Example: Humanities & Social Sciences

Defining keywords

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Before you start

STEP 1: STARTING out

- Recognise your need

- Think about your need

- Read about your topic

- Defining keywords

Draw mind map

Broader & narrower terms

Other spellings

Examples per faculty:

Agriculture / Sciences

Mind map

Management / Commerce

Mind map

Humanities / Social Sciences

Mind map

Education

Mind map

- Cost of information

STEP 4: Legal and ethical USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

Example: Humanities & Social Sciences


	Research problem		What is literacy?

	Key words		ability, books, human, read, write

	Broader subjects		education general education skills accomplishments attainment ability acquirement, read write

	Narrower subjects		functional literacy visual literacy computer literacy

	Synonyms		educated informed lettered enlightened

	Different spellings		literate literacy

See a mind map.

You must identify all the above-mentioned words to help you when you start your search. Using different words may retrieve different information, therefore use all possible options when you search for information.

After searches were done on the Library on-line catalogue on some of the words identified above, the following was found:


	Definition:
	Library online catalogue
	The Library on-line catalogue is a database of titles of all the books, journals and audio- visual resources available in the Library.

It is clear that you get different results from different words used in the searches. That is why it is so important to identify and follow up every possible word related to your topic.