EDU 516 / LIT 530

You can use the same databases and search strategies that you used in the virtual library assignment to find articles. In that assignment, you focused on finding research-based articles.

For this assignment, you can also used research-based articles and published literature reviews, which can help you identify articles that are relevant to your topic. In the screenshot below, you can see that the first article is a literature review due to the title (highlighted in pink) and the subjects (highlighted in purple). 

You can use articles' reference lists and Google Scholar to find related articles - check out our guide on using bibliographies to find sources.

Here's the general idea...if you have one good article to start with:

• You can look backward by looking at the article's bibliography. As you were reading the article, did any of its citations seem relevant to your research topic?
• You can look forward by seeing who has cited your "one good article." Because academic publishing is a slow process, this is more useful when the "one good article" is at least a year or two old.

Here's a visual way of looking at it - in the example image below, the De Wever, Schellens, Valcke, & Van Keer article is our "one good article."