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After you evaluate your resources and make any needed changes, you can do a final check to see if your research covers the research question. If it does not, you need to go back to your search strategies and edit your search more.
Click here to go to the Developing Key Terms page.
If you have answered the research question, click here to move on to citing your sources.
Click here to go back to the Flowchart Home page.