Zone into good results by well-defining your topic, using the right keywords, and field searching within databases.
Contents
- Skills to be Acquired
- Focusing & Narrowing Your Topic
- Brainstorming
- Online Databases & Magic of Indexing
- Keyword Searching
- Types of Databases
- Wrap Up
Skills to be Acquired
This module covers topic selection and refinement and how to identify keywords to search your topic
When you have completed this module you should be able to:
If you don't already, begin to use connectors: AND, OR
- focus or narrow a topic
- identify keywords for a topic
- understand the difference between keyword and subject searching
- understand how to select and use databases for different purposes
- use connectors in constructing a search
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