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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading