Search Terms

Use your thesis statement or research question to extract search words and phrases that you can enter into book and article databases. For example:

Research question: "What are the possible nutritional health risks of feeding bioengineered foods to infants and children?" Take words from the question to form concepts like this:

  • Concept 1: health risks
  • Concept 2: bioengineered foods
  • Concept 3: nutrition
  • Concept 4: infants and children

Your previously entered your broad topic as:

You previously entered your 2 to 3 subtopics as:

3.3 What is your thesis statement or research question? What questions do you want to ask about it? What do you want to tell others about your topic?



3.4 Extract 3 to 4 searchable terms from your statement or question like the example above illustrates. List them here: