ABSTRACT
This chapter shows a systematic way to gather and sort information and introduces some time-saving tools and techniques to makes the literature search more comprehensive and faster. Word mining is a sequence of discovering high-value search terms and working through information resources to maximize the relevance of people search results to people particular theory or story, with the least waste of people time and effort. Searching library full-text databases is a lot like searching the free Web. But the library products have a number of characteristics that make searching them faster and more effective than using a typical Web search engine. A tool called proximity searching is based on the logic that when two terms are near each other in a document, the words may be conceptually related to each other in that document. The easiest way to write a literature review is by outlining a chain of reasoning based upon the theory or story.
