Here are a few - sm

I try to bookmark useful sites for easy reference later on. I rarely refer to books, they slow me down. If an electronic option is available, for drug research or medical word research, use it over books. They are much faster.

Request for sample reports from your client, especially for the difficult dictators. If available, these help a lot.

Keep mini-goals to achieve throughout the day. Keep hourly targets to achieve.

Stay away from distractions.

I use the useful tool, which you can find and read about on another post here. Here's the link,

Link

I use this for search with Google as my backup. I get words I'm looking for faster in general with it. Also, I can use onelook and do other themed, refined searches with this.

Hope these help!

Thanks Newtg! - Amber

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Third attempt at replying - sm

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Interesting. - Thanks - nm

Search tips - sleepymt

To cut out misspellings and other irrelevant stuff, add in site:*.gov with a search query. This gives you results form only .gov websites. Similiarly, you can add in site:*.org or site:*.edu instead to search across .org and .edu websites, which are reputable websites with less possibility of having errors or mispellings. The only downside to this is that it's a bit tedious to have to enter this for every search term. If you want to get around this, I'd suggest using the following link:

MT Word Seeker

This is a customized search engine, which searches a specific subset of websites. I've found the search results to contain more focused results and more search results from .gov, .org, and .edu websites. I guess this is the next best thing if you want to search across websites such as these instead of having to manually enter the search term site:*.

Another useful feature here is the refinement links found at the top of the search results pages on there, clicking on which will refine the search across a further subdivision of websites. For example, refine the search for that term to only medication websites, so you'll get results from only medication websites. Quite an useful tool to have and does cut down on research time.

If you want to access it, you'd need to use either Google Chrome or Firefox or Opera, as for some reason it doesn't open upon on Internet Explorer.

Wow, that's neat - anon

search tips - helper

Thanks for sharing - tgc