Overview
- Analyse your question
- Determine the type of information you need
- Pinpoint the best places to find the information
- Select the appropriate keywords
- Create a search strategy using keywords, synonyms and alternate terms
- Remember truncation and phrase searching
- Use the CRAAP test or 10 pivotal questions
- Evaluation is crucial for websites, but also very important for all other information found
- Library sources already meet a couple of criteria from the CRAAP test (authority, accuracy)
- Save, print or email your results to keep useful records of search results
- Record all information needed for referencing and to help find the same item again
- See Student Learning for help with reading and note-taking
- There are many different ways to present your research
- Always make sure that you have
- answered the question
- shown an understanding of the topic and context
- presented your research in the most appropriate way
- Use all information found ethically
- Acknowledge, by referencing correctly, all the sources you have used
- Ensure you meet all copyright obligations