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Chapter 2
Finding and Mapping Sources of Information
Chapter 2 suggests steps to make the reading tasks involved in conducting research as efficient as possible:
• Exploring preliminary sources,
• Framing a research idea,
• Collecting scholarly evidence related to your research idea, and
• Constructing a literature map.
The search for scholarly literature is a process of identifying, describing, and evaluating relevant literature to form a collection that guides your research. In the process, you progress from having voiced a concern to specifying a narrowed research idea situated in an organized body of literature. Constructing a literature map then helps you imagine ways to address your research idea.
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