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Giving Google Scholar A Try

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Liza

After reading about Google Scholar in Research Strategies and then seeing it in action in class, I decided to give Google Scholar a shot. I find it ironic that a search engine that is known to provide  users with the most … Continue reading →

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Research Journal #2

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Ian Pei

Using the search engines have been very useful after knowing how to input the keywords I need. However, I am finding difficulty on which documents to use and how to incorporate them into my research paper. There is so much … Continue reading →

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Research Journel: Searching

Posted on March 25, 2012 by egonzalez

One issue I encountered while searching for scholarly articles through Google Scholar is that I kept encountering the pay wall. It would be convenient if they added the option to exclude or include articles that must be paid for. A … Continue reading →

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Search Engines

Posted on March 25, 2012 by itohanedoloyi

Well, when I’m using Google to search for information pertaining to my research question, I find it easier to use shortcuts such as parentheses, truncation, and phrase searching because your results are shorten and you’ll end up getting exactly what you … Continue reading →

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Search Engines

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Guzman Kiara

While researching on my topic on Google scholar, I found a lot of useful information that can help me. But it does put you throw trouble because you have to know what exact key words to use yo find the … Continue reading →

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging for Monday, March 26

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Anne Leonard

Today we got a late start because of the mysterious fire alarm, and in the time remaining discussed advanced internet searching and specialized search engines for scholarly content, such as Google Scholar, CiteSeer, Scirus, and Microsoft Academic. I hope you … Continue reading →

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Research Topic

Posted on March 20, 2012 by cruzanthonymark

Creating and catering a research topic from a list of what the class has discussed over the past few weeks is a daunting task and intimidating knowing that I will be stuck with what I pick for the rest of … Continue reading →

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Research Topic

Posted on March 19, 2012 by darren732

  Not as easy as it sounds when you have to make it as narrow as possible. During this past week I have centered mine around piracy and copyright law. Yet it is a wide subject and filtering and changing … Continue reading →

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Research Topics

Posted on March 19, 2012 by mbottaro

I didn’t know it was going to be this hard to find an interesting research topic.  We have discussed so many different topics and yet it is still very difficult to choose.  I’ve decided to look back on every assignment … Continue reading →

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RESEARCH TOPIC MY “NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK.”

Posted on March 19, 2012 by ragoo8111

Finding my research topic has ,I admit really been a challenge to me . I have been exposed to so much information lately. All of which has been equally beneficial to me. Badke offers me some sort of formula through … Continue reading →

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