Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found.

Prompt Response: Being very specific about what I was looking for was incredible for finding my sources but for certain topics or types of sources i needed to use less filters ans spend more time finding my documents just scrolling through documents

Summary: We used Galileo to find sources for our topic

Reflection: I learned more about how to use Galileo as a search engine


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