Selecting A Topic
Research Questions
Selecting Key Words
Using Key Words

 Keywords

Selecting keywords is a no-brainer. Often you can pull the keywords from within your research question, as shown below:

"Has global warming caused an increase in the number of hurricanes in the world?

Research tools that you will use to locate information resources often work differently. The terminology that tools such as the library catalog, online databases and the internet use varies widely. That's why it's a good idea to expand the keyword list by identifying related terms. Often this can be as simple as listing synonyms for the keywords that you've already identified.

The following example illustrates the process of identifying related keywords:

 

Keyword	Related Term
Hurricanes Global Warming World	Natural Disasters Storms Weather "The Greenhouse Effect" Environment United States East Coast Gulf of Mexico

 

 

 

 

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