RA Interview

For this blog post, I decided to interview my RA on my floor in Center Pointe Suites. Her name is Tia and she is a junior here at West Georgia. She said that she is familiar with research papers and has done a good bit throughout High School and College. I first asked what types of sources her professors required her to use and she said, “That professors usually allow any credible source excluding Wikipedia”. She has never been allowed to use Wikipedia on a research paper and never will. She also used some other well-known sources such as, Galileo and Noodlebib. I then asked Tia how she found her sources, and she said “I found my sources using Google, and many times used well-known sources like, CNN. Less popular websites did not seem as credible or trustworthy”. She learned to always look at when the website was last updated and to make sure there is always an author. I then asked Tia if throughout her college years if her research paper requirements have changed from when she was in her first semester of college. Tia said, “When I was a freshman the research paper subjects were much broader and much easier to find more information. As I’ve gotten into my major, my research paper topics have become much more specific, which causes me to search more in depth for credible and reliable information”.  She had t change her research strategies a bit because she had to use more sources than just the internet. She also had to start using more books as sources, as well.