{"id":1094,"date":"2018-05-25T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&p=1094"},"modified":"2018-07-13T18:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T18:42:49","slug":"scholarly-articles-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/scholarly-articles-3\/","title":{"raw":"Scholarly Articles","rendered":"Scholarly Articles"},"content":{"raw":"You\u2019ll notice that our concepts range from the specific to the vague. Such search terms may seem contradictory to all the advice we have been giving so far about focus and specificity. What is important to understand when looking for scholarly sources that support our primary example is that this search often goes in the opposite direction from focus and specificity. It is highly unlikely that we are going to find a scholarly source on the Occupy Wall Street Facebook post \u201c#ferguson2palestine: October 21 @ 7PM - JOIN US!\u201d and such an article is not what we are looking for anyway, so it would not help us \u00a0to plug the words from that post into a search engine when searching for scholarly articles. You will notice we use the asterisk truncation feature in our search \u201cOccupy Wall Street AND Fail*.\u201d This will widen the net to find variations of fail like failing, failings, failure, and failures.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1366\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"212\"]\"\" From Pixabay.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nWe are looking for sources that represent the larger discussion we are entering. We are looking to ways to join that larger discussion \u00a0using our primary example. We are looking for articles that question whether social media is a facilitator of online communities or an incubator for insularity.\u00a0 So we will type these broader terms into various search engines with the goal of finding articles that deal with similar subjects\u2014articles we can use to elevate the examination of our example. We will then use the specifics of the smaller social world of our chosen post to challenge the scholarly discussion we have discovered.","rendered":"

You\u2019ll notice that our concepts range from the specific to the vague. Such search terms may seem contradictory to all the advice we have been giving so far about focus and specificity. What is important to understand when looking for scholarly sources that support our primary example is that this search often goes in the opposite direction from focus and specificity. It is highly unlikely that we are going to find a scholarly source on the Occupy Wall Street Facebook post \u201c#ferguson2palestine: October 21 @ 7PM – JOIN US!\u201d and such an article is not what we are looking for anyway, so it would not help us \u00a0to plug the words from that post into a search engine when searching for scholarly articles. You will notice we use the asterisk truncation feature in our search \u201cOccupy Wall Street AND Fail*.\u201d This will widen the net to find variations of fail like failing, failings, failure, and failures.<\/p>\n

\"\"
From Pixabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are looking for sources that represent the larger discussion we are entering. We are looking to ways to join that larger discussion \u00a0using our primary example. We are looking for articles that question whether social media is a facilitator of online communities or an incubator for insularity.\u00a0 So we will type these broader terms into various search engines with the goal of finding articles that deal with similar subjects\u2014articles we can use to elevate the examination of our example. We will then use the specifics of the smaller social world of our chosen post to challenge the scholarly discussion we have discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1094","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1077,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1094\/revisions\/1381"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1077"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1094\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}