HUMA 1301 - History's Mysteries Assignment - Fall 24 - Pope: Searching

Use KEYWORDS to search - not sentences!

Keywords are the most important words in your topic.

Example topic: Do video games make teenagers violent?

Keywords:

• "video games"
• teenagers
• violence

Truncating a keyword or keywords can expand your search by finding variations of the word root.

Usually and asterisk symbol is used:

*

"video gam*"

teen*

violen*

When trying to come up with keywords, consider:

• Using synonyms
• Using broader terms
• Narrowing the search with other appropriate terms
• That the defaults of the search tool may not be as you expect; words may be searched as a phrase
• Looking at the indexing terms of search results that are good matches

Keyword Generator

This "generator" from UT Libraries is designed to help students think about the essential parts of their topic, identify additional terms, and construct a search statement.