introduction: working with your topic

Welcome to Getting Started Part 1 - Working With Your Topic

When you have an assignment, you need to make sure you understand your topic, and what you are expected to do.

This part of the tutorial will help you to do this, and prepare for your information search.

At the end of the first part, Working With Your Topic, you will be able to:

• identify the keywords in a topic
• use reference sources to build background knowledge of a topic
• develop a search strategy
• combine keywords to use in a search