A while ago, when I was searching for an article for my previous research, I didn’t realize I did it the ‘wrong way’ until way later. The whole purpose of getting articles (online) is to get more sources which provide an outside perspective to your subject.
Wanting just that, I was looking for a place to start, a very broad place. So broad, in fact, that I just ended up looking for it on Google. It wasn’t until I saw the video that I realized I should’ve found the source in a scholarly journal in some database. Maybe that’s just the way my brain is wired to think. When I want to find information, I will levitate towards Google rather than a scholarly database. I obviously have to fix that bad habit, but that is not to say what I found was bad.
What I found was a collection of articles about student life during the Cold War era at the University of Illinois. It is a part of their library website, and rather than providing an ‘over arching view’ it provides a ‘comparative view’ to which I can contrast or find similarities across different student bodies.
So while I didn’t necessarily encounter any blocks during that research, the video tutorial did help me to be aware of what to look at and how to look for it.