CA 112: USING KEYWORDS

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Concepts, ideas, and words can have many different definitions or interpretations.
Example:

What do you want to know about cancer? Keywords can help you by narrowing your topic to specific subject-related terms. If you are doing a paper on the Zodiac sign "Cancer" your search strategy in an academic database might be:

If you are doing a paper on breast cancer treatment your search strategy might be:

To choose keywords or descriptive phrases many databases have special tools such as:

Look at database menu bars and help screens to note these special features.

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