This guide is designed to help you with researching your thesis, qualifying paper, or capstone project and citing your resources properly. If you have any questions on this, please refer to the Let Us Help You tab at the bottom of the menu to the left or click the Ask Us tab to the right.
If you are not sure how to get started with your project, the information on this page is designed to help you select a successful topic and begin the research process. If you already have your topic and have started your research, you may want to skip ahead to other options on the menu to the left.
Once you have a topic, you will want to start thinking about how to boil it down into usable keywords and how to turn these keywords into successful searches in databases. For any searchable resource the recommended search terms will vary by your topic.
Here are some tips that can help you to develop and refine your search terms:
It can be so tempting to believe that bookmarking an article or pasting a URL into a document will be enough to help you trace your research trail a couple of months from now and properly cite your sources before turning in your thesis. Take it from me that, while tempting, this is going to end up being a huge waste of time. It is so important to track your research as you go along, save your sources in a systematic way, and even cite sources as you go along (see the tab labelled Citing Your Sources for more on that). While you are doing your research,
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