ECON 101 - Economic Policy and Issues: Your Assignment

Understanding Your Assignment

Before you begin looking for information you should make sure you understand your assignment. Some good questions are:

• How many pages?
• How many sources?
• What kinds of sources?
  
  • Books
  • Articles
  • Websites
    
• What format?

Your professor is your best resource to answer these questions.

Breaking Down The Research Process    

The following outline gives a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. We are ready to help you at every step in your research.                                         

1. Choose a topic - or have one assigned
2. Understand your topic
   • Background reading
   • Consider a main focus
     
   • Refine your topic 
3. Search Sources
   • Find Books
   • Find Articles
   • Find Internet Sources
4. Write your paper – Informative, Analytical, Argumentative, Critical
5. Cite Your Sources

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