When looking for information for a research project, some students

prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to

mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals.

Which do you prefer? Explain why.

When I do my research, I prefer getting my information from books and

journal articles rather than websites, because books and journal articles

more often have accurate information. For example, I was once

researching the fish of California for a class project. That was quite a

specific topic—who studies fish in California anyways! And so as I was

looking for information, I found quite a few blogs of people who

enjoyed fishing in California, and wrote about fishing but didn't really

know what they were saying. Some of the information was just wrong.

On the other hand, when I looked at academic journals and books about

fish in California, I found that the information was more detailed than

the websites and more accurate.