1. Briefly and clearly describe your research question/problem in a sentence or two.
2. Identify key concepts for your research question/problem and list them. (Research topics will have 2-3 concepts)
3. Identify alternative keywords to describe your key concepts. (Broader, narrower, and synonyms)
·What are more general terms that might be included in my topic? Or narrower terms?
·Identify major concepts on the topic and then attach synonyms that also describe the concept
·Are there categories I'd like to exclude?
4. Use all the keywords found to construct at least 2 keyword search statements using AND, OR, NOT
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