For your final paper in this course, you need to write a 6-8 page paper that incorporates at least ten sources, five of which need to be 'lengthy academic sources'.
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Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
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You can start off your search very broadly.
After you look through your results - use limiters on the left to limit to peer reviewed journals and by language, if needed - use keywords you are seeing in your results to investigate narrower aspects of your topic. In the below case, I am investigating how democracy was influenced by intellectuals.
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