Chapter 8 of the Bedford Researcher starts Part III of the textbook and discusses the subtopic of Collecting Information: Searching for Information with Digital Resources. After going through a lengthy table-of-contents, the first couple of pages prepare the reader to search online for their research projects by "Reviewing Your Research Plan", "Identifying Keywords and Phrases", and going into well-advised detail on how to "Plan Basic Searches". Basic searches involve abrupt to verbatim searches of your topic, sometimes utilizing abbreviations or synonyms to achieve better results. The material then proceeds to the advanced search methods and describes how to narrow searches with Boolean Operators, using variables to add or subtract keywords in searches, and how to conduct visual searches.
The chapter then briefly discusses using online library catalogs; whether it'd be books, journals, newspapers, magazines, documents on microfilm, CDs, DVDs, maps, or other papers written by college graduates, online libraries provide sound and reliable sources with more narrowing options to focus your search. Not only can you utilize the average search engine tools, but you can choose specific areas of study, such as law, education, science, etc.
In my research paper, all of this information can definitely be utilized (and probably will be) to collect information online that is reliable and relevant to the topics discussed in my paper.
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