Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The use of dynamic contexts to improve casual internet searching
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Academic users' interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Beyond the search process - Exploring group members' information behavior in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The role of subjective factors in the information search process
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
The emotional impact of search tasks
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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This is Part II of an experimental study investigating students' perceptions of research and research paper anxiety. The study integrates quantitative and qualitative designs to collect complimentary data. The participants were students in four sections of an upper division undergraduate course on technical and professional writing during the fall of 1999. A survey instrument used the Critical Incident Technique to solicit writings in students' own words about a memorable past research and writing experience at the beginning of the semester and the current research and writing at the end of the semester. The quantitative part of the survey measured students' perceptions about research using a questionnaire with five-point Likert scale, and students' anxiety levels using a standard state anxiety test (STAI Y-1). The first article, Part I, provides a detailed description of the experimental design and reports on quantitative results. This article reports on content analysis of students' writings about their experiences of the two research projects. Analysis of the data confirmed Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP) model and revealed additional affective and cognitive aspects related to research and writing.