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Lets be honest.

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In all honesty, we all use Google as our primary source of dragging out information on something that interests us. The first couple of results always seem to have wikipedia. It works, and usually leads in the direction that we want. There isn’t anything wrong with doing this. If something written in one of the articles seems to be wrong, it can always be validated to be true or false through further digging. Of course there are biases. It’s really hard to find unbiased or neutral biases in almost anything where someone has an opinion on it. It’s human nature to have biases and have opinions. But to make out lives easier in an academic role, we use validated sources. The authors are usually experts in their field and try to have minimal biases.

More Knowledge

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During this past week using the laptops and searching with different strategies have shown me that there are many other ways to search in the computer, rather than only using Google, being that that is the only search engine I use. I’ve learned new websites and search strategies that would be more helpful to me for any future research project that  I would have. Its great that I found new ways to help me go beyond my way of searching in the internet and makes it easier for me to apply these new skills so that I can get better information.

More Advanced!! 11/11

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Over the past few weeks in this class I have learned helpful tips and tricks when it comes to research or even regular everyday searches. In reading Badke, I have learned new techniques to better my researching needs in library databases and not just depend on Google. I was introduced to and used the EBSCO databases in previous classes, but I have learned more ways to use it to my advantage. I, however, was not aware of Google Scholar. It is useful sometimes and I say sometimes because it can be as much of a headache as the regular Google search engine is.

Nice knowing you, Google

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Who knew that one day I  wouldn’t be as dependent on my lovely Google? I rely practically everything that I do online with Google. Instead of just typing a hyperlink on the search bar, I choose to rather Google which site I am trying to go to and just click it through there. However, now that I know there are better and more reliable sources through EBSCO host, etc., my days with Google have become shortened. Now with all the techniques I’ve learned through this class and with the professors we had this week, I can find more trustworthy, reliable information without the use of Google Scholar, something that I didn’t even know about before this class. I’ll probably take on for further research papers, term papers, etc.This is the end of my monogamous relationship with Google, hello EBSCO host and Academic Search Complete. Clearly, my knowledge in researching wasn’t as good as I had hoped…

New research tools.

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Samurai slash!!!

Samurai slash!!!

During the past two weeks my arsenal of research tools has been upgraded. I have previously used scholarly databases for other English classes. However by reading Badke, and learning about more databases in class, I have learned how to navigate these databases’ information much better. I am still just at the brink of this discovering how to find my way through all this scholarly territory. Using advance searching like rephrasing, time relevance, authors’ reliability, publishers’ credibility, the domain source, and relevance of the material I feel more confident in writing new papers for class or any future occupation. I have not yet searched library catalogs, but do have some knowledge on how to. I have to say playing the research game was a clever way to shed light on how much search criteria play a role in search results.

Happy researching.

Library Database > Google

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When I decided to research my topic, plagiarism, and it’s effects, it came as no surprise to me that what I would find would be two entirely different things. I decided to use my favorite internet search engine, Google, and the scholarly website provided by Professor Leonard, EBSCOhost. I searched on Google first and it came as expectedly, I got results about the definition of ‘plagiarism’. When I searched plagiarism and its effects, I was able to see a bit more. I then used the scholarly search and actually found articles that were relevant to my topic. I was able to find scholarly articles about plagiarism and the effects that correlate to it. However, Google was able to show me some scholarly articles but it had only shown me 6 scholarly articles. When I did the same search, plagiarism and its effects, on EBSCO, there were much more. This hadn’t been a surprising ‘adventure’ mainly because I’ve already tried this in class and found that the leading scholarly search provided me with actually evidence that could be used. Further on, any future research assignments I would not only use Google but instead also use one of the scholarly search engines that the school supplies us with.

Today’s summary, and assignments for Wednesday 10/30

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Today we discussed searching (and finding!) in library catalogs. We discussed the CUNY library catalog, the Library of Congress Classification Outline, WorldCat, and reviewed LibX, a browser add-on to make your searching more efficient.

On Wednesday, we’ll discuss searching in library databases. Please read Badke, chapter 5 (pp. 94-120). Since databases have great potential for your discover of relevant, high-quality scholarly sources, here is a quick preview:

Remember, the due date for the annotated bibliography is now Friday, November 1. Please email your assignment to me as an attachment by noon that day

Where to go?

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Using google, bing, or similar search engines, the information sources are there but so is useless pages of information. Using http://eric.ed.gov/, and google scholar, made searching for information much easier. It was more relevant to my topic also somewhat helped me narrow down my research topic, thou i still need to tweak the topic. Also using easybib made it easier for me to save some the sources instead of trying to recall what website the artlice was on, and spend countless of hours trying to find the website. Using websites like eric.ed.gov made it easier to narrow down my sources but also made it difficult to pick and choose which articles to use, since majority of the sources seemed relevant..

THAT CPU DOESNT SPEAK ENGLSIH

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As i do research i find my self repeatdly asking my self is this  relevent information for the paper and if so how and where can i get my point across. its so much information out there you can go on for days with things to say but making a valid point has dawned on me to be number one. i have a stradegy of just going to random pages and seeing what i find its timley but you find information that is not easily located neither is it easy on the eye .what are some tips that are making it easier? on you guys help would be great

And the search continues…

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Thanks to Badke, my online search for information has improved from I search for information in my earlier research papers that i have dealt with. But now the biggest obstacle for me is finding scholarly sources since this is my first time ever trying to find one. Also this is my first attempt to creating a annotated bibliography. I was not here last class but I am trying my best on where to find said scholarly sources. I Know i can find some through a website called JSTOR but I am not familiar with this website and i certainly dont want to subscribe to anything.