Reviewing types of Sources

With a book as a source, a person will find background information on a specific topic and more in depth information. A book, depending on if it is creditable, is a great source to use in a research paper because I think you can’t go wrong with a book. If a person has a research paper on past events, a book would help more because of the background information and goes in to details on that subject. A person can use a book in their research very easily because of the information the book contains. There is so much information that a person can quote key incidents in the research topic. With a blog post, you can find a person’s opinion on the research topic. Depending on whom the person is and what your topic is about, a blog post can be a good source. If your research topic is about something medical and the blog post is by a well-known creditable medical doctor, you can use that doctor’s blog post in your research paper. You can find an expert on a subject by scholarly journal articles. You will have good information as far as research on the specific topic. It can also be a great source if you are looking at recent topics because you have an expert’s ideas on that topic. You can use them as important parts to your research paper as well. With Wikipedia, you can also find background information on a specific topic and details on it. I think the only reason that makes it a bad source is because anyone can write and edit an article. Other than that, Wikipedia can be used in your research paper by just using some general information about the topic.