Read the five "useful rules" to follow on p. 94 in Mayfield's text.

For each rule, share an

example of how you implemented the rule in your life recently OR learned the lesson the

hard way.

1. Sufficient information provided

Have the link where they took the information and statistics

2. Verify the facts personally

Check to know what is written in the listed ref and statistics

3. Avoid implausible, discrepancies, or contradictions

4. Verify all facts even if from a trusted source

Check refs to make sure that whether it is right or not (in the whole research, not just in 1

part) even it was come from a professor.

5. Do additional research to verify information

Compare with other sources to see the consistency to make sure it is accurate and still

currently updated
 In the process of writing an essay or doing research, I prefer taking the journal that have

the references of where the author took the information. For example, I would choose the

article called “One step at a time: how to improve mental health through fitness” in The

Guardian journal (Kale, 2019) for my informative essay in the course ENG 102. The

reason is that the author mentioned sites that he took the result about positive effects of

doing exercises with mental health which are the researches from JAMA Psychiatry

(Karmel W.C, Chia Y.C, Murray B.S, 2019) and Taylor & Francis online (Knapen, 2015)

for readers to verify the information. After seeing these references, I would click into

them by myself to see whether the result brought into the original article was reliable or

not. In lieu of just checking one reference, I repeated the above action for all sources

mentioned in the article to verify all information. If it existed some implausible details,

discrepancies, or contradictions in these references, I would not accept these facts and

avoid mentioning them in my essays. Finally, I even do the additional research with some

journals about that topic by myself to make sure that the knowledge is accurate (like the

journal called “Exercise for Mental Health” according to Ashish, Vishal, & Frederick,

(2006) ) and still updates at the present.

Reference

Ashish Sharma, Vishal Madaan, Frederick D.P. (2006). Exercise for mental health. NCBI.

Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/

Kale, S. (2019). One step at a time: how to improve mental health through fitness. The

Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/02/one-

step-at-a-time-exercise-mental-health
Karmel W.C, Chia Y.C, Murray B.S. (2019, January 23). Assessment of bidirectional

relationships between physical activity and depression among adults. JAMA Network

Home. Retrieved from https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-

abstract/2720689

Knapen, J. (2015). Exercise therapy improves both mental and physical health in patients

with major depression. Taylor & Francis Online. Retrieved from

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09638288.2014.972579