First Discussion Post with topic:
- What is your topic of interest and your research question? Please share how you created your research question.
The topic of interest is: The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on higher education
Research question: What are the effects of the covid-19 pandemic on higher education to students and the economy of various nations worldwide?
In developing the research question, I have analyzed the broad topic of interest first and have researched specific effects. The specific effects I have found include; effects on students and also effects on the economy of various nations.
- Where will you begin your search and why?
I will begin my search on Google Scholar because it consists of academic journals which are rich with information on the subject matter. The journals and articles are also easier to access
- What search terms will you use? Please demonstrate them in a search statement using Boolean logic (Boolean AND, OR, and nesting). If you really want to impress me and your classmates, try an advanced searching technique (exact phrase searching or truncation or both)!! This is preparing you for the Search Strategy Assignment.
- Covid 19 pandemic AND economic impacts in different countries globally
- Higher education students learning AND covid 19 effects
- How the studying programs in higher education were modified to adapt to the new way of living with the pandemic
- Cost of living AND government response to the covid 19 pandemic
- Termination of higher education programs OR adaptation to the new way of living with the pandemic
- What was the easiest part of this activity? Did you get stuck trying to come up with a search strategy? What was the hardest part of the activity?
The easiest part of this activity was to create the research question and explain how I created it since the topic of interest I selected was straightforward. The hardest part of the activity was the demonstration of the search terms in the search statements using Boolean logic.
Prof Comments:
You have made a good start on your research topic.
I have mention this to other students, but it is also an issue with your topic. The suggested topics are all broad to start with and need to be focused. It is not possible to do a research paper on how Covid-19 has effected education in all the nations of the world. It would be better to pick one country and even then focus on one aspect of how Covid-19 has impacted higher education.
Google Scholar is a very good place to look for academic sources. Remember that some articles that are behind a paywall on Google Scholar will be available full-text in the UMGC library. You should also search there.
You have attempted Boolean searching. But remember you should focus on key concepts and remove all non-essential terms. You have a lot of ideas here that are not in your research question. There are 5 techniques that we learned in the Week 1 content and you will need to include all of them in ONE search to achieve the highest grades on the Search Strategy Assignment.
Discussion 2:
As further preparation for your Search Strategy assignment, go to the UMGC library and search for an online journal article for your search topic. Next, find an article or news source on the web that is helpful to your topic. Provide a reference citation in APA 7 format for each of the two resources using the APA example formats for help. Please provide this information about your topic and resources you found:
Your topic:
Library source: [reference citation]
Web resource: [reference citation]
In a few sentences, share how you located the sources. If you got stuck, how did you recover?
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