Before you can write with authority about a topic, you need to know something about it. Educating yourself about the general concepts and technologies involved is always the first step to preparing a presentation or writing a paper. Before you start, consider these points:
Try the approaches below instead.
Encyclopedias provide topic overviews, explanations of concepts, and bibliographies for further research.
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Books can help by providing an in-depth overview of a topic that articles generally don't give you.
Here are some "canned" shortcuts into our Catalog:
(These shortcuts are just starting points using established subject headings - they're not comprehensive. Keep searching in the Catalog using desired keywords to find more.)
Each book includes an "About this book" page with basic bibliographic data like title, author, publication date, length and subject. For some books, additional information like key terms and phrases, references to the book from scholarly publications or other books, chapter titles and a list of related books.
Engineers often need to search for background information on companies. This requires a suite of specialized business resources that you can learn about via this guide:
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