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ARTS 2346: Ceramics

Research- What is it?

Use this course guide to help build sources for your research project

If at any time you feel confused or frustrated, please ask for help!

Research requires:

  • time
  • patience
  • focus
  • initiative
  • reasoning
  • analysis

Select and focus your research topic

1. Have you chosen a topic related to your assignment?

2. Need help forming search terms? Try:

  •    Writing a sentence about your topic
  •    Pull out important words
  •    Think of other key terms outside of the sentence
  •    Talk to other people about it - do you know someone who works in the field?
  •    Use database features to focus your research question

1302: Crafting Keywords

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Databases & Scholarly Articles

Library Databases may contain:

  • scholarly articles
  • newspapers or magazines
  • images or historical documents
  • full-text books