In Google, we can type in a question and get millions of results in just .002 seconds, but a database does not work like that. When searching within a database, we need to break up our research topic or question into main concepts to find what we really need.
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My Topic:
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Concept #1
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Concept #2
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Concept #3
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Concept #4
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Concept #5
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Synonyms or Related Terms
For my topic, you need to fill-in what you want to research. This can be a research question or short phrases/questions.
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My Topic: Human Trafficking - how did it begin? How does one find the victims? Focus on United States. OR How many teenagers have been the victim of human trafficking in the United States and what is being done to prevent this? |
We must break out our research into main concepts. What are the main keywords from the My Topic box?
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Concept #1 Human Trafficking |
Concept #2 History
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Concept #3 Victim
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Concept #4 Identify
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Concept #5 United States
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For each concept, we must fill-in any synonyms or related terms to the concept above it. We can do a Google search to find more synonyms for any term. **Main goal from this section is to only write down those terms which you like. For example, for history, I could write past, historical, origin or even background, but "day of old" comes up too. I don't like the term "days of old," so I won't use it.
Synonyms or Related Terms
| Sex trafficking | past | victimization | identification | America |
| Modern day slavery | historical | injured person | screening | US |
| Modern slavery | origin | USA | ||
| Forced slavery | background | |||
| Sexual exploitation |
Can you have more concepts? Yes, I could also narrow my topic by looking at just teenagers, which would add one more concept.
Can you have less concepts? Yes, depending on your research you might have three or four and that is okay.
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