A description of my research process:
a) Knowing that I can find some related information if I find the correct wording input. I first visited the Academic Search Premier.
b) I traveled to the LexisNexis site as it provided previous information to my topic, but the difficulty behind this site is specific phrases are hard to find. Moreover, as useful information as it is, the documents that LexisNexis provides are world wide therefore making it difficult to find specific American articles.
c) I used terms such as "teen employment", "part time employers", "teen summer jobs"
d) I tried to scan the articles and quickly paraphrase these articles, but I used the evaluative technique in differences in periodicals.
e) I revisited previous research logs and took phrases-key words that allowed me to redefine my search.
Research Sources List:
| Hardworking teenagers The Toronto Star, May 28, 2007 Monday, EDITORIAL; Pg. AA06, 290 words The summer job grooms teens for adulthood: Volunteering also good National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada), June 17, 2006 Saturday, FINANCIAL POST: WEEKEND; Pg. FW8, 665 words, Vera Ovanin, Financial Post Teens dive into job market St. Petersburg Times (Florida), April 21, 2006 Friday, NORTH PINELLAS TIMES; Pg. 1, 1000 words, TRACIE REDDICK I chose these because they deal in specific detailed to my topic. Some of these contain good information but it was hard to find these articles. In each source, I found statistical numbers, facts and opinions on the idea that directly involves into student development as an adult in the work force. | |
 I identified information the type of periodical, and most of the types I found them to be scholarly/research. These articles are well developed by educators and have taken time to be researched.I found that there is an increase of student workers, more importantly during the summer time. The summer period, research has documented that teens rush and decide to keep such jobs for their own benefit. Some teens want summer jobs to earn cash for cars, clothes and CDs. Others want to learn job skills they can parlay into rewarding careers. | |
Is it possible that low paying jobs seek teenagers?
Do minorities teenagers have a bigger presence in the work force?
Another database that I can use which would allow me to get a greater in depth knowledge is the Google Scholar. This site allows for more articles although some articles can be fake or pointless. Therefore, I will have to become cautious and use the information learned from the class to find mature and scholarly articles.
1 comment:
In Lexis-Nexis, if you enter words rather than phrases, you will likely get better results. In looking at some of your results, it looks as if you found something there.
In terms of finding American articles, if that's what you want, you can go to the "Power Search" tab and engage in a more sophisticated search. You can choose between "Terms and Connectors" and "Natural language," which is the selection between "structured" language and "natural" language. The difference is that these structured language terms are a different set of terms than you find in the catalog. They're not Library of Congress.
You can also click on the "Select Sources" drop down box and choose "U.S. Newspapers and Wires." That will limit your search to articles that are reported in U.S. sources, which would narrow it down at least a little.
The other alternative is to use "United States" or "U.S." or "America" or "American" as one of your search terms. On the one hand, you'll limit your results to articles that discuss the U.S. On the other hand, you may cause some relevant articles to be excluded if those articles don't happen to name this country anywhere in the searched portion of the article. It's a trade-off, but it's generally a good one.
From your posting, I gather than you searched two general databases, but no discipline-specific database, such as the GPO Monthly catalog, a government documents catalog from the Government Printing Office. That would allow you to search for some statistical sources. Another possibility is to look at Sociological Abstracts for information about this topic.
I also sense that you didn't search the web at all, which was another part of the assignment.
You also say at the end that you would search Google Scholar. While it acts like a database, it's really a search engine. If set up to search CSUEB as well as WorldCat, you'd find you were searching all the databases in our collection. As for articles that are "fake" or "Pointless," that might apply to Google, but it wouldn't apply to Google Scholar, which contains what CSUEB pays to access or items that are in WorldCat, which items are purchased or rented by various libraries and cataloged.
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