Doing Research
About This Book
1 Narrowing a Topic Defining your research question is a process of working from the outside in: you start with the world of all possible topics (or your assigned topic) and narrow down until you have focused your interest enough to be able to state precisely what you want to find out, instead of only what you want to “write about.” Going through this process can be the hardest part of doing research, but once you have a question that is realistically scoped (not too broad, not too narrow) it wi
| Category | technology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Information retrieval and access |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 13 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 3 Background Reading
- 4 A Note about Wikipedia
- 5 Use a Library Encyclopedia or Dictionary
- 9 Popular and Scholarly Articles
- 10 Trade and Professional Sources
- 13 Strategy #1: Start with Just the Keywords
- 14 Check your Bias
- 16 Strategy #2: Examine your Results
- 17 Creating a Search Statement
- 18 Move to a Database
- 20 Use the Library Catalogue
- 21 Strategy #3: Add Some Filters
- 32 Completion