Module 6: Searching and Researching Blog

College writing is synonymous with academic writing. It’s the kind of writing that requires more than just writing for the sake of having an organized essay, determining right or wrong answers, et cetera. As college students, we often deal with research questions, i.e. questions that typically have no clear-cut answers. Writing a research paper demands us to search for credible sources like journal articles to help us address the question that we’ve posed. There are different ways and techniques we can use to search for an article, books, and other related documents. After that, we needs to evaluate the reliability, quality, and utility of the source that we’re interested in before citing it in our paper. This step has to be taken seriously if we were to produce a good paper. What I find particularly useful in this week’s module is how we can conduct a more efficient and productive search for primary or secondary sources. Knowing search engine basics and how to do specific searches, for examples, is very helpful to expand our capability of searching for documents online. Apart from that, Boolean logic is fantastic. It’s especially very handy for people who are researching on a topic by giving them a method to find related articles with just a few keywords. The video “Searching with Boolean Operators” (Link) greatly explains the basics of Boolean operators that we can utilize. I encourage everyone, particularly college students to learn Boolean operators. It’s a great way to start your search for credible sources.

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  1. Hey Sahal! You seem very familiar with Boolean logic! Even after watching that video, and asking a few friends, I’m pretty confused. It’s impressive!

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