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    The document discusses the author's experience using the Ashford University Library for academic research. It describes some initial concerns with developing a research strategy and using the library's search functions. However, the tutorials and resources available have helped improve the author's research skills over the past couple years. Specifically, tutorials have helped sharpen the ability to evaluate sources and dates, as well as follow step-by-step research processes for class experiments. The library has given the author access to more information resources than previously available growing up without internet access.

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    The document discusses the author's experience using the Ashford University Library for academic research. It describes some initial concerns with developing a research strategy and using the library's search functions. However, the tutorials and resources available have helped improve the author's research skills over the past couple years. Specifically, tutorials have helped sharpen the ability to evaluate sources and dates, as well as follow step-by-step research processes for class experiments. The library has given the author access to more information resources than previously available growing up without internet access.

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    The document discusses the author's experience using the Ashford University Library for academic research. It describes some initial concerns with developing a research strategy and using the library's search functions. However, the tutorials and resources available have helped improve the author's research skills over the past couple years. Specifically, tutorials have helped sharpen the ability to evaluate sources and dates, as well as follow step-by-step research processes for class experiments. The library has given the author access to more information resources than previously available growing up without internet access.

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    RUNNING HEAD: Ashford Library

    Ashford Library
    Sherman J. Foster
    GEN 499 General Education Capstone
    Instructor Carlos Olivo
    May 28, 2019
    Ashford Library 1

    Describe your experiences using resources, including concerns encountered when


    conducting academic research through the Ashford University Library. Areas of concern
    may include developing a research strategy, using the search function within a database, or
    evaluating sources.
    During the last couple of years, I have had great success using the Ashford library. When

    I first started school I was overwhelmed with how much information was at my fingertips.

    Growing up we did not have the internet; it was just coming out when I graduated high school.

    My family relied on the Ecyclopedia Britannica set that we had at our home and would

    occasionally use the community library or the one at our school. Some of the areas of concern

    that I have is finding the articles or resources, some links will not open for me, or I will receive

    and error message. This might be occurring because I live in a rural area and sometimes the

    internet is extremely slow or fails to connect.

    Explain how using the Ashford University Library has improved your experience in
    conducting research. For example, you could identify and explain how specific tutorials
    that you have used have helped improve your ability to conduct research.
    I believe that by using the Ashford library, my research skills have sharpened over the

    last couple years. Before this, I would generally take any article for its face worth, now I

    research the date and authenticity of what I read. Luckily this is also rubbing off on a fellow

    family member that has always believed everything they read and not thought about the source in

    which it came from.

    The tutorials that I have experienced have been helpful, the last class I finished required a

    lot of hand on experiments and following step-by-step processes. Luckily these instructions

    came with links about how to properly setup and follow the instructions to provide the correct

    results.

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