Inquiry, Invention, and Research

For the inquiry three assignment, We started off writing research blogs. In the beginning I didn't fully understand what that meant. In high school, conducting research and integrating it into our paper wasn't the same. We just Googled our topic found the first article and used a quote from the article. After looking over my first couple research blogs and reading others I realized I wasn't doing my blogs properly. I would just put my topic in Google and look at the first couple pages that came up. I Now  understand how to search for research. When looking for information on my topic I searched keywords  instead of my topic such as technology and movies or file sharing and movies. Some of the results didn't relate to my topic but when i searched through out all the pages and read numerous articles I was able to find credible academic articles that would strengthen my paper. Through the process of conducting research, I have learned how to gather research from articles and apply the information to my paper. Another key tool I learned throughout this class was how to correctly and smoothly integrate a source though out my paper. Before I would just stick a quote in whenever I felt like it. Now I introduce the speaker, find a place where the quote relates to the topic on hand and and future explain why I used this quote. This has prepared for later on in academia when doing research. I now know where to look and how to find the main points in an article as well as integrating sources into my paper.