PART III: Selecting and Obtaining the Best Results - p. 1 of 5

Just because an article came up in your search does not mean it is appropriate or useful for your purposes! The next step in your research is to “surf” through your results and identify articles about which you want to read more or use in your assignment.

When faced with a list of search results, there are a number of strategies you can use to surf your results such as:

1—Quickly scan through the article citations

2—Read the article abstract

3—Look at the full text of the article

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