CREATING A RESEARCH PLAN

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Skilled researchers develop a strategy for finding and keeping track of the information they need. Gaining experience, they improve on that strategy throughout their lifetime, particularly as new technologies change the nature of research. The following steps will help you formulate a research plan—a strategy for finding and keeping track of information to use in your speech. It’s important to quickly put this plan into action, as almost three-fourths of college students report that procrastination harms their research efforts.5