HSCI 438: International Health

Welcome to the HSCI 438 library research guide. The guide is designed to help you locate, evaluate and use a variety of resources for your research and assignments. 

Remember, always ask your professor about format related issues!

To navigate through the guide use the tabs on the left-hand side.

1. Once you have chosen a topic, write it down in the form of a question or brief statement:
   • What is the relationship between SAT scores and college success?
2. Pull out the keywords and phrases that are most specific to your topic:
   • "SAT scores" and "college success"
3. Take those keywords and phrases and brainstorm related terms, concepts or synonyms
   • SAT scores > "scholastic aptitude test" or "college admission test"
   • college > "university" or "higher education"
   • success > achievement
4. Formulate a search strategy using boolean search, wildcards, phrases, etc.
   • (SAT OR "scholastic aptitude test") AND (college OR universit*) AND (succe* OR achieve*)

• Narrow your focus to formulate a research question
• Brainstorm related keywords and concepts
• Reference resources can help you select and narrow your topic
• Can you narrow your topic to a specific
  • Time period?
  • Event?
  • Geographical area?
  • Race, ethnicity, gender, or age group?