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Keywords

What are Keywords?

  • Keywords are important words/concepts found in your research question or thesis. 
  • A quick and dirty way to pull keywords from a research question/thesis is to choose the most important nouns; all other words are irrelevant.

Using keywords to search will always retrieve more results than phrases or sentences.

You can find keywords:

How to Use Keywords

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