Now identify your key words: For example: can inequalities in health be overcome’? ‘How Key words: Inequalities health overcome Brainstorming Write down your key words as headings with plenty of room around each one everything you can think of about your topic in relation to these headings. You can draw arrows between any ideas that link together If you need to, use a dictionary or Thesaurus Example of brainstorming: How can inequalities in health be overcome? Social class/behaviour ill-health tackling/tackled Poverty/unemployment health care eradicate/eradicated Gender reduce/reducing What type of information do I need/ A definition so you can understand your main concept dictionary – An overview of the topic so you can identify key issues Books from the library – (Ask library staff for help) A review of recent debates journals, newspaper articles (library, internet) – Statistical data to back up your arguments websites – (E.g. National Statistics/community profile sites, www.gov.uk) researching! Library catalogue: books/official reports and publications/journals Internet: authoritative/scholarly/official websites Online newspaper articles Online journal articles try searching through Athens not heard of Athens? Ask the library staff – – how to go about setting up an Athens account. *Make sure that you keep the reference details of whatever you intend to quote or paraphrase as finding them later could be very time consuming or even impossible. Next step: putting it all together For help with essay/assignment/report writing, etc. please see the menu on the Home page.
Now identify your key words: For example: ‘How can inequalities in health be overcome’? Key words: Inequalities health overcome Brainstorming Write down your key words as headings with plenty of room around each one everything you can think of about your topic in relation to these headings. You can draw arrows between any ideas that link together If you need to, use a dictionary or Thesaurus Example of brainstorming: How can inequalities in health be overcome? Social class/behaviour ill-health tackling/tackled Poverty/unemployment health care eradicate/eradicated Gender reduce/reducing What type of information do I need/ A definition so you can understand your main concept – dictionary An overview of the topic so you can identify key issues – Books from the library (Ask library staff for help) A review of recent debates – journals, newspaper articles (library, internet) Statistical data to back up your arguments – websites (E.g. National Statistics/community profile sites, www.gov.uk) researching! Library catalogue: books/official reports and publications/journals Internet: authoritative/scholarly/official websites Online newspaper articles Online journal articles – try searching through Athens – not heard of Athens? Ask the library staff how to go about setting up an Athens account. *Make sure that you keep the reference details of whatever you intend to quote or paraphrase as finding them later could be very time consuming or even impossible. Next step: putting it all together For help with essay/assignment/report writing, etc. please see the menu on the Home page.
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