You are only as good as your search engine - Opening up Google and sending out a question is like being thrown into a labyrinth - blindfolded. I managed to access some great works but sifting through the chaf was extremely time consuming. There is just soooo much information out there.
Then I discovered Google Scholar.... duh!!!! This on its own saved me hours of sifting.
And I learn't you are only as good as your organisation. As one gets hooked into one article, the bibliography sends you spinning off down another tunnel. The .pdfs were piling up saved under 3456.pdf, hrzuipresenceone.pdf, lee2.pdf, .... in folders all over the place. Some I even forgot to save and spent hours trying to retrieve.
I came up against dead-ends with:
- too many cascading windows in my browser,
- incomprehensible nomenclatures for files and folders,
- notes jotted all over the house with library call numbers (always put author and title - a number 2 days later means nothing!)
- frustrating journals needing payments for articles (another duh!! moment when I realised had access through the university library)
- and of course not knowing in which direction I was going.
Tonight is a new night. I am starting this blog in earnest to be my compass. Sorting out the folders and files. Deciding on the principal articles that are going to by my guiding star. I can feel the breath of the minotaur and need to find my way.
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