Before you start searching for information
You need to think about:
WHAT
WHERE
HOW
It's tempting to just start searching and see what you can find, but you get better results if you sit down and think about it first.
Ask yourself a few questions:
You need to think about what kind of information you will find in:
And you need to think about what tools will do the best job of helping you find it.
The more you plan what you want to look for, and where and how you will look for it, the less time you will waist, and the better the results will be.
Keywords are the main words, concepts or phrases that outline what your topic is about.
Your assignment task will contain:
The Task words are the words that tell you what to do ("discuss", "outline", "analyse"), and how you need to relate the key terms to each other.
The KEYWORDS give you the topics or concepts you need to research.
"Outline the precautions, uses and administrations and adverse effects of arsenic trioxide. Discuss how methods of compounding might influence the absorption of the substance."
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