ENGL 128 Research Writing: Science, Engineering and Business (Wilber)

Narrow Your Topic & Collect Search Words

Narrow Your Topic &
Collect Search Words

Create a concept map as you explore

As you explore different topics, begin to create a concept map for topics that interest you most. You may not be able to fill in all the boxes below for your topic, and that's okay. You'll begin to see important highlights of your topic as you map.

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Develop Your Research Topic Checklist

Click below to download your own DEVELOP YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC CHECKLIST

Keep this checklist with you to help you ask questions that will organize your research.

Video: How to Use Keywords to Form a Research Strategy

Source: "From topic to search results in two minutes! " by Holman Library is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Learn about strategizing keywords and how databases work when searching keywords.