Italian Studies   Tags: italian language, italian literature, italian studies  

In preparing to look for information,

• determine what is your research question.
  • Define the various problems or questions posed in your initial question: limit, label, question, hypothesize
  • Your thesis should not be too broad nor too narrow and should lead to original ideas with insights
  • Consult reference works for background information on your topic
• Choose a search system to answer your question(s)
  • Find primary and secondary resources
  • Find books, electronic and print indexes, Web resources…
• Formulate a query depending on the search system
  • Library Catalogue Help
  • Ask Us for help
• Execute the search
• Examine and assess/evaluate the results of your search
  • Peer review 
  • Scholarly and Popular Resources
• Save the results and Extract information
  • Know how to cite and use the resources you found
  • RefWorks
• Reflect, write, reiterate, stop

Please see the tutorials on how to find information at the University of Alberta.