Today we spent time searching scholarly resources on the internet and making use of the advanced search strategies we discussed a few weeks ago. On Wednesday, my colleague Prof. Nora Almeida will guest lecture on searching library catalogs and databases. Please read Badke Chapter 5 and review the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

Your research journal blog post prompt is based on today’s class activity. Please write one 100-word research journal blog post in response to this prompt:

In class today you tried out advanced search strategies and scholarly internet resources from the Badke reading to search for sources on your research topic. Describe one advanced strategy or scholarly resource you used. Did you find different information sources than you found doing a regular internet search (just using Google, Bing, etc.), and if so, how are they different? Did you encounter any difficulties that you haven’t encountered in a regular internet search?

Remember that the FINAL version of your topic proposal is due on Monday, March 30 and the Annotated Bibliography is due on Wednesday, April 1. Please get in touch with your questions…

~Prof. Leonard