Journal 5 Academic Searching

 Academic Searching

    When doing certain projects in college you will end up having to find popular websites and academic sources to help make your project more understanding. The research is hard to find as there is a variety of sources that may or may not help you depending on your project. I did a project for my English 1301 class about online learning, searching for the sources was pretty easy because the topic was easy to talk about and search for. The way that I found the websites for my topic was by searching for learning games, audiobooks, and youtube videos. Kids these days are always playing video games, watching Youtube, and having their headphones on, there are many ways these kids could learn, I used to play learning games when I was younger and it was fun, I enjoyed playing the games as it made learning exciting for me. Audiobooks are a little boring for me as your just listening to the person talk, but for other people, it may be more relaxing hearing the book and knowing what's going on. it may seem boring at first but you end up liking it after a while. Youtube is one of the most entertaining websites on earth, you can learn absolutely everything by just searching for what you need to learn, and multiple videos will pop up showing you how to do basic math, to learning how to annotate properly on a book. These things are so easy to look up if you are having trouble understanding in class, it'll help you and keep you in pace with the class. going through these sources wasn't difficult, it was just tedious having to look for them, and I didn't use any type of technique because it was somewhat simple to find my sources. There were about maybe two sources that I needed to read but I only read certain sections to get what I needed from them. Although reading the sources was easy selecting was probably the hardest part to do when it came to this topic but after some hard thinking I got the right sources to make my topic understandable to the audience.