Literature Search

  1. Choose one topic from the three topics you submitted in Assignment 2.
  2. Define key terms to be used in the literature search. You can group them into broad and narrow categories.
    If using broad terms generates too many results, you can try using narrow terms to get more specific results.
    You can revise your search criteria based on the results.
  3. Using the key terms, search those terms in electronic databases the library subscribes to. Begin by going to
    the KSU Library home page and use the search features provided by the library: http://library.kennesaw.edu/ ;
    you may also try other scholarly literature search tools, such as Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
  4. Evaluate the literature. Researchers rarely have time to read books and articles from cover to cover. They
    are practiced at evaluating references in a few minutes by skimming the abstracts, contents pages, indexes,
  5. Select Eight references from different sources on the topic that you are preparing, read them, and use the
    criteria in the table below to evaluate their relevance, provenance, and source reliability.