The federal government should establish a universal healthcare program because it creates an equitable standard of care, improves the health
of the population, and reduces the personal financial strains associated with an employer-based system.
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INFORMATION LITERACY is one of MCC's four general education goals. Information Literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate and use information effectively. In this session, you will learn how to:
1. Select appropriate search tools to identify and locate information sources.
2. Construct effective database searches.
These skills will help you find quality, appropriate resources for your research assignments.
This guide will walk you through the research process for the sample thesis statement above.
Once we have our thesis statement (1) the next steps are to identify the key concepts (2) and related keywords (3) to help us find relevant sources in the library catalog and databases.
The key concepts of our thesis statement are in red:
The federal government should establish a universal healthcare program because it creates an equitable standard of care, improves the health of the population, and reduces the personal financial strains associated with an employer-based system.
Some keywords related to those concepts:
Health care reform, national health services, health care equity, health disparities, medical care, population heath, public health, medical care costs, out of pocket medical costs
Now that we've identified some keywords, we can choose our search tools (4) and test our search (5)
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