After having looked for resources in books in the library, in the periodicals sectiona and in electronic journals, the next step is to run research on the internet. Internet offers a wide range of information, and it is sometimes very hard to find what are exactly looking for. Because it is most of the time free, people have the possibility to write whatever they like without referring to peer review. This might make the research process difficult because good and bad quality information are mixed and require from us the effort of untangling them. This is why the skill of evaluation is necessary to be successful while dealing with internet resources. Personally, my research on the net has been more or less fruitful. Of course, the majority of websites were either unreliable, irrelevant, or simply touristic and commercial offers concerning Turkey. However, I had the opportunity to identify ideas that would fit in my paper.
I think the internet search is helpful since it enables to have a lot of ideas in a shorter time. It offers a lot of details, and I would have needed to read every single page in the books to find more or less the same details. It is not that I deny the importance of books, but the issue of time is very important. Now I realize how hard writing a research paper was before the invention of the internet. People had to spend a lot of time to read books, take notes effectively because they might not have the opportunity to find those books again, and ultimately combine pieces of information. We are very lucky to have the Ctrl F function to help us go directly to the paragraph where the idea we are looking for is dicussed. But we are faced with another challenge which comes along with technology which is that of evaluation and a sense of criticism.