A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students' research materials

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-76

  Helms Park, Rena ^a   Radia, Pavlina ^a   Stapleton, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Academic writing; EAP; Electronic literacy; Google Scholar; Web based research

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ONLINE SEARCHING; STUDENTS;

ACADEMIC WRITING; ELECTRONIC LITERACY; GOOGLE SCHOLARS; WEB BASED RESEARCH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33847689892     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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