Rutgers RIOT

Rutger's RIOT tutorial offered an easy interaction between the user and the library resources.  Easily demonstrating the steps one at a time made it easy to recall.  Elaborating on the importance of choosing a specific topic versus a broad one was helpful when considering future papers.  However, one must make sure their topic of choice is not so narrow that information  is difficult to come across.  To gain a better understanding of ones topic, websites and search engines such as Google and Wikipedia are helpful.  Though, both do not provide proper primary sources acceptable for credit.  It is important to find a strong primary source that will help support the argument.  Secondary sources coinciding with the original primary source only strengthens the discussion.  When conducting research in the library, RIOT offers important points to consider when searching for primary sources.  One must consider using key words to find specific sources.  The RIOT tutorial provided me with insight on how to properly conduct a search via the library's data bases.  With this information I feel confident in gaining information for future papers.