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Effective Strategies for Research Success

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Learn how to identify and refine your research topic to write an in-depth report. Find relevant keywords, sources, and evaluate information for scholarly research. Improve search results using Boolean operators in online databases. Evaluate sources by considering authorship, publication credibility, purpose, and timeliness. Enhance your research skills for academic success.

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  1. Basic Research Methods Annie Gabriel Library

  2. Identify & Refine your Topic Using your assignment as a guide, brainstorm several interesting subjects. Refine those subjects into one topic by listing keywords, similar words or phrases, and broader and narrower words. Sample Assignment: Find an area of interest and write an in-depth, research report (4-6 pages) that investigates a significant issue within that discipline. Sample Topic: “What effect does television have on the eating habits of children ERIC has one of themost comprehensive thesaurus’ available Keywords & Related Words: Television (view related words) eating habits (view related words) children (view related words)

  3. What information do you need? • Do you need facts, figures, statistics? • View Statistical Databases • Do you need a general overview of the topic? • World Almanac and Encyclopedia • Does your information need to be very current? • Learn how to limit your searches by year • How in-depth does your research need to be? • Try to use at least 1 source per page for you assignment. Example: If you are writing a 10 page paper, use 10 scholarly sources. • You will actually need to find more sources then you will end up using. If you need to use 10 sources, you should initially gather 15-20. • Do you need to consider different or conflicting points of view? • Try LexisNexis Reference sources(click Reference > Polls & Surveys)

  4. Search Strategies • Use encyclopedias, almanacs and dictionaries to find background information on your topic • Consult the Kinds of InformationChart • Browse books in your subject (CBU uses the Library of Congress system. In this outline, the letters are specific areas of the library where you will find books on your subject) • Use the library’s many databases to find in-depth information in books and journals • Online Research Databases (articles & journals) • WebCat Catalog (books & AV) Improve your Search Results Use Boolean operators in all online databases (including Google) to improve the relevancy of your results.

  5. Evaluate your information Learn how toidentify scholarly journals • Everything that is written has at least some bias or point-of-view. You need to evaluate how much that bias affects the content of the article or website. • Who is the author? • Did the author have any authority in what they wrote? What credentials do they have? • Why was the article written? • Many articles and websites were written to present specific arguments or theories. Make sure you know if the information you are using was written for a specific purpose. • Where was it published? • Was it published in a peer-reviewed, scholarly, or otherwise authoritative journal? Or, merely on someone’s personal website? • When was it published? • Obvious, yes. But, make sure that the website you use is not outdated.