Once you have a good research question, you can use it to brainstorm keywords.
Keywords are the terms you use to search for books, articles, and other sources in library databases, book catalogs, and the free web.
Let’s use a research question about automation.
Here the main ideas of the question are underlined.
To help you generate keywords, place each idea from your research question into the column of a table, and come up with broader, narrower, and alternative terms for each idea:
|
Idea 1: WORKPLACE AUTOMATION |
Idea 2: JOB OPPORTUNITIES |
Idea 3: UNITED STATES |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Broader terms |
Technology |
Jobs Employment |
North America |
|
Narrower terms |
Robots Automated call systems Automated manufacturing |
Unemployment Workforce development |
East coast |
|
Alternative terms |
Artificial intelligence |
Vocational schools |
Industrialized nations |
Practice finding broader, narrower, and alternative terms below: