Try searching some of these in the resources listed on this page of your guide. Don't forget to use the advanced search page and use your Boolean operators (connectors like AND, OR, and NOT) to add other terms, such as value, worth, or advantages. Remember to use quotation marks to search keywords as a phrase.
You may have to use the NOT connector to eliminate results from a search. As an example, when searching "collaborative writing" AND wikipedia, you get a lot of results from education journals that publish articles about using collaborative writing in higher education settings for EFL students, or assignments for middle and high school students. What I would suggest is choosing the NOT connector and copy/paste the following string into that search box:
This should remove most references to those types of articles.
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Use the ~ symbol before a word to search all synonyms of that word. For example, if you want articles on the value of collaborative writing, you would search "collaborative writing" ~value which would include articles regarding the merit, worth, usefulness, advantages, etc., of collaborative writing.
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Once you click on a link to a database, you need to login with your network ID & password - the same you use to login to any campus computer.