What about the “Google Effect”? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students

Patrick Corbett

doi:10.58680/tetyc201010232

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

What about the “Google Effect”? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students
Author(s): Patrick Corbett
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 37, Issue 3, Mar 2010, p. 265 - 277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc201010232
- Published online: 01 Mar 2010

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This article presents a consideration of how students’ existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an alternative method that uses both library and popular Internet search tools.

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