Friday, October 10, 2008

JSTOR

I found the JSTOR database to be pretty overwhelming. While searching through the articles, I noticed that there are many different things to put in the boxes. Every little change I made gave me several different articles. By putting "intent" and "purpose" in the boxes, I barely found anything related to Bacon's Rebellion. When I put "taxes" and "Indians" next to bacon's rebellion, I got the document we were assigned to read for homework tonight. With those word choices, I definitely had better luck and found more information. Several articles caught my attention and most of them seem like I can actually use them.Before today, I didn't know what databases were, but I'm glad I know about it now. Now I have so many different options that I never had before. Essays and research are going to be so much simpler now.

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