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Essay / Literacy - 1099
Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized in the United States for terminally ill patients? The first part of writing a research question is stating the topic, which is physician-assisted suicide. Then I decided which argument to discuss in favor of assisted suicide (to legalize it). Finally, who would benefit from the legalization of assisted suicide (the terminally ill). Scholarly sources provide researched information that has been reviewed by expected colleagues in the field of study, while popular sources can be written by anyone to inform or entertain readers. Scholarly sources use research, experimentation, and statistics to generate in-depth knowledge in a general area of study, which is then published in credible professional journals. Articles from popular sources, on the other hand, are usually published in magazines and newspapers as short articles, which describe what the public wants to read. Scholarly sources are different from Internet sources because scholarly articles come from a printed source and are supported by research and peer review. Internet sources may provide information that may be inaccurate, biased or mythical. A library database is a collection of online resources containing scientific information for use in academic research. The database includes information from published print sources such as magazines, newspapers, journals and reference books. Information from the Internet must be evaluated because anyone can post information on the Internet. Web pages often do not contain dates, editors or authors who verify the credibility of the information. To determine the credibility of a website, the researcher must determine authority, accuracy, timeliness, and objectivity. The authority defines ...... middle of paper ...... university online library database. Articles can be searched based on academic journals, publications and full texts. The Google search engine was found to be the least useful for finding information. The first website to emerge was Wikipedia, known for generating information based on Internet searches. Additionally, through Google search, most of the websites that appeared were blogs or sites where people express their opinions on the topic. Completing the research project changed my outlook on how to search for articles based on the topic I'm interested in. Before completing the research project, I never used a thesaurus to expand the keyword list to find articles using alternative but similar words. I have used a library database over the past few years to obtain information on research projects and articles, which has allowed me to become familiar with the library database..