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.