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How to Do Research

Print this page and use it to develop your research strategy!

What do you want to know?

Write out your question or state your topic…

Question:
______________________________________________
or
            
Topic:
______________________________________________
             
What are the main ideas?      
What are the concepts, main ideas, or keywords, in the above question/or topic statement?
             
What are some similar words (synonyms) for the above keywords?
             
How can you combine these keywords/synonyms to get different results?
             
Search Strategy 1: ______________________________________________
             
Search Strategy 2: ______________________________________________
             
Search Strategy 3: ______________________________________________


Unit 1: Doing Research: 3 of 8

Information Sources | Selecting the Best | Developing a Research Strategy | Subject & Keyword Searching | Narrowing Your Search | Expanding Your Search | Whys & Hows of Search Syntax | Search Syntax for Life | Glossary

 

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Last updated: Friday, 02-Jul-2004 16:40:04 EDT