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CTLA02: Green Path Program

Start Your Research

1.  Select academic sources on your topic from your assignment hand-out.  

  • Example article: 
    • Li, S., & Zizzi, S. (2018). A case study of international students’ social adjustment, friendship development, and physical activity. Journal of International Students, 8(1), 389–408. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1134317

2.   Find full-text of the articles you selected.  

3.  Check the reference list (bibliography) of each article you selected to look for more sources on your topic.  Find full-text copies of these articles. 

4.  Want to find more sources on your topic?   Look up any relevant sources in Google Scholar.   Check "Cited by" and "Related articles."

Example article:  

select cited by and related articles to find more articles in google scholar

Find More Articles

Search the following popular databases for more sources on your topic.  Look for full-text buttons or links (e.g. "PDF", "Full-text", "Get IT") to download any articles you find on your topic.   

Example Search:

I want to research how culture shock affects international students at university.

"culture shock" AND "international students" AND (university OR college OR "higher education")

Search Tips:
  • Keyword:   Choose the main ideas from your topic e.g. culture shock, international students, university
  • Phrase Searching " ":   Type phrases in quotation marks e.g.  "culture shock", "international students"
  • AND:   Use AND to focus your search e.g. "culture shock" and "international students" and university
  • OR:   Use OR to expand your search. e.g. university or college or "higher education
  • Limiters:  Use limiters on the left of your search results (e.g. "Scholarly Journals", "Publication Date" etc.)

 

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Are your sources scholarly?

Scholarly sources are...

  • written by experts for a specialized audience
  • discusses or analyzes original research
  • contain technical jargon and disciplione specific vocabularly
  • cite and document resources used
  • usually published in a peer reviewed journal or an edited academic book

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