Library Tutorial | Red Deer College

Choosing a Topic

Discover... Choosing a Topic covers topic selection and how to identify keywords to search your topic.

When you have completed it, you should be able to:

broaden or narrow a topic
identify keywords for a topic
understand the difference between keyword and subject searching
use connectors and truncation in constructing a search

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Original Discover... ©2006 by Red Deer College Library. Discover... is based upon Searchpath © by the Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University, which incorporates material from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library, © 1998-2004. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Searchpath Open Publication License.