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Only by developing a search strategy will you be able to search efficiently
and effectively. The broad steps of a search strategy are:
- Define the topic and the sort of information you require. Clarify
any concepts or definitions in the topic as necessary. Decide whether the
sort of information you require is likely to be found on the Internet, or
elsewhere.
- Identify the key concepts, which will be used as search terms. This
is the example we will research for this tutorial:
...the predicted economic impact of climate change on Australia
- For each of the key concepts, list any synonyms or alternative expressions.
These can be used to widen the search. For this topic, internet sites that
refer to "global warming" or the "greenhouse effect", rather than "climate
change" might also be relevant, but would be overlooked by just searching
on "climate change". Enter these terms in Google Advanced Search. This is
covered in detail in the next section.
- After conducting an initial search evaluate the results for relevance
and quality. If necessary, modify the original search and evaluate the new
results. You may need to repeat this last step a number of times until you
are satisfied with the results obtained.
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