Once you have identified the resources you think may be appropriate you should then analyse your topic and note down any keywords you can use in your search.
- Consider synonyms/realted terms - eg shoes, footwear
- Consider acronyms and abbreviations - eg EU/ European Union
- Conside different spellings - eg globalisation/globalization
When entering your search term improve your chances of finding useful and relevant information by
- Combining search term using AND/OR/NOT
- Using truncation to find all forms of that word, for example manag* will retrieve results for all forms of the word such as manager,managment, managing etc
- Replacing one or more letters of a word with a wildcard (symbol) in order to retrieve all versions of that word, for example wom*n would find woman/women - this is useful for when american spellings
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