Read the assessment task to see the types of information acceptable for this assessment. Note that FiNDit will locate many types of resources, you will need to be selective.
Scholarly resources in FiNDit:
Other information sources, not for this assessment:
Websites and online materials
Analysing the question - what are the Instruction words (eg Discuss, Explain), keywords (words you will use in your search), and limiters (geographic or time limitations)?
Brainstorming your keywords
Synonyms for keywords
Search string/s - Use brackets to group a single concept, use AND to intersect concepts, use quotation marks for exact phrases, use truncation * for word endings eg:
(Concept 1 OR synonym) AND (Concept 2 OR synonym) AND (Concept 3 OR synonym)
("social media" OR "social network*") AND ("young people" OR youth) AND ("political news" OR "current affairs")
Scan and review the results of your FiNDit search. Consider what looks useful and what doesn't and make changes to your search in response to what you see. A successful search can take several goes, so keep trying, and:
Too few results?
Too many results?
The following modules provide a useful recap of what was covered in the first Library Workshop: