Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Week 4 - Finding Articles

Finding Articles

This weeks research led me to some expand in to some other areas of my topic from another perspective that I hadn’t considered before.  Many other new sources are coming up that it seems now I will have plenty of information at my fingertips.   It been hard picking specific resources to primarily draw against, however its better than not finding anything I suppose. 

Some of the new search strategies I used were attempts at the new search engines that the Badke text cites for journal and article research.   However, this week I was honing my skills at using the hierarchy methods more.   I went back to the Leatherby Library to search journals and was having a hard time searching for journal entries.   In the end, I went back to the Discovery Search Engine to explore using the hierarchy methods and was able to find what I was looking for.   It seems to work for me, probably because its something we might tend to do when googling something often in the past.   Nevertheless, it works much better when researching on the current search engines that we have been learning about. 

At this point in the research I feel I’ve learned a lot about my topic already.   If you remember from my previous blog posts, this is a topic that I wanted to learn about because it was personal to me: ‘Small Business Triumphs and Downfalls Since the 2008 Recession’, and as I dive farther in to research, it will be interesting to see what other learning angles will come up.  


No comments:

Post a Comment