Week 9: Chapter - Search Strategies

Please read the following chapter from Introduction to College Research. The book will open in a new tab. Use the "Next" link in the bottom-right corner to read each page until you reach the chapter conclusion.

Chapter: Search Strategies Links to an external site.

Questions to consider while reading:

  • How do we break a research topic into an effective combination of keywords and phrases for searching?
  • How can we avoid confirmation bias when choosing our keywords?

Creative Commons by 4.0 attribution image  This reading was excerpted from Introduction to College Research (Links to an external site.) by Walter D. Butler (Links to an external site.), Aloha Sargent (Links to an external site.), and Kelsey Smith (Links to an external site.), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Links to an external site.).