Try not to search your entire question at once. This won't find many useful results. The techniques below can help you plan your search.
Start by breaking your question down into individual ideas and terms - we call these keywords.
Example: Examine the concept of sustainability in festival tourism
From here, highlight what you think are the key words or concepts.
- Sustainability
- Festivals
Once you have your keywords, take a moment to decide if there are other words or phrases that mean the same thing (synonyms). Not all authors use the same words to describe the same ideas.
- Sustainability: sustainable, eco-friendly, environmentally friendly, green, corporate sustainability
- Festivals: music festival, art festival, festival sector
- Acronyms and abbreviations - CSR, corporate social responsibility
- British and American spellings - behaviour, behavior
- Terms you can write as one or two words - timeframe, time frame
There are millions of books, articles and websites available, and you won't have time to look through all of them. To help with this, you can decide on limits to your search. This can include:
For this topic, you might be interested in the following types of information:
Our Information sources page has more detail on this.
If you have chosen your own topic, it's important to start with some general searches to make sure there is information out there before you finalise it. If the topic is very specific or new, you may struggle to find enough information. If your topic is too broad, you will find too much information.