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How To Research Your Topic For Your Publication
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:43:26
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Last week's article gave some foundational steps for “How To Choose Your Topic.” This week’s article deals with how to research your topic.
First things first, you have your topics before you and you want to go to the library to the card catalog or you can do this from home. I will show you how to do this later on in the article. Now in most libraries this station is usually near the computers or near the librarian’s station.
Now you can usually find what you want by a title search. Oh yes, let me not forget that the first column for the “Search by” will have the following in the drop down menu:
Title
Author
Keyword
Subject
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
The second column will be for your title name, keyword, search/phrase. The last column will have a drop menu for what library location you want to search at. If you want to search all libraries then you can do that also. You can also access the card catalog at home by typing in the URL for your city or counties network. For instance for the Philadelphia Library system you would type in www.library.phila.gov and on the website there will be three sections Find (Blue), Explore (Green) and Ask (Orange). Now for you Philadelphians your assignment is to find out what the colors mean.
For your research purposes you want the FIND category for now. This section will prompt you to use this box to search our “catalog” and “databases” this is where you will go. If you want all of the libraries in Pennsylvania you would go to www.state.pa.us and type in the keyword libraries. For other sates you will follow a similar path (Ex: www.state.ny.us). From this home page you will see “PA Libraries on the Web” click on this and you are on your way.
Last but not least you can research your topic/subject by an article search. There are article banks and article marketing sites where you can find a plethora of information. But always check your references. Just because someone published an article doesn’t mean it is correct. Always check the date of the article and the URL’s to make sure you give clear and accurate information. Now here are a few articles sites you can check with which I have found to be pretty reputable.
www.ezinearticles.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.articlebiz.com
www.goarticles.com
Copyright 2006 Arlene Whiting
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arlene Whiting, “The Infodocktor,” is author of several reports “How to start a business without a computer,” “100+ Resources for Infopreneurs,” “How to make money as an Infopreneur,” “How to market your web business” and the “Infopreneur Success Newsletter”. Arlene is also a member of the NAWW (National Association of Women Writers) http://www.naww.net and AWE (Association of Web Entrepreneurs) http://www.aweconnect.com To sign up for your free newsletter send a note to Infodocktor@yahoo.com |
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