Speech and Hearing Sciences

BEGINNING THE RESEARCH PROCESS: CHOOSING A TOPIC

These videos and tutorial will help you to think about choosing a do-able research topic.

• Picking your topic IS research (video tutorial from NCSU Libraries 3:10)
• One Perfect Source (video tutorial from NCSU Libraries 2:08)
• Topic Development, Keywords and Finding Sources (UNM Libraries)

SEARCH TIPS

• Finding Books in the Library (UNM Libraries 4:16)
• Academic Search Complete (UNM Libraries 4:03)
  • demonstrates how to search Academic Search Complete, a good multidisciplinary database that searches scholarly and popular journals.
• Web of Science/Science and Social Sciences Citation Index
  • suite of tutorials by the Web of Science publishers that demonstrate the many powerful features of this database
• Search Tips: Expand or narrow your search using Boolean Searching (video tutorial from Douglas College Library 2:14

PRIMARY vs. SECONDARY SOURCES

• Primary and Secondary Sources (UNM Libraries 8:09)

WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW?

• Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students (video tutorial from NCSU Libraries 9:38)

CITING YOUR SOURCES (UNM Libraries)