For this assignment, you might need several types of sources:
Source Type | Start Here |
Scholarly Articles |
The library databases, see recommendations below, use advanced search to find books also (just change the search to everything) |
Journalism/News | Google, specific news sites, or the UT Libraries NexisUni database. Make sure to evaluate unfamiliar publications. |
Organizations, social media posts, other sources | Google, be very careful with what questions you use these to help you answer |
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 |
Background and overviews
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Scholarly Articles (mostly)
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.
Has over 1.8 million individual records, some dating back to 1887, and includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.
News/Journalism
Google Search Tips:
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This video, from RMIT University, explains what a database is...
If you don’t see a .pdf of the article you want, click to find it in another database or in print in the Libraries.
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