1. Remember your log-in username and password
2. Cite all your sources properly
3. Use the accurate database to find what you need to find (i.e., newspapers, journal articles, encyclopedia entries…)
4. Use controlled vocabulary to narrow down/expand your search and to find specific subject terms
5. Plagiarizing is bad so remember to always give credit to the original author
6. Use AND, OR, NOT to narrow down/expand your search
7. Put quotations around a specific word or phrase that you know you definitely need to find in the source
8. Do some background research on the author of the article so you can be certain that the source is reliable/resourceful
9. Use the correct search field to help narrow down your results
10. There are sites other than Google that give great results (Wolframalpha, Worldcat…)
