Topic Formation
What are the academic subjects that might have information about your topic?
Sociology?
Psychology?
Business?
Knowing which subject databases to go to will give you better results.
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Breaking Up Your Topic with the Right Keywords
In order to search effectively, it's important to break out the main concepts of your research question into keywords.
Research question: How might feedback increase employee productivity?
Break up your research question into keywords that represent the main concepts:
- Feedback
- Employees
- Productivity
Search for each keyword, connected with an 'AND', indicating you want results that discuss all the concepts:
feedback AND employees AND productivity
In many databases, they provide three lines for you, for three different concepts:
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