Searching databases is different than searching Google. Distil what you're looking for into a few key terms or phrases, rather than whole sentences.
Key Concepts |
immigrant students | academic achievement | policy debates |
Related Terms |
undocumented students (more specific) immigrants
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learning academic performance achievement (more general) success academic success |
public debate policy ideas policy proposals attitudes (more general/related) negative attitudes positive attitudes |
For this assignment, you might need several types of sources:
Source Type | Start Here |
Scholarly Articles |
The Library Databases, see recommendations below |
Reports from think tanks and government agencies |
Google or on a specific site (like the one for the Brooking Institution). Use recommendations and Google Search Tips below. Make sure to evaluate potential sources. |
Journalism/News | Google or the UT Libraries NexisUni database. Make sure to evaluate unfamiliar publications. |
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Also includes more than 107,000 full text non-journal documents indexed by the ERIC database. Approximately one-half of the entries in the ERIC database are to ERIC documents. Microfiche copies of ERIC documents, including those prior to 1996, are in the Collections Deposit Library (CDL) Microforms Collection at MCFICHE 4913.
Google Search Tips:
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This video, from RMIT University, explains what a database is...
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