DQ 3-2

DQ3-2 Responses

1.

The internet is filled with many sites and many options, and to think that each  everyone is credible would just be foolish. The importance of considering one’s sources and making sure their reliable is one in which we as graduate students need to take to heart. As a graduate student one needs to look into the research they find and make sure that it comes from an authoritative site, has additional sources that back up their data, and lastly that there isn’t bias in the research that’s being done (Driscoll & Brizee). If these things aren’t done correctly, then one’s work will be open to scrutiny, and one's own additional research will be flawed, going to show that taking the extra time to look into one’s own sources is critical when it comes down to doing proper research. With this in mind as graduate students and aspiring innovators in our fields, it’s our due diligence to look into and evaluate every one of our sources to make sure they’re reliable and unbiased.

 

Driscoll, D. L., & Brizee, A. (n.d.). Welcome to the Purdue OWL. Retrieved May 10, 2018, from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/553/

2.

Credibility, reliability, and unbiased work are some of the basic and fundamental attributes of an accomplished and relevant research work. They provide not just the authenticity, the believability, the assertion, and the academic postulation and conclusion of a research but the acceptance of such work as an expansion of knowledge and greater contribution to the academia. In the academic community, when these qualities are lacking, the consequences are dire and would be considered a massive set back to the community and a loss of credibility on the part of the researcher, in some cases they are just ethical misconducts. It is therefore overwhelmingly important for researchers to meticulously and stringently evaluate and re-evaluate sources for authenticity. It is catastrophic for a research work to be found misleading or outright false. The reasons for sources verification abound to ensure that research works are true, factual and evidence based and can be used as viable tool to expose all and sundry to workable and functional information and knowledge. The need for transparency in both research development and public dissemination calls for the establishment of guidelines designed to orient authors as regards publication requirements (Tavares, 2011).

Hernández-Ruiz, A. (2016). Antifraud Editorial Policy in Spanish and Latin American Scientific Publication: JCR Social Sciences Edition. Comunicar, 24(48

3.

We currently live in a time in which a world of information is at our technological fingertips.  It is exciting, it is informative, helpful and educational, however, it can also be a web of misinformation and prevalent bias.  Not all information and research found on the internet is held to the same standard of cross-referencing, a review process and screening process that is used in a scholarly publications.  When conducting graduate-level research, one needs to be cautious and pay close attention to find solid academic resources that are reliable, factual, current and well-supported with research.  Many of these academic resources are found in online journals or sites set up by scholarly organizations and universities ("Research Using the Internet.  n.d.).  These resources are held to high standards of publication and go through a system of controlled checks and balances (Evaluating Information Resources. 2018).

 

If a student does not follow the guidelines for using credible, scholarly sources in conducting research, he or she runs the risk of submitting work that is inaccurate, questionable, bias, or unstable.  This could cause a student to lose credibility in their work and cause their academic integrity to be questioned.   

 

MacDonald, W, & Seel, J., (n.d.), Research using the internet. University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/researching/research-using-internet/

 

Evaluating information resources. 2018. Elmer E. Rasmussun library. University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Retrieved from  https://library.uaf.edu/ls101-evaluation