Searching and Researching Effectively

As a college student, it is necessary that you know the best way to search for documents or websites so that you can get the best for the paper you are writing. When it comes to searching for web sites the best is Google. In my opinion Google offers better pages and more pages than other search sites. Also, you can use advanced search in order to reduce the amount of pages you are looking for. You can add facets, languages, domains and other criteria that you are looking for in the page you are searching for.

When it comes to finding other documents such as scholarly articles and journals, it is good to use something like worldcat. This is a site that contains scholarly material and eBooks. Google is good to search anything. But there is less hassle when you use something like worldcat because you do not have to search through unnecessary material. Through worldcat it is easier to see the containing material of a document by just reading the abstract. If you feel the article suits your paper, you can either read it or download the file to your computer. The best thing is to add keywords and other search criteria in order to reduce the amount of documents you get. If the amount of articles you get for your search criteria is between 10-50, in my opinion, it is the best number.

Make use of advance search and scholarly article databases! Good Luck!

Sachinda Liyanaarachchi

One thought on “Searching and Researching Effectively

  1. I agree that Google is great search engine for websites, and scholarly articles and journals are easier to identify with databases. It is interesting to note that you consider an appropriately narrowed search to yield between 10 and 50 articles. That’s a good observation!

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