If you head over to Jaye's Blahg you'll see her latest post has to with the expertise one gains in certain areas from doing research for writing.
After reading this I got to thinking more about research.
So here's a poll question for you -
What are your favorite sources to use when you do research?
Vocabulary Word of the Day:
VISCERAL - adj.- Perceived in or as if in the viscera (guts); profound; instinctive
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I'm famous! Thanks for the link. I think Wikipedia is a wonderful jumping off point for basic research. Obviously, if you need hard facts you need to double check. But it's a great quick reference.
I thank the internet gods every day for Google.
I'm with Jaye. Wikipedia is a great starting point.
We are really spoiled with the internet. A Google search usually unearths a ton of information. Libraries must be really lonely places (except where they keep the computers hooked up to the internet).
I'll second that.
During translating a text from Hungarian to English, I hooked up with one specific word.
I had two versions, but was unsure about the first.
I typed into Google and got 4-5 results, mostly for Asian sites. I typed in the second and got thousands of scores.
In the translation I went with the second version.
Yeah, there is so much information at our fingertips. It's convenient and wonderful, but makes me feel a little spoiled. I get scared that with so much freely given us we will become a people who feel justifiably entitled to anything we can get our hands on.
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