Type in your first segment in the search engine of our library.

TIP: Best to start with articles/journals. Leave books for later.

Rule #3 Explanation. SCAN – don’t read every word -- the article/journal. If you don’t see what you want, go to the next source.

If you do see what you want, highlight that part of the text and do a “copy.” Go into your C drive research paper file and do a “paste” right under the “Chapter 2”. Then hit “save.” Go back to the article/journal and get the author of the source info and out it in parentheses immediately following the source info.

Repeat the process as many times as you think is necessary to get as much in the way of source material for that chapter. DO NOT, at this point, be concerned about the order in which the different source info is in, in that chapter.

TIP: If you think you want to research books online, that will only work if you can view all the text. In that case, don't even look at the title. IF THE WORD OR WORDS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ARE NOT IN THE INDEX, THEY'RE NOT IN THAT BOOK. STOP!!! CLOSE THE BOOK. PUSH IT ASIDE. GO TO THE NEXT BOOK.

If you have to research books in person, write down the quote from the source and source info (author, title, publisher, etc), and then type that info directly into your course paper shell, the same as if you were doing a copy/paste. Do a “Save” when you have written all the quotes and source info from books.

Just keeping typing in your segment words, looking for info in journal/articles/online books, and pasting that info into the chapter for which it is supposed to go.

TIP: Forget about taking any quotes from newspapers or magazines. Too much spin to meet publication deadlines.

When you are done with the research, you may not know it, but at this point you should have your paper one-third to one-half completed.

The last part is actually typing your paper -- or at least what is left to be needed to be typed.