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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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Making the Most Out of Search Engines

Reading Chapter 10 of Research Strategies 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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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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Researching SOPA and Copyright Laws

Having read Badke’s words on picking a research topic, choosing SOPA and copyright laws could be equated to shooting my own foot (sorry. I just finished watching the Season Finale of The Walking Dead), since SOPA is a fairly recent … Continue reading

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Developing a good research question and topic

It took me a long time to find a topic that i would like to do research on for my research proposal topic project, i didn’t have a clue on what i wanted to write about at the time. We … Continue reading

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging for Monday, March 19

Today we discussed the research process, including needs assessment, preliminary strategies, and topic development. As you know, your research topic proposal is due next Wednesday — please get in touch if you want to discuss your ideas. On Monday 3/19, … Continue reading

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GIGO

  Search engines are a great tool for picking what we want from the mass of information that we call the internet yet we also must have a pretty good idea of what we are looking for. Improperly worded requests … Continue reading

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KeyWords

Reading Badke’s Chapter 3 brought up the question “Do you remember the first thing that you have ever googled?” Keywords is the key to getting the search results you want. As Badke state, if you use the wrong search technique … Continue reading

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Keywords and Databases

Reading Chapter 3 of Research Strategies was a refreshing break from the much more technical readings – while it’s nice to know the nitty-gritty of how search engines like Google and Bing work, the information from the two links was just … Continue reading

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Database Searching with Keywords and Hierarchies

Ever since I learned to punch keys on a computer, I always wondered how things were created to be read electronically. Taking programming class really gave me a better view on the binary language. In Chapter 3 of Badke’s novel, … Continue reading

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