Remember that research refines your understanding of a topic based on a wide variety of sources and helps you to define key questions in on-going scholarly conversations.
Use Google Scholar to see how a topic is researched by many disciplines; be sure to set up UND Library Links.
While exploring research on your topic using Google Scholar, you can see how your topic can be narrowed down to various subtopics, you can see what aspects of your topic is discussed in current sources, and you can see what you still might want to learn about your topic.
English 130 Topics are multidisciplinary, which means there are many academic disciplines studying the issue. Try Google Scholar to see a wide selection of research all at once. Make sure you set the UND library links!
Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
A Narrower Search Tool such as a subject specific database will help you identify subject experts and "listen in" on their conversations more easily than general databases. Use the Databases A-Z link below:
The Library website search is great for locating a specific article or book the library owns:
By now, you should have an understanding of how to use databases and search engines to find articles. Now we want to go over how to work with these articles that you've found. This video explains strategies of how to go about reading these articles, as well as how to use articles to find further resources.
After watching the video, try this hands-on activity.