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Chapters
1. Basics
The information world can be viewed from many different, overlapping points-of-view. For example, common concepts like fiction and non-fiction, speech and writing, or broadcasting and print divide information into broad categories that can be helpful in understanding, evaluating, and organizing it.
2. Topics
This chapter will help you find an appropriate topic or question for research and demonstrate how that question can be focused to suit the limits of time available, length of assignment, or scope of the problem to be solved.
3. Research
This chapter covers how to choose and use a database correctly, & how to craft your research question (& related vocabularies) into search queries that can be understood by computers.
4. Locate
This chapter will show you how to find and get your hands on actual sources.
5. Results
This chapter will introduce criteria for evaluating your research strategies and for evaluating information sources helping you to:
6. Ethics
This chapter will discuss ethical issues in the research and writing process:
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