RWS 1302 Gallardo

Research Question Builder

​What did we do last time?

We often start research with a broad subject and need to find a focus that is specific enough to be covered fully in our work

Narrow (or broaden) your Topic

Ask:

• Who

• What

• When

• Where

​Finding too much information?

Try to look at the bigger picture:

• Think of key concepts

• Generalize

• Use more keywords

• Some topics are too new

​Finding too little information?

​No results

• Research question breakdown

• ​Advanced Searching protips

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​What are we doing today?

Review how to turn a research question into a word bank of keywords to perform a search.

Research Question Breakdown

• Select keywords

• Boolean operators

• Truncation

• Filters

Advanced Searching

Used to replace one or multiple characters to look for alternate spellings and variations.

​Truncation

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​utep.edu/library

​This might be intimidating at first, but we are breaking it down.

• Save the word doc to your device, you can save it to the desktop

• ​Sign in to myUTEP

• Attach the assignment in an email to me at micondekalm@utep.edu​

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​Send me feedback here