The Internet is an excellent tool for arranging holidays, shopping, banking, communicating with friends and finding information
- however should you be relying the internet to find information for your assignments?

Yes
    -  good for hot topics that have not yet had time to appear in
       the literature
    -  good for finding reports, documents and other publications
       from professional/organisational websites
    -  good for finding information on companies from their websites
    -  Google Scholar is a useful search engine which allows you to
       confine your search to academic literature only
    -  Scirus is also an academic search engine aimed at science and
       health students

But...
   -  vast quantities can make it hard to extract relevant information
   -  much information you will find can be of poor quality (not
       scholarly)
   -  need to distinguish the good from the bad