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Effective search planning

Planning is the key to successful research.

  • Planning directs your research and enables you to develop strategies to systematically organise and record information, ultimately saving time and reducing frustration by keeping your search for information focused.
  • It ensures your literature search is comprehensive.
  • Facilitates the process of recording or documenting information searching and strategies over time.
  • Prompts you to think critically about your topic and can contribute to the quality of your thesis, article or literature review.

The resources listed below outline helpful preliminary steps in preparing to search the literature, and provide tips and strategies to help ensure your search is successful.

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