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Background Information

Generating Keywords


Generating Search Terms

Finding keywords in background research to develop a Search Strategy.

Good, short, video on brainstorming (4:25)


Learn to generate effective search terms for internet or database searching.
 

Narrowing Your Topic

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Narrowing your Topic

Now that you have some background information and some keywords it is time to narrow down your topic.  

  • In your background reference research did you notice the sub-topics in an entry?  These are easy ways to narrow a focus.
    • foster children > family care > kinship care
    • homelessness > veterans > Vietnam
  • Or narrow your question down in other areas:
    • psychological effects
    • sociological
    • historical
    • geographical
    • medical
    • over time
    • within a subgroup