PPT-Business Research Sources

The presentation will cover the availability of  business databases  and explain how to find company and industry information using eg LexisWestlaw Business Source Complete Factiva and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Constance Adamson. Business Liaison Librarian. adamsonc@queensu.ca. September 2010. Business Information. Who uses it?. Who produces it?. What’s not available – secret/proprietary. Sources of Company Info. The Webinar Will Begin . Shortly. Give Me 5: Responding to Sources Sought . and Rule . of 2. While you are waiting please . check out the Upcoming Webinars on . www.GiveMe5.com. . . Before we begin … just a few notes:. under a. MICROSCOPE. TEACHING ‘MICRO-LEVEL’ INFORMATION USE . IN FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE WRITING. LOEX | NASHVILLE | 2013. Aaron . McCollough. | Kelly Davenport | University of Michigan. You . are here. . Chapter . 15. Pages 80-83 . Aims for today. To identify ways of financing a business from Internal & external sources.. To be able to recommend and justify the most appropriate source of finance to fund the growth of different businesses. . Finding a Specific Topic: Narrowing Your Focus. The first task you face is to find a research problem worth investigating.. You DON’T want your topic to be too broad because you only have a limited amount of time to research and write your paper.. Purpose of Source. Provide background information or context . Explain terms or concepts. Provide evidence for your argument. Lend authority to your argument. Offer counterevidence and other interpretations. Why do MR?. Who does MR?. When do you do MR?. How do you do MR?. Market Research Principles. What is Market Research. ? . FAR definition:. “collecting and analyzing information about capabilities within the market to satisfy agency needs”. Goals for Today:. Each person who submitted an annotated bibliography will conference with me briefly, and I will offer a progress report based on bibliography sources. . While other students are conferencing with me, you have three options: . Robert Detmering. Coordinator of Information Literacy Services. Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville. Composition Pedagogy Workshop, January 9, 2014. Reflection. In an . ideal world. , how do your students conduct research? What kinds of . What is research?. organized study: . methodical investigation into a subject in order to discover facts, to establish or revise a theory, or to develop a plan of action based on the facts discovered.. Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management. Bootstrapping Presentation. Create a PowerPoint Presentation defining “bootstrapping”.. Research and locate 5 articles on bootstrapping companies.. To be able to recommend and justify the most appropriate source of finance to fund the growth of different businesses. . . To understand how to finance a business from Internal & external sources. Ask HISTORICAL QUESTIONS about a topic that interests them.. Do RESEARCH using books by historians and primary sources.. ANALYZE, COME TO CONCLUSIONS, AND MAKE ARGUMENTS supported by evidence.. Produce PROJECTS to present to the public.. Detail of a miniature of a hermit at work on a manuscript, from the Estoire del Saint Graal, France . (Saint-Omer or Tournai?), c. 1315 – 1325, Royal MS 14 E III, f. 6v. USING SOURCES. While it can be useful to know the difference between types of sources, just like it can be useful to know the difference between different building materials, they mainly useful because of what you can do with them. .