestones I had never accomplished before but found it a beneficial tool, the annotated bibliography. How I had dreaded week two’s work, just the name of it made me nervous, the thought of summarizing someone else’s entire work was very intimidating. Little did I know that when I began the research process that it would make me look deeper than I ever have at the sources I wanted to use for my research essay. At that point, I had already found a handful of articles and journals that I wanted to use to support my topic. But come to find out what I had found was not scholarly or credible. I had assumed that what I had found in the Shapiro Database was completely reliable, but I was mistaken. I learned quickly how to narrow down my searches so they would produce peer-reviewed material for my research. I also stumbled upon some pleasant surprises during this process, good old hardback books. They were easy to get and were sent quickly through the mail by the Shapiro Library. They ended up becoming some of the best sources for information that I had found. The annotated bibliography made me analyze my sources more than I ever had, and produced fewer results but of much higher quality than I ever dreamed of
Yes, many can argue that there are plenty of websites out there that offer so much information; however, is that information always credible? The answer to that is no. Newspapers have to be credible, because they go through editing and review before they are published. Almost anyone now can go online and post something for you to read and think they know what they are talking about. It is not good to fall in this trap.
Although the philosophical concept of dispositif is applicable to any social structure, the terminology has been widely adopted by film scholarship, beginning in the mid-1970s, with theorist Louis Baudry. A dispositif can be described as the product of heterogeneous elements in relation to one another, which have a specific effect of subjectification on an entire social body. In 1975, theorist Louis Baudry specifically coined the concept of cinematographic angle for dispositif, based on features that were also used to constitute apparatus theory. Apparatus theory refers to the passive experience a viewer undergoes when watching a film under specific conditions, including the darkened theatre space, technology, placement of the projector and
Demir, Muge. "Importance Of Ethic, Credibility And Reliability In Online Journalism." European Journal Of Social Science 24.4 (2011): 537-545.
Information Retrieval deals with the representation, storage, organization of and access to Information items. The evaluation of an information retrieval system is the process of assessing how well a system meets the information needs of its users. Information retrieval (IR) systems use a simpler data model than database systems. Information organized as a collection of documents. The effective retrieval of relevant information is directly affected both by the user task and by the logical view of the documents adopted by the retrieval system. Information Retrieval (IR) is the method that contract with retrieval of unstructured data mainly textual documents, in response to a query or topic statement, which may itself be unstructured.