Using keywords effectively is an important step in learning how to find articles. Several tips for deciding which keywords to use are:
All of these things will impact how well your keywords will match up with what you are trying to find.
Reference information sources can be helpful when beginning the research process. They can give you a working knowledge of your chosen subject area.
There are many different kinds of reference information sources, and each is useful for finding a certain type of information.
Do not cite reference books, such as dictionaries or encyclopedias, or textbooks because they do not contain original research. They are what we call tertiary sources (more on that later), which means that they are based on original research from multiple sources. When you are writing a paper, you should be citing original sources, not sources based on them.
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