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<\/a>This assignment has three parts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Literature Search Strategies Exercise (1)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Journal Exercises (2)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Research Examples (6)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Literature Search Strategies Exercise (1):<\/h5>\n

    The Assignment:\u00a0<\/strong>Use from 5 to 10 different search strategies to locate citations from the scholarly literature on your research topic. \u00a0Do not include popular magazines, chat sites, newspapers, or miscellaneous Internet rants. \u00a0Find information relevant to your research topic in journals, books, and other work by serious scholars. Consult the\u00a0Literature Search Strategy Exercise <\/a>\u00a0form for detailed instructions.\u00a0 You should provide the following for each of the 10 citations<\/p>\n

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      1. \u00a0A brief description of the search strategy you used.<\/li>\n
      2. \u00a0A full academic citation for the source, using a citation form acceptable to your academic discipline. (Click HERE for a guide to citation styles.<\/a>)<\/li>\n
      3. \u00a0A brief description of the source you found using the strategy.<\/li>\n
      4. Tell how you determined that this was a credible source.<\/li>\n
      5. Identify whether the evidence found is reported in the primary, secondary, or tertiary\u00a0literature and how you determined this. (See the Literature Search Exercise Guide<\/a>\u00a0for details.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        NOTE: searching online journal indexes is just one strategy. For example, you can\u2019t treat searching ProQuest and searching JSTOR as two separate strategies, even though they are something different. On the other hand, searching online journals and searching physical journals does count as two strategies, because the latter lets you skim an issue\u2019s Table of\u00a0Contents\u2014bringing you face to face with articles that an online search would not automatically reveal.<\/p>\n

        Ten good strategies, well done, earns you an \u201cA\u201d; eight good strategies, well done, earns you at most a \u201cB\u201d; six good strategies, well done, earns you at most a \u201cC\u201d. It takes at least five good strategies, well done, to pass.<\/em><\/p>\n

        Be sure to consult the\u00a0\u00a0one-page handout on 20 Literature Search Strategies\u00a0(CC)<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a095kb PDF file, revised 1\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

        I highly recommend Mike Caulfield’s\u00a0“Web Literacy for Students”<\/a>\u00a0— an online (open-access) book about fact-checking the Internet.\u00a0 It helps you separate the gold from the dross.<\/p>\n

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        \u00a0Journal Exercises<\/strong>\u00a0(2) and\u00a0<\/span>Research Examples (6)<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h5>\n

        The Journal Exercises and Research Examples are essentially the same, except that:<\/p>\n