Your Research Strategy
1. Choose a controversial topic.
- Our databases can help!
- Email useful articles to yourself.
2. Explore ways to focus your topic.
- Use MegaSearch. Search your main topic, then experiment with different focus concepts.
- Look at concepts that focus your topic into a question.
- Articulate your answer to a controversial question. This is your THESIS.
3. Find sources that make arguments AGAINST your thesis.
- Email these to yourself.
4. Find credible sources to support your argument and to rebut opposing views.
- Email these full text sources to yourself, along with automatic MLA citations.
