Chapters four and five of the Wadsworth reading covered the bases of researching. It covered the differences between primary and secondary research and ways to keep your research organized. A very important aspect of chapter four was going to the right place to get the good, valid, reliable research. Most students will admit that when they are assigned a research assignment, the Google tab will butt its ugly head at some point during the project. I feel that this is the most important part of any research project, knowing where to go. Although Google or Yahoo! will always produce hundreds, even thousands of results, it's nearly impossible to sift through the worthless information with the truly good research. Throughout the chapter, many alternative researching techniques and places to turn to find truly legit research to prove or disprove your research topic.
Throughout the reading, it was somewhat easy to answer the questions posed by the author when thinking into the future about my writing project. Doing part of the immersive learning project will allow me to gather research from a primary source, myself. Not only that, but for the writing part of my paper, it would be possible to add in other forms of research like surveys and interviews about students and how often they rely on technology in their daily lives.
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