Thursday, January 15, 2015

Drowning in Information? Narrow your Topic...

Do you ever feel like this?


Try this...


Original Topic: Pollution

Narrowed Topic: Health effects of acid rain on people within the United States

Topic Tip: Think of a particular aspect of a subject to explore and break them into main concepts. If your topic is too broad, then you will retrieve way too many articles.

Search Tip: Use the concept terms within a database search.

                           ORIGINAL TOPIC                            NARROWED TOPIC

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-Theresa Whitehead, Distance Learning Librarian

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