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Making a thanksgiving turkey is not easy. There are a lot of steps one has to go through to make the turkey come out good enough to serve. It is generally a long process that takes at least five hours. Dryness is the biggest complaint people have. In this video it shows you how to keep the turkey moist. In the video the cook mentions something about “basting” she should explain further what this process is so people can understand not to do it in case they are not fully aware what it is. Other than that, she does a thorough job at explaining how to cook a thanksgiving turkey if one is unaware how to do so

http://youtu.be/7YHcopxsa-E

Citing information is important and necessary for several reasons and one of them being the most impotant, to me, is acknowledgment for the author. While reading a excerpt from Howard, Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight, I realized that there are many reasons one should cite informatiom, that are all equivelantly important. Cititng reliable sources also validates conclusions that are made or presumed. We can not state facts that can not be supported by proper research. quality should also be considered when citing  source. Links to the sources trace the information and represent the gatheresd information

In class we reviewed many ways to research that has helped me with numerous amounts of things such as, finding an article or piece of information that is reliable and where to look for them. Databases are helping me find scholarly articles that I need for my paper. JSTOR is one of them. When I was gathering articles/info for my annotated bibliography, JSTOR helped me find articles that dealt with the law aspect of my assignment. Google scholar helped, but not so much as I hoped because when I would type something in the search engine, it would pull up articles in different languages or something that was completely irrelevant. In order to recieve worthy information, I had to put much effort in refining my searches

In class we discussed many strategies that we can use to help advance our searches. This has been very successful with helping me locate useful information for my research paper. My favorite is google scholar. I like google scholar because it is much more trust worthy than regular google searches and,
I feel more comfortable and secure using it. Eliminating stop words has also taught me how to advance my searches. Before knowing about google scholar, I was nervous about writing my paper. Now that we went over a few different strategies, I now have more confidence. Easybib has been a great help as well because it teaches us how to be organized, it locates reliable information and my favorite part about easybib is how it sites the articles.

The issues that I have come across while doing this research project is finding reliable sources. I am also dealing with an issue that i’ve always dealt with which is, writers block. I try to think of ways on how I could attempt to write this paper such as, what my opeining sentence might be. I have been using google extensively to try and develop ways on where to locate my sources. During class, we have gone over ways that can help us locate a better source especially on how to use a search engine. Now I am more aware on how to formulate a sentence on google that can strengthen my search.