Blog Post #6 - MHH 14

After reading chapter 14, “Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources”, I learned the difference between popular and scholarly sources and how they can help me research my topic, which is on the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). These “popular sources” are informal works that are relatively short and not peer-reviewed. Therefore, when I first started my research on the MCAT I used popular sources to get a general view of all the important information that I wanted to focus on. Then, when I figured out the main points I started to use scholarly sources because they are peer-reviewed and written by experts, therefore, more accurate.