First Steps In Academy: First Steps

Before starting the search, several important steps must be taken:

• Choose the topic for your assignment
• Choose important keywords relating to your topic
• Find relevant databases in database search at 
• Search the databases using the keywords
• Find and save the relevant articles for your assignment. You can use RefWorks - reference ​management tool

• Book and Edited Book:

A book is an item written by one or more writers. An edited book is usually dedicated to a specific topic and holds a variety of articles or chapters relevant to that topic from a variety of writers.

• Academic Article and Popular Article:

An Academic Article is an article published in an academic, peer-reviewed journal (the article was read and examined by researchers specializing in the same field). Academic articles are written in formal language and should be accompanied by a bibliography at the end of the article. There is no need to number the bibliographies.

Popular articles are published in newspapers or magazines. These articles are usually not peer-reviewed and don’t have a bibliography.