4. Choosing Keywords

Once you have a good search question guiding your research, the next step is figuring out what keywords you'll use to search.

First, identify the key concepts in your question:

E.g. Do school lunches contribute to obesity in children?

Then, extracts the main concepts (keywords) from your question:

E.g. school lunches, obesity, children

Next, create a list of related, broader or narrower keywords that can help you achieve better results.

For example: