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Popular Search Research Paper

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College Libraries and online databases are a very essential part of a college courses curriculum, rather they are traditional as well as non traditional students. The online database can offer you thinks like Scholarly Journals, which will be explained in this paper. This paper will also explain what popular searches are as well, which is a definitely important to learn the difference between the two although they both can be extremely helpful when writing research papers. Also the proper way to use a online database such as Ashford's Online database will also be discussion in a section of this paper. As an end result of reading this paper you will be able to tell the difference between scholarly searches and popular searches, you will also …show more content…

The best source to begin your search would be in my opinion scholarly searches: scholarly search include publications such as certain books and scholarly journals. Scholarly Journals are collections or articles written by scholars or academics in a field of study or by someone whom has done research in a particular field. These searches have been proven to have actual studied facts that may be used as a credible source. There is another search you can used when gathering information for assignments that is called doing a popular search. A popular search could include any research that are not scholarly, which could included but are not limited to magazines, newspaper, some website and even professional blogs. They are written by journalist or other professional in the field of study you are searching. The normally cover topic of general interest intended to inform and even entertain the general public. Popular Journals can be tricky due to the fact that you really have to be certain about your search, seeing as though popular search involve the internet and in the day and age we are in now anyone is allowed to post on the internet so the source might not be

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