Blog Post 4-Kevin is Glad he's a Student in the Digital Age

Like Andrew, I find myself using JStor and Summons (as well as MLA and Muse) almost daily (especially for Engl 5014). As such, I found Modules 2 and 7 particularly helpful, since they provided great detail on the use of each; I feel more adept at navigating databases generally, particularly more efficient at using those aforementioned.

Module 7 came at just the right time--as I gird my mind for the onslaught of impending due dates in 5004, 5014, and 5024; having completed the tutorials on advanced searches, I feel much more prepared to complete the 3 upcoming projects (all of which involve plenty o research).

As Nial mentioned in Blog Post 1, Wikipedia has plenty of faults, but I think it can be useful as a jumping off point; future incarnations of this course could focus on it briefly and cautiously in that context. However, students should definitely be actively discouraged from ever citing it.

Generally, I am glad to be a student during a time when access to information is opening up and becoming more convenient to access. I often suspect that I would have been a mediocre student (at best) in the age of longhand (I often have trouble reading my own writing) and journals in print only.