Search Paths are an important part of being a college
student. I say this because we learn about them in many writing classes. I had
to complete them in my UI 100 class and my SC105 class. With that being said
these Search Paths are important because they teach us how to access
information and what information is worth accessing. As college students we
have to write many papers and conduct research for each of them.
When conducting research we have to know what information is
useful and where we should pull our information from. Then we have to know how
to let the reader know where we found this information. Search Path shows you
the different resources that we as college students have at our finger tips. Search
Path provides us with six modules that are full of useful information. Two of
these six search paths are choosing a topic and citing sources.
Choosing a topic and citing papers can be difficult for
students. I know personally I struggle with these two items the most. Search
Path has a module for each of them and it goes through an easy to follow
process. I learned when searching for information on a topic you need to pick
out keywords. I also learned when citing a paper you have to cite differently
for a book than you would a web source. These Search Paths are very beneficial
and thankfully Semo provides us with all these wonderful resources.

Natasha I hope I learn more of the search paths as you have. I am scheduled to take UI100 in the spring (January) and I have no idea what it pertains to. So I assume it research and writing (sigh).
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