From your assignment: While your literacy narrative asked you to consider your own history with literacy in order to address the threshold concepts “Writing is a Process, and All Writers Have More to Learn” and “Writing is Impacted by Identities and Prior Experience,” this assignment asks you to choose a Bad Idea About Writing in order to engage in researched inquiry. The goal of this assignment is to help you better understand the threshold concept that “Writing Is Not Just Something People Do But Something People Study Through Inquiry” while also helping you develop your rhetorical reading skills and beginning to use the university library’s resources.
1. To search for an article within your selected journal, choose a Full Text Access option that leads to a database such as Gale Academic OneFile. Notice how the date ranges may be different in different databases. In Gale, we have coverage from 2021. In JSTOR, the coverage goes back to 1950!
2. To search within the journal choose a keyword from your reading and type it into the "Search Within Publication" search bar. Submit your search!
3. Use filters to narrow your results. Use “Search Within” to locate keyword matches within your search results.
4. Different journals may look different when you search them. However, the tools are similar. Let's look at searching the WAC Journal via the WAC Clearinghouse. Access is the same - click the link in the guide and click through to your resource. In this case, the link is labeled "EBSCO Open Access Journals." Use the search bar to look for your keywords at the top of the WAC Clearinghouse page.
If you are having trouble finding relevant results, or you are finding unexpected results, here are some tips to change your search to get better and different results.
1. If you have too many results, like in this search for First-Year Writers in the WAC Journal which gave us over 6500 results, consult your text for additional keywords that can narrow your results for more specific articles.
2. Adding the term writer's block reduced our result list by thousands.
3. If you are in an EBSCO journal, the Search Within option may be smaller, but it is there over the publication details!
4. Not enough results? Consult your text to find other words that may be similar to the word you chose. Use the combiner OR to broaden your search.
5. By adding freshmen or undergraduates to my search, I've increased my result list from 11 results to 95 results!
