|
Research Strategy Guide
An effective research strategy consists of the following steps:
- Analyze your research problem. What do you need to know about the
topic of your research? What do you already know about this topic? What do
you need to learn about the topic?
- Determine your information requirements. What types of information
(brief versus thorough, scholarly versus popular, factual versus descriptive, historical versus current,
primary versus secondary) do you need to find?
- Identify your information source needs. What types of Information Packages (Sources of Information) (books, periodical articles, Web documents) do you need to
search ? What Library resources will help you fulfill your information
needs? Are these resources accessible electronically or in print or both?
Ask a librarian for
Research Assistance.
- Conduct your information search(es).. Translate your research
topic into subject phrases or key words. Gather relevant information using
appropriate Library resources.
- Critically interpret, evaluate, and synthesize your information
search results. See
Evaluating Sources of
Information. Conduct additional information search(es) if necessary.
This page http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/strategy.shtml is maintained by Laura Hudson.
Please use our Feedback Form
for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
File saved 08/03/07 10:16 PDT
|
