<p>I was just wondering what most people read for their paper research?</p>
<p>Personally, I get most of my research off of JSTOR (10 or more articles), and I'll check one or two books out of the library. My teacher absolutely hates us using books as sources. She has this hilarious phrase about "sniffing a bibliography" when she grades papers. Apparently the bibliography is the first thing she looks through. She's v. big about finding primary sources and using academic journals.</p>
<p>Wow...I feel lazy...my main source is usually wikipedia,I always check the sources it lists also, unless they specify that you can't use it.</p>
<p>You teacher sounds harsher than most about the works you use, but I think it's good (though surely annoying).
I've never had a teacher who disapproved of books, but that's mainly because they had enough to deal with trying to keep people from using only wikipedia and non-scholarly internet sources. In that situation, even a crappy book looks good.
But the fact that you know how to research and read scholarly journal work is great. Of course, there are <em>good</em> books, I wouldn't ban them in one fell swoop...it all depends on the topic.</p>
<p>i would use JSTOR but i dont have a subscription</p>
<p>What's JSTOR?</p>
<p>Questia rocks my no-show socks.</p>
<p>Ilovesoftball44: JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, all of their stuff is in PDF</p>
<p>LuckMC11: Does your school provide one?</p>
<p>yea but they wont give students access to it...u have to go thru the librarian and ull get ur articles "whenever they come in" aka in over 3 weeks...u dont have that kinda time when ur in an AP class that ur doin a research paper in..lol</p>
<p>My teachers love it when we use books.....</p>
<p>They're relieved when we don't use the internet lol...</p>