Getting Ready to Use Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier can be a very useful tool. I think it will be very helpful when doing research for our projects. I really liked how there is a lot of different options to narrow down your search. After playing around with it a little bit I can see how it would be useful to find specific things that I could be looking for. The database also seemed very large. There is a lot of information that can be found in it.

I am some what familiar with this search database. I used it in high school while taking College Reading and Writing. We had to do a research project similar to this one. It was a few years ago though so I don't remember much about it. Back then I used Academic Search Premier to find scholarly journals. I don't think I have used any other database for research that I can recall.

When thinking about how to use this database for research I do have some concerns. It can be very difficult to sift throught articles to find specific information I may want. Hopefully I can learn how to narrow down my searches to target more specific information. Also, a lot of scholarly journal articles can be very long which can make it difficult to find certain information I may be looking for. To resolve this issue I will just make sure I skim the article before reading it and I will try to determine if it contains what I am looking for.