Think carefully about the terms you'll search for. Don't use a full sentence or question in a scholarly database. Instead, select the most important term(s) and join them with "and" or "or". See the Keyword Tutorial if you don't understand this.
Topic 1
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Topic 2
A few suggestions for search terms are:
Be creative; think of your own topic and potential keywords. Some search terms will work better in some databases than others.
The following sources are interesting, informative, and probably reliable. But they are NOT scholarly.
Newspapers and magazines are written by writers, not scholars. They may report on scholarly work, but they aren't scholarly publications. If you're seeing a lot of colour photos, click-bait, and ads - it's not scholarly. Find the actual scholarly publication they based the story on. Look for the author's qualifications - like a PhD.
Blogs and websites are not publications. They're not permanent, so they can change. Scholars don't publish papers in blogs. Their research normally requires them to publish in recognized journals. Look for a journal title, volume, issue to show that it was actually published somewhere permanent.
Bibliographies are an essential part of scholarly communication; if there isn't one, it's not scholarly.