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Freshman Composition

A research guide for ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 students, including guidance for online research, library materials, citations, and evaluating source credibility.

From Topic to Search Strategy

All research starts from a topic, but in order to search more effectively the topic should be developed into a research question which can be broken down into core concepts and search terms. As an example:

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"Moving from a Research Question to a Search Strategy" model and worksheet by Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.