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MLL Student Reference Guide: Effective Reasearch

This guide is a resource for college students of all ages who need support while performing online research

Effective Research

How I would approach a search

The following clips are meant to show you the genuine process of conducting a search, it is an imperfect process and requires constant revision and thought. This is not a series of perfect and well edited clips.

Sample research question: Does hyperactive behavior in young children affect how they are perceived by teachers?

Discovery Tool Advanced Search:

This search is brining forth too many results...How could I narrow it down?

You could start by changing some of the boolean operators, or...

I have been doing this for my entire college career and I still don't have perfect strategies, it is all about trial and error!