I have tried to start searching for some research papers, or anything similar to what I want to base my work on. This is always a difficult task. It involves finding the exact keywords that someone else has also used on their work to describe what it is that they were researching. Even though I am trying to find out information on what happens when student assignments are considered narrative, and also creating a student journal based on student assignments (as a demosntration of student narrative) I can't just type that into a search engine and find it (although that is obviously the first attempt).
The problem is that student assignments about narrative come up, as do lots and lots of other things about strudent assignment curriculm structure, creating a student journal as in a blog, and lots of other irrelveant things like that.
The trick is to keep searching, keep narrowing down what it is (and it is'nt) your searching for. You may think you are searching for lots of different articles or papers, the more the better, but actually, really, to start with, I only ever am searching for one.
As soon as I have one, that I can anchor the rest of my searches from then it makes it so much easier to go forwards. The artcile itself will have lots of references in it that I can use to get more papers, and by reading it, will give me lots of linguistic clues to use to find more work of a similar nature.
That is the needle in the haystack, the one thing I need to find to help me start. It helps me to reframe this part of the task as this, because it makes it less overwhelming to start with, and a bit more fun, because I am just bashing out lots of different words into google and the library search to see what I find, and then Ill just download the ones that I like the look of the abstract.
Thats my other thing, I tend to work by separating the tasks I need to do down very carefully. Im not particularly well at the moment, so I know that I can't do much reading (or to be more accurate listening). What I can do is searching, and also preparing those articles to be read by a text reader when im well enough.
Everything is separated as muich as possible so I can complete things in small chunks in small pieces of time, dpeneding on my ability at that time.
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