GEOG 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nonpoint Source Pollution, Scopus

• School: McGill University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 360
• Professor: Jeanine Rhemtulla

Document Summary

Use dictionaries and encyclopedias from library subject guides. Boolean operators: and, or, not, use order of operations () Books, articles, databases (scopus, web of science etc ), government information (all searchable on the mcgill library site) How to narrow or broaden your topic appropriately. Add limits (years of publication, geography, type of publication), narrow concepts. Try broader terms/synonyms, check references of relevant sources, try a new database. Use of constructed wetlands to reduce water pollution caused by agricultural runoff. Agricultural runoff- agricultural waste, nonpoint source pollution, phosphorus, nitrogen.