ENG 1A - Lyons: Getting Started with Your Research

Research databases will save you time because they can do the following:

1. Limit by:

• Type of Material: Primary Source, Scholarly/Academic and/or Peer-Reviewed, News or Trade Publication articles.
• Date
• Full Text

2. Preview summaries of articles.

3. Allow you to collect sources and keep them in a folder.

4. Email or Print pages or articles - or all items saved in your folder.

5. Cite sources in MLA, APA and Chicago styles.

Refugee Arrivals and Countries of Origin - Migration Policy Institute 

**IMPORTANT**: Always put Quotes around two or more words and up to three words!

     Ex: "Syrian Refugees" or "Middle East" OR Syria AND refugees 

• Step 1: Write your main TOPIC or SUBJECT in the center circle.
• Step 2: Connect the related issues in surrounding circles.
• Step 3: Provide detailed examples from information sources you locate during your research process to support your related issues. 

REMEMBER to consider:

• Demographic or population = Ex. refugees OR immigrants OR diaspora OR "asylum seekers"
• Geography = Ex. "North African" OR "Middle Eastern" OR Syrian OR Armenian
• Timeframe = Past [History], Present [Year?] and Future [Projection]