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FROM LAB COATS TO ME “An amateur’s guide to researching.”

This spring break can go down in history as one of the most burdensome ones. I was multi-tasking on so many different fronts. It then climaxed with a visit to the hospital to obtain not so good news. I foolishly … Continue reading

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realizations

As this semester flies by in addition to continuing this research essay, I feel that I have learned a lot. Not just how to properly research, but time management when it comes to researching, media and what it has become, … Continue reading

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Making the Most Out of Search Engines

Reading Chapter 10 of Research StrategiesĀ has been quite refreshing, especially since the research paper has been far from my mind with the brief vacation that we’ve had. I feel like I need to revise my outline in order to properly … Continue reading

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In the Know

Over all i’d say a learned some valuable tools in the past few weeks. This sort of surprised me, not because I thought I knew everything but, because I found out how much I didn’t know. So here’s a brief … Continue reading

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Advanced Searching

Throughout these classes, I’ve learned how to become better at researching. The whole concept of researching a topic and being able to Ā manipulate search engines to get the exact results you’re looking for was something I enjoyed learning this class … Continue reading

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Badke Appendix 1

Once my research question came to mind, the hardest thing to begin is an outline. Writing a few scribbles and jotting down a few ideas and personal knowledge related to my question did not make the outline come about, it … Continue reading

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Searching

Iā€™ve often wondered how Googleā€™s results were ordered, as Iā€™ve sometime notice that the results at top arenā€™t necessarily the most relevant to my search and sometimes results towards the middle or bottom of the page are. Now that I … Continue reading

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Research Journal Library Database vs Search Engine

  One immediate and obvious difference between an internet search engine and a library database is the ā€œso calledā€ amount of results. When I searched ā€œe-book academic usageā€ on Google 210,000,000 hits came up, much too many for me to … Continue reading

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searching keywords

Looking up sources for the research paper, I initially would check google and major search engines. Ā However as it turns out, when it comes to research material for a paper, you have to use a scholarly journal database search engine. … Continue reading

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Search Engines. You choose.

Ok so when it comes to me researching a topic; I automatically type in google.com and start from there. I usually try to stick to the first page of results because I find those to actually be the best results … Continue reading

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