ENG 111: College Composition I (Gonzales-Loudoun)

Search Google for your topic keywords. Look for government, education, and/or organization webpages as well as news/magazine publications. If researching controversial topics, be aware of biased publications. 

Scholarly resources may not be apparent if you simply "Google." You can increase the likelihood that an authoritative resource appears at the top of your results by limiting your search by filetype (filetype:pdf) or domain (site:.gov or site:.edu or site:.org).

Try searching Google for "Think Tanks" and see if any of the suggestions in the AI Overview cover Education as a policy area of concentration. 

As an alternative, try Google Scholar. Like Google Scholar, Internet Archive Scholar may yield good results for your search. 

You might experiment using an artificial intelligence (AI) research assistant. Elicit, Perplexity, and Research Rabbit offer three different approaches to AI-based research with the possibility of limiting your search to published academic papers. You'll have to register (sign up), but they are free. Experiment!

Before using information found on a webpage, consider the following criteria to evaluate its credibility.

• Who is the author?
• What are his/her qualifications?
• Why was the website created?
• When was it last updated?
• How reliable is the information?

For further guidance, please refer to NOVA Libraries' How to...Evaluate Websites research guide.