Social Work

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Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays, Projects and Independent Studies

Identify different sources of information and link to ebooks and other top sources

Finding Articles and Key Practitioner Updates

Practitioner Updates from CareKnowledge and Community Care Inform are vital sources

Creating a search strategy

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The following pages have been designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating a search strategy.

They can be read in the order given, or if one step of the process is of particular interest to you - for example - Applying search techniques - you can go straight to that section.

• Breaking your topic into concepts

• Considering alternative keywords

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When you have broken your topic down into concepts, you can start thinking more carefully about the vocabulary that may be used for each of the concepts you have identified.

• Alternative keywords will help you to broaden your search if you are not finding very much information on your topic.

• Alternative keywords will help you to narrow your search and make it more subject specific if you are finding too much information.

The Alternative keywords video explains the process in more detail.