You are having trouble finding scholarly journal articles on your topic of interest. You have, however, found two interesting articles. What can you do given the “wall” you’ve seem to hit in your library search?

a. You should conclude that the topic is understudied and therefore there are no additional articles on the subject matter.
b. You should change your topic because clearly your topic is not worth pursuing.
c. You should look to the key words indicated in the two articles that you have found and use those as search terms in your library search.
d. You should consider using the bibliographies of those two articles as your primary sources of information.


Answer c,

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