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Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers

This book, Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers, is intended to expand experiential learning course offerings for undergraduate students through a series of interactive modules. The developed resource includes seven independent modul

Topic 4: Building a Search Strategy

In the following video, you will learn how to build effective search strategies. This involves choosing search terms and using Boolean operators.

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Summary

In this module, you learned why journal articles are an important source of information for engineering research. You acquired strategies for reading a journal article using your understanding of the typical structure of an article and using a three-pass approach. You also learned where you can find articles, and how to build a search strategy, . Now you’re ready to start exploring the journal literature and discovering the exciting research that’s being done.  

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[1] S. Keshav, “How to read a paper,” SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 83–84, Jul. 2007, doi: 10.1145/1273445.1273458.

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