Search Engines and Keyword Searches

If your instructor asked you to research a topic, what would you do first? You may start by thinking about the topic for a few minutes to figure out what it is that you want to learn about that topic.

For each of the topics listed below, make a list of the words that come to mind when you think of those topics. For instance, for "buffalo," you might think "animal, brown, large." Often, you might find that such words may be just the place to start when you conduct research.