BUSI 1020U Chapter Notes -Business Communication, Convenience Sampling, Uptodate
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Focus your search: identify your objective, and draft a purpose statement. Draft a thesis or working purpose statement to clarify your objective: narrows your research parameters, structures your document or presentation, becomes part of your document or presentation introduction. Learn what resources are available, and how to use them. Databases of journals, periodicals, magazines and newspapers. Thesaurus lists synonyms and the hierarchies that index information in various databases. Skim several of the first sources you find; if they use additional or different terms, search for these new terms as well. Refine your search: use root words to find variations. A root word such as stock followed by the plus sign (stock+) will yield stock, stocks, stock market, etc: use quotation marks for multi-word terms. If you want only sites that use the term business communication , put quotes around the term: use a boolean search to get more specific hits.
