I work as an online writer so the majority of the research that I do during the course of any given day is all done online. The Internet is a great resource for finding out the basics of almost any topic under the sun. And there are some topics that are actually easier to research online than they are in person. However, I’ve recently been reminded that there are other topics that really require more in-depth research than what you can get on the Internet.

I spent the past two weeks as a research assistant to a college student who is trying to complete a grad school paper on cost segmentation. He has to put together a complete analysis of the role that cost segmentation services play in society. This requires getting together graphs with information related to cost seg statistics. I assumed that I would be able to assist with this research by looking online but it turned out that this information just isn’t readily available on the Internet.

When doing in-depth reporting on a topic like this where detailed research information is required, it becomes necessary to go to the source of the statistics that are being released. There may be summaries of these statistics available online but the actual data isn’t going to be available on the Internet. It turns out that the Internet isn’t good for everything after all!

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