Plan Your Search Strategy

Get better search results by starting with a plan.

After defining your topic and questions, the next step in the research process is to develop a search strategy.

Your search strategy will depend on the type of information source you plan to use:

• For print and electronic sources, identify keywords and concepts within your topic to use as search terms.
• For electronic sources, you also need to know how to combine keywords to build a search string.

Doing this now will make your search more efficient and save time.

Next => Let's learn how to identify keywords and concepts.