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RESEARCH MADE EASY
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Current events
Politics
Environmentalinjustice
Health ormedicine
Racial &Ethnic
Discrimination
Art
Music
Drugs, Alcohol& Teens
Business ofFashion
Government
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Describe your topic in one or twosentences
Define the focus of the topic & theparticular aspects to be covered
Example:
My topic is: The Effects ofUnemployment on Teens inMichigan
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Unemployment lack of jobs -joblessness
Teens youth-adolescents
Effects attitudes lack ofexperience
The Effects of Unemployment on Teens inMichigan
Identify the 2 or 3 basic concepts(keywords) in your topicAlso identify synonymsUSE YOUR WORKSHEETS
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Use the word AND to connect aword from each concept (keyword).
Example:
Unemployment AND teens ANDMichigan
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With Advanced Search, use OR to connectthe alternatives w/in each concept.
This will find articles that either have theword unemployment OR the wordjobless OR the phrase in the citationand abstract.
Example:
Unemployment OR joblessness ANDteens OR adolescents AND Michigan
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BASIC RESOURCESTO USE
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Articles in general and subjectencyclopedias are written by experts,give in-depth information, and
usually contain extensivebibliographies to lead you toadditional sources.
Subject & Basic
Encyclopedia
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Editorials
Current attitudes
Newspapers reflect what people ofa period were reading and perhapsbelieving
NEWSPAPERS
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MA GAZINE SC HO LAR LY JO UR NA L
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Journal
Articles
Refereed materials are publicationsreviewed by "expert readers" orreferees prior to the publication of thematerial. Refereed materials are also
referred to as Peer ReviewedNon-refereed materials such as TradeJournals or Magazines use lessrigorous standards of screening prior
to publication
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Any informational materialproduced by a government
agency (published atgovernment expense, or asrequired by law)
Federal
State
Local
Government
Documents
KNOW YOUR GOVERNMENTAGENCIES
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A source for sample topic:
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Books
-depth subject coverageBibliographies
Suggested readingsore available full-text on linean order online from a library for pickup at local libr
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Access from home
Access from school
Access from your local library
http://www.mel.org
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"Some luck lies in not getting what youthought you wanted but getting what you
have, which, once you have got it, you may
be smart enough to see is what you would
have wanted had you known." Garrison Keillor
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Relevance: does the information pertain toyour research question?
Currency: how recently was theinformation published? How recently has it
been updated? Have there been newdevelopments on the topic?
Authorship: who wrote it? What are theircredentials? Do they cite their sources? Hasthe information been peer reviewed? (Peer
reviewed means that a groupknowledgeable in the subject has examinedthe article and determined it accurate.)
Objective: What is the authors objective?Persuade? Explain? Manipulate?
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Good searching takespatience. It can take a lotof trial and error to get
good results.
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Effective SearchingBased on a presentation developed byLibrarians
Rhonda J. McGinnis & Veronica Bielat
Locating ResourcesDuryea Callaway