It's nice to see that people are understanding Wikipedia as a decent resource for information on the Internet. The thing about research and paper is that there is a lot of it and there is a variety of journals and articles of resources with all varying scholar and reliability. They're only a couple a few encyclopedias that are on the Internet made for research, wikipedia being one known for its open access and open source format. This allows for it to be approached from a communal sense allowing for a variety of experiences ideas and perspectives to be given, so often at the cost of credibility coming from an author that is renowned in their field for the subject.

I think especially with the Internet and that being the primary space where people are researching, it could be especially hard and overwhelming finding resources. I think key trait of a researcher is flexibility and being able to understand the scope and resources you have your disposal when doing research. Even in the context of more professional work you are often given a certain budget a certain timeline that will restrict your project in a certain way. I think it's just essential that from the beginning you have a clear understanding of what your budget is quote unquote into sure to ask and refine with peers.

I completely agree with this sentence I think establishing boundaries for your research is especially important but starting off with what your teacher has is important. For the context of academic papers written as a student your audience is a bit ambiguous generally speaking the only people who will read your academic papers is your professor and so understanding the guidelines and what necessarily the professor needs out of that paper is important. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that you not only can do research but that you are actively learning engaging and articulating the information you are researching. It's important that not only instructor headlines are clear and concise but also that in the moments that they aren't that we are asking and refining to ensure that it is an acceptable essay for the assignment.

The specific line reminds me of the concept of Journalism. When I was doing previous research for this class, I looked into sources like ScienceDaily, which was referred to as a site for journalism. Journalism is a low-quality form of Journalism in which information is repackaged to create articles to meet the increasing pressure of time and cost without further research or fact-checking. It plays a huge game of telephone between news and research articles that offers, most of the time, nothing new for consumers, which lengthens the time in research. There are many arguments on whether or not certain things are churnalism or articles that are catered to putting information in plain terms or simpler terms for audiences like children and the general public is up to wider debate and Case by case.

There's also a very common issue in conversations that are happening within the online social media space. Due to the general Public's understanding of the validity of the journals, articles, organizations, and their academic rigor, using their sources in your claims puts credibility behind your claims online. They'll often do so because, due to the nature of social media, people are not as investigative of the original sources themselves. Many people think a claim in the Tweet is valid because the source is valid, without necessarily the claim matching the citation.

I think this is especially true in the current landscape of journalism, where there is more value put into portraying all sides as equal than seeking out the truth and reality of a situation. Often, these are decisions weighed on by financial incentives; owners of companies do not want certain information to be seen in a negative light, or they prefer other things to be seen in a negative light or devalued. Not all ideas within the marketplace of ideas are created equal, nor logically sound. Nor should everything in the idea of the marketplace be given too much weight, especially in the context of certain stories and certain ideas. This makes having information literacy, especially in the aspect of researching who funds and the incentives of the authors and their publishing companies, especially important.