Understand the assignment:
Is it a 5-minute presentation or a 15-page paper? Do you need to find everything about the topic or just enough about one area to explain it to someone else? Asking yourself these kinds of questions can help you determine what types of sources you are looking for.
Do you need recent information? Do you need primary sources? Do you need data sources?
If the due date is less than a week away, you’ll need to focus on resources that our library has. If you have more time, you’ll be able to request articles and books through Interlibrary Loan.
Ways to look for ideas when brainstorming a topic:
(information from https://www.grinnell.edu/academics/libraries/students/research/choosing-topic and and https://libguides.mit.edu/select-topic)
Generating Keywords
What is your Research Question?
What are the main concepts in your Research Question?
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What are some synonyms (or related terms) for those concepts and your topic?
Concept 1.
Concept 2.
Concept 3.
Work together with your partner to try to help each other generate other keywords.