Notes
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Outline
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Research Strategy
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Strategy
  • Before you get an assignment know what resources are available to you
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Understand the Assignment
  • What information is needed?
  • What are the time and money constraints?
  • How should the answer be presented?
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Strategy
  • Analyze the specific problem
  • Verify jurisdiction.
  • Outline issues.
  • Look at the information you were given for leads.
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Outline Research Plan
  • Base your selection on:
    • What you already know
    • The kind of information needed.
    • The sources in which the information is available
    • The sources which are available to you.
    • The project deadline.
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Evaluate For Each Resource
  • What type of information does it contain?
  • How do you locate relevant information within the source (finding tools)?
  • How do you update it? (How up-to-date is it?)
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STRATEGY
  • UPDATE!
  • Know how up-to-date you are
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Stop
  • When you run out of time.
  • When you have done as much as the problem is worth.
  • When you keep running into the same sources over and over.