1. Examine your research question and identify the words that represent the main ideas. These "main idea" words can be your first search terms.
Research Question: “How do environmental protests impact deforestation?”
2. Generate synonyms, related ideas, and alternative forms for each main idea word.
Environmental
Protests
Deforestation
Whether you are searching the Internet or a database, generating effective search terms can save time, yield relevant results, and provide an opportunity to explore various perspectives on a specific topic. Generating search terms is a dynamic and iterative process. As you search, you may find it necessary to modify or add new search terms to your list.
Before searching, Identify keywords related to your topic...
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While searching...