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THE TRADITIONAL RESEARCH PAPER IS BEST

By Alexandria Lockett

  1. Technology should be really appreciated in society nowadays because back then when students or people had to write research papers using 30 sources, they would have to go to the library and look for books whereas now you’d go on the internet and search for the topic and get millions on to billions of reliable sources to use for the research paper.
  2. Research 2.0 would benefit students greatly and is a better structure for future research papers because it stores all data that is really sufficient for some research topics and engages researchers with other researchers.
  3. Research 2.0 best platform would be Wikipedia because of how students can edit on the websites and that’s what research 2.0 encourages researchers to come together answer and helping each other out. (Note) In my opinion, it’s strange how the worst website would be best for research 2.0. I’m saying this because students were taught that Wikipedia is really bad to use because other students are given the ability to edit but I guess that’s the point.

Wikipedia Research

  1. I’ve learned research has many creative ways of being collected but the main way is three steps which are collecting data, answering questions, and presenting answers to questions. 
  2. There are many flaws to writing research papers some can affect the paper drastically such as being bias or using personal feelings to lean towards a side of an argument rather than just using evidence giving. This could lead to spreading false information which is very bad. Another flaw in research sometimes the method of obtaining information can be inaccurate for example there was the type of researching method being taught to people called the “Western Method” which was working really well for collecting data in the west but when collecting data anywhere else it wasn’t as accurate.
  3. When talking about research it can be really broad because there are many types of research in society. And each type of research most of the time can not use the same method for the others. Scientific research is very different from historical research. 

1 Comment

  1. Professor Sean Scanlan

    Kai,
    Thanks for this Coffeehouse. The points on the Wikipedia article did not reflect what was in the article titled “Research.”
    -Prof. Scanlan

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