- APA Citation Style Guide
* APA Style electronic resources (official)
* APA Formatting and Style Guide (The Owl at Purdue)
- MLA Citation Style Guide
What is your research topic or research question(s)? Generally, a research starts with a general topic in which you are interested. For example, you may be interested in one of following topics:
If you need more background information about a topic, you can find reference resources via:
OneSearch (Filter your results by Resource Type "Reference Entries")
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
In the meantime, you may need to think about what research question(s) you may present based on the topic. To formulate a research question about your topic, you may need to read more literature relevant to your topic.
To find literature or resources (i.e., scholarly articles, newspaper articles, e-books, etc.) relevant to your topic, you can do a brainstorm to generate some keywords for searching. In addition to the concept(s) of your topic, the keywords can be the terms related to the concept(s) in your topic, for example:
** Tips – take notes to gather keywords when you're brainstorming, reading and searching.
** Research guides for Industry/Company Research
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