How To Perform Good Research

We attended a lecture the other day explaining a few neat tricks to help us gather better research, here are some notes -

- Break down your topic into two or three ideas.
-Think of keywords & synonyms for these ideas.
-Think about where to look to make sure your getting truthful stories/articles.

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-Truncation - Place an astrix at the end of a word and the engine will search for many endings to that particular word.

-Phrases - Place words in quotation marks and the engine will search for those words together.

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-Look to combine your key words by using 'and'.
-You can also use 'or' instead, this widens the search.
-You can also use 'not' so that you narrow down your search.

Also be careful that the information your looking at is in date, you don't want to refer to articles or statistics that are no longer true.

Nexis UK is a massive database and the uni also has its own data base called Discover.