1. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.
I chose "cochlear implants." My daughter is deaf and has one. The articles, totalling 349, started with the latest. I also chose full text documents and scholarly articles. I will definitely show my students the abstract tool, as no researcher has time to read through a whole list of articles and waste time. The abstract gives the sort of information that lets the researcher know whether or not he or she wants to proceed with the whole thing.
I have always been aware of the print and email functions, but I was excited to see the copy link and the "cite this" buttons. How very convenient. Most students now days have no idea how we old people used to use type writers and carbon copies and have to do footnotes for our teachers. I can remember getting to the bottom of the page and making a mistake and having to start all over. It's is simply magic now.
I also appreciated the subject headings to the right side which can relate to the research. I am interested in the linguistics approach to the speech instruction after children are implanted--and there was a link for that.
Thanks for pointing out the importance and use of the abstracts, ShariO! A sneak peek helps determine an article's usefulness. Yes, ProQuest has added a few features that make us old-timers wish we'd had them back in the day. :) You are right, also, in that the subject headings to the right help lead researchers to more material. Sometimes researchers will get a box above their search results with other search suggestions, which helps students get focused on their topic.
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