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Education (UNH Durham)

General guide to support programs in the Dept. of Education; also includes course pages

Welcome!

Hello! This guide is to help you through all parts of library research.

Library research generally follows the process below.* 

*And note that most people repeat steps, including continuing to find sources while they're writing.

It's ok if this isn't how you work - they are general steps to help you if you get stuck.

Research is a PROCESS

This a general (idealized) process - what's yours?

Remember - you will repeat steps as you need to!

Graphic showing the research process from choosing a topic to doing background research to refine your research question to planning a search to finding books and articles and reading them to sythesize the information on your topic.