Chapter 4 in Everything's an Argument lists what exactly facts, statistics, surveys, and interviews are. Although surveys aren't really relevant to my research paper, interviews and statistics are. Later on in the chapter it refers to how many people make mistakes with assumptions, and reminds us to use good judgement when collecting data for papers. The paragraph on the degree of an argument was enlightening as I do tend be one of those people that asks for example, "Well Subway has subs for 5 bucks, so Quiznos should too." Chapters 16 and 19 was nothing new as what counts as evidence/sources was covered in the library demonstration/The Bedford Researcher as was the ability to evaluate the credibility of sources.
Needless to say its always good to have a book as a fall back example in case you are uncertain about your sources.
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