Keywords
10-45 min.
Students will assess the necessity of formulating a good vocabulary of relevant and connected keywords and search terms as an essential component of academic research. Students will have an opportunity to build their own keyword and search term vocabularies to incorporate into their research.
Objectives:
- Understand what keywords are and why they’re necessary
- Identify relevant keywords for their topic/question
- Brainstorm additional and alternative keywords
- Use keywords to search for sources in library database
Sample In-Class Activities
- Scattegories
- Students complete a worksheet of relevant keywords and search terms
- Class/group brainstorming of keywords for a given topic or question
- Examine a research “map” of terms to illustrate connections between keywords
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