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Define your Topic

The first step is to take your subject and decide how many ideas or concepts are involved.

For example, if you are researching pollution from car exhausts, there are two ideas or concepts to consider - air pollution and cars.
Page: 6 of 13 Page 1: Research Skills Page 2: Introduction Page 3: Locating and retrieving relevant information Page 4: The information landscape Page 5: Carrying out your literature search Page 6: Define your topic Page 7: Develop your search strategy Page 8: Define your keywords Page 9: Narrow your search Page 10: Library catalogues Page 11: Indexes & online databases Page 12: Internet search tools Page 13: Refining your search strategy « Prev | Next »  
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