Who woulda Thunk it..

Chapter 6 seems to talk all about research, how to do it, what type of sources to use, how it can be used in everyday life not just in formal papers. This chapter just like all the other ones seems to be pretty long, but I found that it was not as repetitive as the others. I think the information given here will be really useful for our up coming papers. Though I found the whole chapter interesting and useful there was one area that stood out to me. That area was the one that explains how to use resources other than the internet and library. The chapter says that you can use local organizations, the library, the internet, and even neighborhoods. The most surprising one of these was the neighborhood. I would have never thought that people in a neighborhood could help out with a research topic. I also think that researching in a neighborhood would be a good idea for my topic since I am thinking about writing about the budget cuts and how that is affecting education in Santa Clara County. I think that this would be helpful because just like it is stated in the book, “People who have lived in a community for a long time can tell you about the history of the community or about their perspective on the effects of present events”. So I think I would be able to get valuable opinions from people going through the hard time like students and parents living in that area as well as older people who have seen things change. I think a good way to get these opinion would be to set up a poll(too bad I don’t know how) and see what people think, as well as interviewing some people that live in Santa Clara County.