Competency #5A-D: Overall Reflections

Reflecting on the 4 types of searches I performed, building block, citation pearl, specific facet first, and successive fractions, I realized something important about myself. My search style matches my learning style. I am a learner who need details and steps to create the whole. I feel the reason I had a difficult time with the building block search was because it made me feel like I needed to know the whole before I knew the details. In the 3 other searches, I used details to construct the whole or used a very systematic steps to conduct the search. Even though the successive fractions narrows down results, it is still very systematic and you use one detail at a time to conduct the search. Thinking about the future, I see myself using the citation pearl, the specific facet, and the successive fractions strategies first and the building block strategy as a last choice.