Welcome to the WR 122 research guide with libarary search activites. The following four activies are designed to walk you through the research process starting with brainstorming keywords followed by finding web based articles and peer review articles. By the end, you should have a minimum of six possible articles on you discourse community. You will record you answers in your journal as you complete these activities.
To the right are links to schedule an appointment with the Writing Center and to Request an in-person or Zoom meeting with a librarian (if needed).
If you have any questions, please contact me: Robert Monge - Instruction Librarian at: monger@wou.edu
ACTIVITY #1: BRAINSTORMING KEYWORDS FOR DISCOURSE COMMUNITY TOPIC
This activity discusses the types of research you will come across looking for information on your discourse community. The activity focuses on how to brainstorm keywords based on your discourse community.
ACTIVITY #2: FINDING THREE FANTASTIC WEB RESOURCES
This activity discusses the impact of Generative A.I. on web search results included best practices for using these new features. Two additional search techniques are also discussed. The activity focuses on finding three web articles you could use in your research.
ACTIVITY #3: FINDING THREE ARTICLES WITH GOOGLE SCHOLAR
This activity discusses the advantages of using the Google Scholar link from the library to find three peer reviewed academic articles as well as using advance techniques like the Cited By feature and getting the MLA/ APA citation for the articles.
ACTIVITY #4: FINDING ADDITIONAL ARTICLES WITH EBSCO DATABASES
This activity discusses how to search all EBSCO databases at once for articles on your discourse community and get the MLA/APA citation for articles.
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