What I do when I research...

First, I open the internet and go to google.com. Yahoo used to be my favorite, but since Google became popular, I have switched my favorite search engines. I usually type in a few keywords of what I am researching. Several links will come up, most of the time, and the top four or five links are usually the ones that give me the most useful information. I try to stay away from Wikipedia. I know that most of that information is probably correct, but I do not like to risk having incorrect information. I rarely ever use encyclopedias anymore. Actually, I have not used an encyclopedia since middle school or early high school. I do, however use textbooks from my classes to help with my research. They make good references in the works cited section. I will occasionaly go to the library and do the "old fashioned" research.