Saturday, December 11, 2010

Close reading and research

Finding an article for my research started out being somewhat difficult because general terms brought up similar things that weren't really on the topic I was looking for. After using a few different versions of the same words I had been using I found it produced different results. Using the database finder I was able to get an article after a few uses of the old thesaurus. I still find Google to be more useful, my original broad terms brought me more results that I could have actually used including the one I picked from the database.

As for close reading, locating key points was as simple as looking for the word "blog" and reading the surrounding sentences. Does not really seem like a skill to me, you only need the ability to pick a key word you want to look for.

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