What Do You Know About Researching a Business Subject
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 Time: 12:00 AM
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When you are doing some research for looking for some information on a particular subject area, the process itself can be liken to a detective checking all his possible clues. The most important thing is to be aware of who or where your sources are coming from.
In almost all instances, your first move should be to your encyclopaedia. If you don't have an up-to-date set, there's always your public library.
In many cases using an encyclopaedia will give you at least a general overview on the subject matter. But you may be forced to check additional sources for a more detailed account.
Thus, your next move should be to books that have been written on the subject. The subject and title sections of the card catalogue or the bound volumes of computer print outs in most public libraries will give you plenty of listings.
After you have chosen a number of books to conduct your background information on, check out the magazines that are either directly related to your subject or those that might be carrying articles on your subject, in many cases you will find that magazines will provide you with a more up-to-date and timely information that your average book.
To check out information on your subject in magazines, look in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Under subject and author headings, the complete collection of this guide will list articles printed in magazines since the turn of the century. The Suggestions for Use section will instruct you on how to read the codes under each heading. If you can't find your subject listed, think of similar subjects that might be related.
If your subject area is part of a specific field of study there may be a special information source that will help you. Among these special sources or indexes you will find: Business Periodicals Index, Art Index, Education Index, Customers Index, Humanities Index, Biological and Agricultural Index, Social Science Index and Applied Sciences and Technology Index. You will also find a Popular Periodicals Index which essentially lists articles that have featured in current popular magazines.
You'll also find that most newspapers are veritable goldmines of reference material. Most of the big city newspapers have computerized indexes. Several of the special national newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal also have reference indexes.
Without a doubt the New York Times Index is most certainly the most complete. In these newspapers indexes, people and subjects are listed alphabetically with the page number, date and usually with the number of columns that are devoted to that particular story. All you'll have to do to acquire this information is stop by your local newsagent and tell them the kind of information that you're seeking, and ask them if they can help you in locating the information.
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Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of Top Affiliate Programs
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