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Do you know what you are looking for? (#4)

When you get your assignments or dissertation topic you need to take some time to analyse exactly what you are being asked to do. Don’t jump in and start searching straight away.

Try to breakdown your question so that you are sure you know what information you need to search for and how you can answer the question. This helps you to focus your search and stops you wasting time looking for irrelevant information.

There are a number of tools that can help you and we’ll go through some of them in the next few blog posts.

Question breakdown represented by a single question mark icon being split into 4
Question breakdown represented by a single question mark icon being split into 4

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