Research strategy for ELP Written Communication

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An ELP instructor created an assignment for their students to get comfortable using library materials.

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Research Strategy

Step 1: Choose your problem

• What climate change problems do you want to write about?

• Write them down under number 1.

My problem

The declining population of polar bears in the Arctic.

Step 2a: Pick out the main words

Polar bears

population

Arctic

Step 2b: Find related words

• What words are not written in your problem, but could be helpful?

Survival

Climate change

Global warming

Step 3: Put words and phrases together

• Put together different combinations of your words. Connect them using AND. This will be what you enter into search boxes online.