To complete this assignment, review the document below. Type your essay response

To complete this assignment, review the document below. Type your essay response into a separate document, and when you complete it, upload the file
When conducting research, familiarity with your research options can reduce your need to research how to research before you research and can make you less susceptible to gathering and spreading falsehoods. Unfamiliarity with research tools divides your concentration between figuring out the tool and assessing the information that tool connects you with — and when you are researching, you need most of your attention focused on determining the credibility of sources and examining the accuracy of the information contained in those sources.
One way to familiarize yourself with research tools is to just try them out. There are many, but you can loosely group them into categories. New tools and new categories continue to arise, but as you gain proficiency with the currently available tools, you will be better prepared to manipulate new tools as they become available.
The categories of research tool you will work with in your first Research Response assignment include:
search engines
library catalogs
databases
peer-reviewed journals
librarians
Within each of these categories there are many individual tools. They share similarities, but they often have different personalities and have the potential to take you to different information, either through access or algorithm.