Think about your topic and break
it down into different segments. For example, if you are doing research
on
stress in the workplace, you must be sure to break down your query into
the concepts of stress and
workplace.
If you only rely on the one concept of
stress in the workplace,
your results will
suffer, because the computer will look for only that
specific phrase.
When you search, it is very important to use more than
one term, in order not to get too many hits. Just typing in the word
stress
will retrieve far too
many hits. You must combine it with
workplace.
But what if that strategy
doesn't work well and you don't get enough information? Try to think of
alternative terms that you might use in the search boxes. For example, you
might use such words as
"anxiety"
in addition to stress; or you
could use job
or
office
in addition to workplace. |
