Look at it from the teacher's point of view. One of the reasons for an information-gathering assignment is to give practice in research, and possibly to allow the teacher to tell which are the lazy or stupid students. When I did them, I was expected to give a description of the methods I used, the sources I found, and also a reflection on what I had learned. E.g I went to the library and looked in the Dewey catalog(ue) under Computing. I found the category [etc]. I further found subcategory [etc]. I found a number of books in stock and requested [etc]. I discovered that the Williams Tube was one of the first random-access memory devices used in early electronic digital computers. [etc] It worked by [etc]. It had a capacity of nnn binary bits [etc etc]. An example of the type of program run on this computer was one to calculate [etc]. Blah blah blah. I learned [whatever]. That's how you got an A. How you got a D or worse was "This is what a guy told me on a forum."
