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Finding Peer-Reviewed Sources
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I'm starting work on my essays for my Study.com American Civil War Era class, and I don't have much research experience. What are some resources you have used for tracking down peer-reviewed sources (e.g. a specific search engine or Google tactic to get peer-reviewed sources in your results)?
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#2
https://scholar.google.com/

I find that the bar is not that high for sources in study.com classes. That link should be enough.
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If you are enrolled at TESU, you can get a NJ State Library card for free which gets you electronic access to a number of databases with peer-reviewed documents. It would also be good to get familiar with it ahead of a capstone course.

https://www.njstatelib.org/research_libr...niversity/
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Also, I was able to use my local library membership to access their peer reviewed article databases.
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(10-11-2018, 01:33 PM)mysonx3 Wrote: I'm starting work on my essays for my Study.com American Civil War Era class, and I don't have much research experience. What are some resources you have used for tracking down peer-reviewed sources (e.g. a specific search engine or Google tactic to get peer-reviewed sources in your results)?

I took all three Upper Level History classes that Study.com offers and I don't think I used any peer-reviewed sources and I still passed. Almost all the websites I used ended in .org and .edu. They always mentioned in the comments that I should use peer-reviewed sources but that's only one part of the rubric used to grade. 
Of course it's good practice to find the peer-reviewed sources and might be useful in future classes. But for me, I had a lot to do and since it's only Pass/Fail and I really hate to write, I just did the essays as quickly as I could. 
I know it's not the good, scholarly thing to do. And maybe I didn't get everything out of the classes that I could. But I did actually read all the lessons and did my best on the quizzes and the tests.
Anyway, that's just what I did.

Good luck with your papers.
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(10-19-2018, 01:19 PM)Jenna.C Wrote:
(10-11-2018, 01:33 PM)mysonx3 Wrote: I'm starting work on my essays for my Study.com American Civil War Era class, and I don't have much research experience. What are some resources you have used for tracking down peer-reviewed sources (e.g. a specific search engine or Google tactic to get peer-reviewed sources in your results)?

I took all three Upper Level History classes that Study.com offers and I don't think I used any peer-reviewed sources and I still passed. Almost all the websites I used ended in .org and .edu. They always mentioned in the comments that I should use peer-reviewed sources but that's only one part of the rubric used to grade. 
Of course it's good practice to find the peer-reviewed sources and might be useful in future classes. But for me, I had a lot to do and since it's only Pass/Fail and I really hate to write, I just did the essays as quickly as I could. 
I know it's not the good, scholarly thing to do. And maybe I didn't get everything out of the classes that I could. But I did actually read all the lessons and did my best on the quizzes and the tests.
Anyway, that's just what I did.

Good luck with your papers.

How tough did you find them on grading assignments? 
I am doing the lower level Vietnam course right now and going to start the upper level afterwards. 

I am open to any other upper level sdc courses after that.
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(10-20-2018, 12:22 PM)zzzz24 Wrote:
(10-19-2018, 01:19 PM)Jenna.C Wrote:
(10-11-2018, 01:33 PM)mysonx3 Wrote: I'm starting work on my essays for my Study.com American Civil War Era class, and I don't have much research experience. What are some resources you have used for tracking down peer-reviewed sources (e.g. a specific search engine or Google tactic to get peer-reviewed sources in your results)?

I took all three Upper Level History classes that Study.com offers and I don't think I used any peer-reviewed sources and I still passed. Almost all the websites I used ended in .org and .edu. They always mentioned in the comments that I should use peer-reviewed sources but that's only one part of the rubric used to grade. 
Of course it's good practice to find the peer-reviewed sources and might be useful in future classes. But for me, I had a lot to do and since it's only Pass/Fail and I really hate to write, I just did the essays as quickly as I could. 
I know it's not the good, scholarly thing to do. And maybe I didn't get everything out of the classes that I could. But I did actually read all the lessons and did my best on the quizzes and the tests.
Anyway, that's just what I did.

Good luck with your papers.

How tough did you find them on grading assignments? 
I am doing the lower level Vietnam course right now and going to start the upper level afterwards. 

I am open to any other upper level sdc courses after that.

I don't think they are very tough on grading. I did all my papers in a very rushed manner and I didn't follow all the directions about peer-reviews sources or primary sources, or even length. They were definitely not high quality papers but I still passed. 
I feel like as long as you write about what you're supposed to and try to organize it in an order that makes sense, you will pass. Also try using mostly sources that end in .org, .gov, and .edu. They're not hard to find on the topics asked about. 
I did the papers knowing that I only had to have a combined 55% on the Final and the assignments. And I know that tests are more suited to me than papers. You can also take the test first and then you will know exactly what you need on the papers to pass.

I recommend all the Upper Level history classes, despite the fact that I found the papers annoying. I learned a lot from them.
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(10-20-2018, 01:05 PM)Jenna.C Wrote:
(10-20-2018, 12:22 PM)zzzz24 Wrote:
(10-19-2018, 01:19 PM)Jenna.C Wrote:
(10-11-2018, 01:33 PM)mysonx3 Wrote: I'm starting work on my essays for my Study.com American Civil War Era class, and I don't have much research experience. What are some resources you have used for tracking down peer-reviewed sources (e.g. a specific search engine or Google tactic to get peer-reviewed sources in your results)?

I took all three Upper Level History classes that Study.com offers and I don't think I used any peer-reviewed sources and I still passed. Almost all the websites I used ended in .org and .edu. They always mentioned in the comments that I should use peer-reviewed sources but that's only one part of the rubric used to grade. 
Of course it's good practice to find the peer-reviewed sources and might be useful in future classes. But for me, I had a lot to do and since it's only Pass/Fail and I really hate to write, I just did the essays as quickly as I could. 
I know it's not the good, scholarly thing to do. And maybe I didn't get everything out of the classes that I could. But I did actually read all the lessons and did my best on the quizzes and the tests.
Anyway, that's just what I did.

Good luck with your papers.

How tough did you find them on grading assignments? 
I am doing the lower level Vietnam course right now and going to start the upper level afterwards. 

I am open to any other upper level sdc courses after that.

I don't think they are very tough on grading. I did all my papers in a very rushed manner and I didn't follow all the directions about peer-reviews sources or primary sources, or even length. They were definitely not high quality papers but I still passed. 
I feel like as long as you write about what you're supposed to and try to organize it in an order that makes sense, you will pass. Also try using mostly sources that end in .org, .gov, and .edu. They're not hard to find on the topics asked about. 
I did the papers knowing that I only had to have a combined 55% on the Final and the assignments. And I know that tests are more suited to me than papers. You can also take the test first and then you will know exactly what you need on the papers to pass.

I recommend all the Upper Level history classes, despite the fact that I found the papers annoying. I learned a lot from them.

Thanks. I am about to start on the Vietnam Essays... how I wish there weren't any assignments.. or at least only one
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Credits:
TESU: LIB Capstone 3cr, Cornerstone 1cr 
Aleks: 3cr, Insurance Institute: 2cr NFA: 1cr 
Sophia: 2cr Straighterline: 48cr TEEX: 6cr 
Study.com: 18cr B&M: 77cr
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(10-21-2018, 07:36 PM)zzzz24 Wrote:
(10-20-2018, 01:05 PM)Jenna.C Wrote:
(10-20-2018, 12:22 PM)zzzz24 Wrote:
(10-19-2018, 01:19 PM)Jenna.C Wrote:
(10-11-2018, 01:33 PM)mysonx3 Wrote: I'm starting work on my essays for my Study.com American Civil War Era class, and I don't have much research experience. What are some resources you have used for tracking down peer-reviewed sources (e.g. a specific search engine or Google tactic to get peer-reviewed sources in your results)?

I took all three Upper Level History classes that Study.com offers and I don't think I used any peer-reviewed sources and I still passed. Almost all the websites I used ended in .org and .edu. They always mentioned in the comments that I should use peer-reviewed sources but that's only one part of the rubric used to grade. 
Of course it's good practice to find the peer-reviewed sources and might be useful in future classes. But for me, I had a lot to do and since it's only Pass/Fail and I really hate to write, I just did the essays as quickly as I could. 
I know it's not the good, scholarly thing to do. And maybe I didn't get everything out of the classes that I could. But I did actually read all the lessons and did my best on the quizzes and the tests.
Anyway, that's just what I did.

Good luck with your papers.

How tough did you find them on grading assignments? 
I am doing the lower level Vietnam course right now and going to start the upper level afterwards. 

I am open to any other upper level sdc courses after that.

I don't think they are very tough on grading. I did all my papers in a very rushed manner and I didn't follow all the directions about peer-reviews sources or primary sources, or even length. They were definitely not high quality papers but I still passed. 
I feel like as long as you write about what you're supposed to and try to organize it in an order that makes sense, you will pass. Also try using mostly sources that end in .org, .gov, and .edu. They're not hard to find on the topics asked about. 
I did the papers knowing that I only had to have a combined 55% on the Final and the assignments. And I know that tests are more suited to me than papers. You can also take the test first and then you will know exactly what you need on the papers to pass.

I recommend all the Upper Level history classes, despite the fact that I found the papers annoying. I learned a lot from them.

Thanks. I am about to start on the Vietnam Essays... how I wish there weren't any assignments.. or at least only one
I know the feeling! 
Good luck! You'll do fine.
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I did well on the final, so I just submitted my papers.

Hopefully it's enough to pass. If not, I guess I will have to resubmit them.
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Credits:
TESU: LIB Capstone 3cr, Cornerstone 1cr 
Aleks: 3cr, Insurance Institute: 2cr NFA: 1cr 
Sophia: 2cr Straighterline: 48cr TEEX: 6cr 
Study.com: 18cr B&M: 77cr
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