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ENG 301: Research Strategy Worksheet Research Question (1pt) What are the best measure of happiness that college students should apply to their busy lives? Databases (2 pts) Make a list of library databases best suited to your research. In addition to the most popular databases, use the library’s database list to help you identify specialized databases connected to your field. List at least four quality databases. 1. Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) 2. Research Library (Proquest) 3. JSTOR 4. Flipster (Popularmagazine) Search Terms (4 pts) Draw on your background reading to identify useful search terms. What words do people use to describe your issue? List at least eight terms you can use in your online and database searches. For example, if I were researching political advertisements’ impact on voting, I might list the following terms: advertisements, campaign ads, marketing, propaganda, political campaigns--research, media, press, voting, and exit polling. You can browse subject terms in EBSCO and ProQuest to find the terms databases use to index the research you need. 1. studies 2.happiness 3.emotions 4.politics 5.quality of life 6. society 7.humans 8.behavior Boolean Search Strings (2 pts) Create at least four different Boolean searches that you will use to find research in databases and online. For example, I might use this search string in an advanced database search to find research on political advertisements’ impact on voting: political ads or political advertisements AND voting AND results or effects or outcomes

Happiness studies 1. and politics 2. and quality of life 3. and society 4. and behavior (*Remember, limiting your search to articles’ abstracts will further narrow your search.) Leads (4 pts) Use your background reading to make a list of possible leads, starting points for your own research. List the names of at least two people who do research in this field. You can use a focused database search to find articles they have written connected to your issue. 1. Ingelström Mats 2. van der Deijl Willem List the names of at least two research studies mentioned in other sources that you want to review. You can use a focused database or Internet search to find those sources. 1. “Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries”. 2. “Core measure analysis of the happiness evaluative characteristics using ordinal logistic regression”. List two sources cited in your research that you want to review. You can use a focused database search to find those sources. 1. “What measures justice? What justifies happiness? Emersonian moral perfectionism and the cultivation of political emotions”. 2. “Happiness at Work Scale: Construction and Psychometric Validation of a Measure Using Mixed Method Approach”. List the names of two professional or government organizations that sponsor research on your issue. 1. Walden University 2. Global Happiness Council List the names of any people you know who have expertise in this field who may be open to an interview. Specialized Journals (2 pts) Identify at least four specialized journals in EBSCOHost or ProQuest that you can search for sources.

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