What Is Research and Why Should I Use It

People are surrounded by research and statistics to persuade them without even realizing it. While watching TV, you may see a commercial that claims an allergy medicine is recommended by "4/5 doctors." That is research. Research is information that will help us support a point. In this case, the point is to buy a specific allergy medicine. Hearing that the majority of doctors recommend it is a great strategy for using research to persuade the public.
This also shows that research makes us better consumers. Not only of products, but of information and research as well. News stories and media coverage use research to back up their stories; we must have a knowledge of research to understand this.
People should always use research when persuading because it provides a solid, unbreakable background of information which supports an idea. This makes the person seem reliable and their point comes on much stronger, and people are much more likely to want to be persuaded.

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I visit the website Facebook on a regular basis. It is a useful website to me because it keeps me updates on the lives of my friends and families. Although some things on it aren't credible, it allows me to see what everyone is doing and plan events. It is very helpful with keeping in touch with friends from high school and even furthering new friendships. 

I've always found the website Wikipedia to be unbelievable and to lack credibility. This is because people can edit posts and add pretty much whatever they want. Although Wikipedia will censor out the outrageously unbelievable information, not everything is caught and false facts are too easy to come across. I have had personal experiences where I'm doing research, stumble across Wikipedia, and find very untrue information that conflicts with various reliable websites or biographies. I even had a friend log onto Wikipedia once and change the information of an important date in time to something completely unrelated as a joke. Although Wikipedia deleted it, the information was up for an hour and a variety of people could've seen it.