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The availability of so much information also means that it is important to learn how to quickly identify whether a text is relevant to your research topic. Titles of academic texts are often very descriptive of their contents, so that is a good place to start. For example, the article from Exercise 3 entitled ‘Is altruism a genetic trait?’ is based on a research article which has the longer more descriptive title: ‘Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees’.

Exercise 6

Imagine you are looking for information to answer the essay question Assess the European Central Bank’s response to the 2008 global financial crisis. Your key word search has returned the following items. Which items do you think are relevant? Which are not? Why not?

Remember to look carefully at the essay question to identify the focus of your research. Notice how the instructions set the limits of your investigation in terms of

place

time

aspect of the topic to be discussed

1 International financial crises: causes, prevention, and cures

L.H. (2000) The American Economic Review, 2000 – JSTOR

2 The aftermath of financial crises

Reinhart, C.M. & Rogoff, K.S. - 2009 - nber.org

3 Structural causes of the global financial crisis: a critical assessment of the ‘new financial architecture’

Crotty, I (2009) Cambridge Journal of Economics. CPES

4 The regulatory response to the financial crisis

Goodhart, C.A.E (2008) Journal of Financial Stability. Elsevier

5 [BOOK] Naudé, W.A. (2009) The financial crisis of 2008 and the developing countries - econ.tu.ac.th