We live in an era, where information is easily accessed by just pressing “Enter” on your keyboard. So, finding information about almost everything and anything is virtually easy as long as one has the internet. Yet with this much information available there always seems to be contradictions among various information sources on the internet, thus making one either true or false.
Although I use the internet 80% of the time to find information for my assignment, I still look for information in books, journals and other sources that would verify information I have doubts about. When I want to find information, I mostly get it from the internet by using search engines such as Google, Ask or Bing but to find basic information about most topics I use Wikipedia. I also use the library to find more detailed information about a topic/subject compared to the internet which mostly gives brief summaries about a topic/subject. I mostly prefer to use the internet because I can get information from different people’s points of view rather than from a single person’s point of view in books. But the sources used for my assignments mainly depends on the subject.
For instance, if I want to find Information about history or mathematics, I prefer the library because the information is less likely to change or not change at all in the case of history but when I am looking for information about current events, politics, demographics or topics that are updated regularly the internet is where I get most of these information.
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