Research Guides: UWP 101: Advanced Composition (Bright): Information Research Framework

Information Research Framework

Be strategic about your research. Consider these questions:

Topic/Research Question

What do you already know? What do you want to investigate?

Sources

What types of information would inform your thinking?

Search Tools and the Sources they include:

Sources	Search Tool
Books and book chapters	UC Library Search (Advanced Search UC Davis Libraries)
General audience articles	Databases (via Research Guides)
Scholarly articles	Databases (via Research Guides)
Open web content	Commercial search engines (e.g., Google, DuckDuckGo)

Watch these videos to learn more:

What's the Deep Web? And Why the Library? [2:25]
CC-BY-NC: John M. Pfau Library, California State University, San Bernardino
Inform Your Thinking: How is Your Information Created? [3:47]
CC-BY-NC: Oklahoma State University Library
Source Types [2:17]
CC-BY-NC-SA: University of Kansas Libraries

Search

What has been published in credible sources?

Analyze & Refine

Are you finding too much or not enough information? Which search terms and platforms are most useful? Has what you have discovered from your research changed the way you are framing your question? Revision is an integral part of the research and writing process!