How to do research for your essay

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The biggest hurdle that you will face when preparing to write an essay is not coming up with an outline but the humungous data that you will find online.

It is important to know how to parse this data. There are some tips on how to research for your essay online:

1. Use only most relevant material that you find.
The most relevant links are usually the ones that you find in the top five searches or the first page of google.

2. Try to stick to academic or journal sources on your topic.
Immediately down the first two links, you may find videos. Most of these videos are sub-par. Therefore click on newspaper articles. Some good newspapers to follow are Express Tribune and Dawn.

3. Click only on the links that seem to contain the exact information that you are looking for.
For example, if you see two articles that both talk about digital transformation but one of them is from an international source, then choose the local source of newspaper if the question pertains to Pakistani context.