Tompkins Article

This article was very interesting to read because it tells about a very common problem that many people run into when writing a research paper. The problem was that Tompkins kept getting conflicting information. She was trying to write an essay on the European-Indian relations in the 17th century, but every source had a different account of what happened. She looked into the information from several different authors, and even after that she was still not comfortable with the information she had gotten.

To solve this problem she decided to piece the information together as best as she could. There were some sources that she knew she couldn’t believe at all, there were others that she could partially believe, and then some that she thought was mostly right. She decided what to use based on what she knew to be reasonably correct, given what she already knew about it.

I think the biggest problem that I am going to run into with my research is deciding which articles give me the best information. Most articles on “pet therapy” give a lot of real life examples, and not a lot of information on the subject itself. I think I am going to have to contact organizations for pet therapy. So I know how to hopefully solve my problem, but it will be time consuming! :)