Research methods session 1
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Research methods Session 1 Planning your search strategy Kirsty Bower Academic Librarian [email protected]
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- 1. Research methods Session 1 Planning your search strategy Kirsty Bower Academic Librarian [email protected]
- 2. Identifying keywords 1. Break your topic into two or three main ideas 2. Think of keywords and synonyms for these ideas For example
- 3. Defining your question : breaking it down "Consider the issues concerning food security in Kenya
- 4. Defining your question : keywords and synonyms Food security Kenya Food safety East Africa Food supply Kenya* Food insecurity
- 5. Keyword construction : truncation terror* terror terrorism terrorist develop* develop developments development developing *
- 6. Keyword construction : wildcards and phrases Wom?n woman women organi?ation organisation organization ? climate change arab spring
- 7. Boolean: Combining keywords water security AND Sub-Saharan Africa water security sub- Saharan Africa" AND and OR
- 8. Boolean: Combining keywords water security AND Sub-Saharan Africa AND climate change water security Climate change sub- Saharan Africa"
- 9. Boolean: Combining keywords (war OR conflict) War Conflict
- 10. Inclusion and exclusion criteria Decide on the time span for example, are you researching a specific event in the past or do you only want very up-to-date information? Limit to Peer reviewed journal articles? Do you want to limit your search to a certain geographical area or country?
- 11. Summary Planning Keywords and alternative search terms * truncation searching phrase searching ? Wildcard searching Boolean operators And and OR Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- 12. Help? [email protected] 0113 8121104