What I learned at the RWC...

Last week at the Reading and Writing Center, I learned a few new helpful things about SJCC. Firstly, I learned that we have such a tool as online databases located in the SJCC website that are exclusively for enrolled students and staff. These databases look like they could cut your time spent trying to gather useful information in half. From the man teaching us about these online databases, I learned the very helpful tip of putting your search in quotations in order to search for articles with that exact phrase instead of the databases pulling up many articles that may not have much to do with what you typed in the search bar, but came up anyway because the words were dispersed throughout the page. This hint will surely make navigating information that much easier and tremendously help narrow down your search. Also, you can never be sure of who is typing what on a webpage, and the legitimacy of their claims, so I'm thankful that the man teaching us let us in on another secret of how to check if the page you are viewing is legitimate; to check, you simply look for the copyright symbol at the bottom of the page.