EVIDENCE-BASED COMMENTARY ON PROQUEST
Instructions:
Research a website that could be used to assist you in your academic studies. Write an evidence based commentary that includes the following:
• What is the purpose of the website?
• Who is the audience?
• What type of information is provided on the website?
• Would the information on the site be considered academically reliable? Why/why not?
• Why might you choose to access this site?
• Would you recommend this site to your peers? Why/why not?
• A full reference to the website in Think/Harvard format. Length of commentary: 200 words.
Solution
EVIDENCE-BASED COMMENTARY ON PROQUEST
ProQuest is a website that provides students and general researchers the
access to thousands of secondary sources of information. Most visitors of
ProQuest are college and university students. The primary type of information
found in ProQuest secondary findings of research studies stored in the form of
journals articles and conference reports. In light of the above, the
information found in ProQuest is overly reliable for educational purposes. The rationale for the above is that most of
the journal articles and reports found on
the above site are peer-reviewed and are
the right kind of sources of information to use in the pursuit of establishing
quality academic literature reviews. I might choose to access ProQuest in order
to research for a particular study topic in my business course or in the
pursuit of finding insightful information to enhance my general knowledge in
business related subjects. Consequently,
I would recommend my peers to access ProQuest as well. Ideally, they would find
it to be overly resourceful especially regarding business topics. More so, the website majorly features peer-reviewed academic reference materials that
guarantee the authenticity of the
information in all the educational materials
in its entire database.
Reference
ProQuest, (2016). ProQuest Business Collection. . [online] Search.proquest.com. Available at: http://search.proquest.com [Accessed 5 Oct. 2016].
