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Second lesson! :)

Hello people! It's me again, updating my eir blog! Missed me? (Hahaha just kidding!) :D

During lessons today, we were told to choose a topic so that we can learn more about researching with it for our portfolio! It was really exciting because all of us were contemplating which topic to choose, out of the 22 topics available. At the same time, we had to try to avoid choosing the same topics as other classmates so that we won't be chose to do the first topic, which seems hard to me, hahaha! :/

Luck was on my side, because I got a topic that I wanted! :) The topic I've chosen was: "Discuss the causes and effects of volcanic eruptions on society". Frankly speaking, I was really exhilarated! I'm not a science person since young, but this topic really did appealed to me! Volcanic eruptions had always been a prominent issue, quoting an example of the eruption that occurred at Iceland just a few months back. This incident caught my attention because it actually created problems like delays and congestion at airport as aircrafts are unable to operate with the volcanic ash that hindered visibility. Everything that could relate itself to aviation is mostly interesting to me! :] Thus, I'm sure this topic would allow myself to spur even more motivation and enthusiasm while researching it! :D

This is a video of live footage of the Iceland Volcano I've just mentioned!

All of us began the initial stage of researching straight after choosing our topic! It was rather intriguing for me since I know nothing about volcanos in the first place! After studying for about 1 and a half years at TP, I thought I'm already quite good at researching, considering the projects that I've done throughout the past semesters! EIR made me realised I was completely wrong! Previously, all I did to get the information I wanted was to simply enter the topic that I want to know more about on Google and tada, I get the lists of things I needed. EIR proved that there were more to it! I got to know that different categorization of websites could provide me which different kinds of information, from the reliability of the author, to different perspectives provided by people!

To summarise, firstly, organizational websites tend to provide official information, very clear cut about the message they want to convey. This is my favourite category of websites because the reliability of the website is the highest. The last thing I would want while researching for anything is to get any information that is incorrect or unreliable.

Secondly, e-magazine/journal provides more of factual information, such as news articles with general statistics provided, and also professional opinions. Indeed, the reliability of these websites are pretty high as well, but then again, we all know that articles are capable of swinging in any way. Thus, this would not be my first choice during research.

Thirdly, blog! Blogs could be written by authors from all over the world! Just like you reading my blog, I'm the author of this blog as well! This brings me to the point that with different blogs, we're able to get different viewpoints and opinions from different people of various races, backgrounds and professions. This would be advantageous when we want to know people's thoughts about a certain topic or issue, but not when we want to obtain specific datas. Morever, there might be some form of confirmation bias by the author, so information might tend to be inaccurate in certain circumstances.

Lastly, discussion forums. I think that discussion forums and blogs are rather similar for the fact that people from all over the world can discuss about a common issue/topic. It's a great platform for netizens to voice out their opinions or views, while readers can either take their stand or simply take them as a reference.

That's my take on these different categories of websites! Feel free to leave your comments! :D Stay tuned for my next update on e-shopping spree!

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The name is Jing Yi, Sheron.
I'm 18 turning 19, birthday falls on 09April. I study in TP AMS P903, I wanna fly, to the ends of where the sky will finally lead to.

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