I thought the reading was pretty useful and straight to the point, especially true now that we have a research paper coming up. It brought out many key strategies that would help us with our researches. Although some of these strategies such as defining terms, searching through key words, locating sources through the encyclopedia and other sources’ works cited list, and taking notes in process of brainstorming information I sort of knew already prior to the reading, it was still nice to have them refreshed again. I found it also interesting that the reading pointed out Wikipedia as a possible opening source when through prior schooling I’ve been taught to not use. But I guess it made sense to have Wikipedia as a “stepping stone” when launching the search at first while not using it as an end point for research. The most helpful knowledge I got from this reading is perhaps the sources and sites it introduced such as the Google bibliography search engine that I never knew existed before.