Before you begin searching . . . what technique are you going to use?
- Break down your topic into key terms and phrases.
- ​Example: If you are interested in researching how nursing shortages will affect patient care in the United States, then your key terms (or keywords) will be: "nursing shortages," "United States," and "patient care."
- It is important to use quotation marks around more than one word when you want to locate resources specifically on a given phrase. Otherwise you very well will see results that include "united" and "states," but not be about the United States.
