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journal entry #2 – joey

Posted on November 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

In classes I have taken before writing a research paper has been hard especially when it comes to finding good quality research.  Throughout this class many techniques of finding research have been given to us in order to find it.  Some of the things I have already used in order to find different research for different classes but finding research for my topic has been very difficult.  I thought it would be a breeze because of the studies we did to find research but as I learned more the research found wasn’t good enough and I really didn’t think it would be this time consuming.

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Hw Journal 2_Miguel olivares

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During the past few lectures, I have really discovered some new useful techniques on how to find adequate information on the web. I think the most helpful of them all was Google scholar. I hadn’t heard of it until we covered it in class and I kind of wish it hadn’t taken me so long to discover it. I also didn’t know that we could put in a request for a specific article at the school library if I can’t get access to it on my own. I’ve also become more selective when clicking on links or choosing an article to get information from. Things like the domain, author’s credentials and whether it’s something that has been updated or revised are some of the things that I now tend to look at more than I ever did before.

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Hw Journal 2

Posted on November 18, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Through out these past lectures on how to make a better research process, has been helpful. There is more easier strategies that I have learned in order to evaluate sources in any format, and why is important. The keys for internet searching, l and how to use the settings of ibrary catalogs including other databases. Before taking this course I would use the city tech library catalogs but after the lecture we had in using this kind of source was helpful. I would not use the settings right to better find what I was looking for, which made it stressful to find the close enough information related to my topic. Doing a annotated bibliography was my first experience and I would probably take my time to do outside of this course because I feel the sources included in the research paper are important. Summarizing the sources reminds us more of the topic and helps us stay in topic for our research paper to make sense with proper academic information.

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