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Anyway, I spent about six hours going through four books about the history of Florence. These massive books were too specfic and for the life of me couldn't find the general outline to get a grasp on the situation.
Anyway, my twenty minute presentation is now based on a Florence web-site (Tourist Guide to Florence) with some nuggets from the books and general knowledge.
The internet for the win.
Anyway, I spent about six hours going through four books about the history of Florence. These massive books were too specfic and for the life of me couldn't find the general outline to get a grasp on the situation.
Anyway, my twenty minute presentation is now based on a Florence web-site (Tourist Guide to Florence) with some nuggets from the books and general knowledge.
The internet for the win.
If you don't include books printed from the 1930s based on an author's biast account in which 50% is out dated and only about 10% is relevant to your question then it is deemed you haven't researched enough.
> The internet's far better for researching then books. What takes an
> hour using books can take literally 5 minutes on the net.
The old style can be uselful if in an essay I'm being asked about some policy in 18th century Paris but as with tomorrow it is useless when asked something over hundreds of years.
Doing an CG animation based dissertation is a pain in the butt as there are precious few books on the subject and not that much of a history (relatively) to research.
Not TOO much of a problem until you consider that universities don`t really rate internet research and only pop for "academic writings". If anyone can find an academic writing about "how no-one respects the new star wars movies because they had no reson to care about the cg characters (gungans, clone troopers etc), whereas at least stormtroopers were stuntmen in suits" kinda thing then please, let me know.